Gowanus

Chez Sardine Introduces Brunch; The Marrow Starts Lunch Service

Chez Sardine, Gabriel Stulman's non-traditional izakaya, introduced a new brunch menu with funky Japanese-American combinations. Mushroom-baked eggs with goat cheese and ramps, miso-baked oysters, and a "Fedora burger" with smoked cheddar, cucumbers, and BBQ mayo will be served alongside funky cockt ... More >>

Honey Ear Trio

Brewmaster O'Sheiss Uses Gowanus Canal Water in His Beer

A cool frothy glass of Sheiss Weiss Dunkel Brooklyn breweries pumping out craft beers are now common enough, so it takes a new approach to cause a splash, and that is just what Sanford O'Sheiss, founder of fledgling Olde Gowanus Brewery, has done. This Stevens Institute graduate began his project ... More >>

Kale Tasting at Chez Khalessi; Sriracha Run in Bushwick

Monday, April 1 Kale-essi Tastings at Chez Khalessi Chez Khalessi, the new Game of Thrones-themed bar in Dumbo, already serves King Joffrey Juice and Sansa Screwdrivers. But the pub recently added new items to the dinner menu, and will be serving a "Kale-essi" tasting on Monday night, as a tribute t ... More >>

James Falzone's Klang

Jack DeJohnette

UPDATE: There's a Dolphin Stranded in the Gowanus Canal

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Update 4: Well, we've finally found out why no one's sending a team of divers jump into the canal and guide the dolphin to safety before it dies. They're not allowed. "Unfortunately, all we can do is watch and wait for the tide to rise, so the animal can ... More >>

All That Brooklyn Jazz

The borough is where it's at

The Gowanus Canal Cleanup Will Cost Half a Billion Dollars

The Environmental Protection Agency released its plan for cleaning up the Gowanus Canal Superfund site yesterday, and as expected, the process is going to be complicated, time-consuming, and mind-bogglingly expensive. Since its completion in the 1860s, the Gowanus has been the home of virtually eve ... More >>

A New Food and Design Market in Brooklyn

This Saturday a new market launches in Gowanus, with plans to run on girl power. Gowanus Girls will feature all-women designers and food makers, mostly from Brooklyn. The market is curated by Curious Jane, an after-school program and summer camp for girls that promotes design, collaboration and com ... More >>

Q&A, Part 1: Runner and Stone's Peter Endriss on Opening a Bakery in Gowanus, Baking at Per Se, and Working 35 Hours on a Weekend

[See More Interviews: North Fork Table & Inn's Gerry Hayden | Travis Post of Yunnan Kitchen] It's easy to eat Runner and Stone's amber-hued pretzel absently, nibbling the thin crispy arms that cross over themselves, the soft curves of the bulbous tops flecked with salt, without contemplating the Ch ... More >>

LIKE A SALTSHAKER

Nicky Da B puts the bounce in Brooklyn

Gowanus Whole Foods Officially Off the Ground

Pretty soon Brooklyn will join the Upper West Side in looking like a sterile, predictable American suburb. That's to say that Gowanus is def going to have a Whole Foods very soon -- as early as 2013 -- as a city board today gave the grocery conglomerate a key zoning variance, according to the New ... More >>

Snarky Puppy

The Bureau of Unknown Destinations Offers an Outlet for Your Cabin Fever

Even the best New Yorkers can sometimes feel a little antsy after spending too much time in the city. Perhaps this is why rich folks have their summer houses out in the Hamptons, and there is a new four-story REI in Soho trying to convince people to give hiking and adventuring a chance. Now, a new ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Littleneck

Don't clam up.​ This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema bites into bivalves at Littleneck, a Gowanus clam shack: "The most spectacular appearance of Brooklyn's iconic bivalve is on a clam roll ($16), featuring full-belly littlenecks with creamy tartar sauce and a few shreds of lettuce for colo ... More >>

Brooklyn's Littleneck Reinvents Choucroute

​Seafood choucroute--but you'll have to go to Gowanus to get it. Choucroute is a beloved Alsatian dish consisting of a vast heap of sauerkraut surmounted by a collection of sausages and smoked meats. New Gowanus clam shack Littleneck has reinvented it in spectacular fashion

NYC's Most Obscure Restaurants: Schnitzel Bar in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

​Way down below the Gowanus lurks Schnitzel Bar. We really only ever hear about a handful of restaurants out of the 50,000 that I estimate exist in the city. Even in Manhattan itself, there are vast swatches in Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, the Upper East Side, and around the fringes o ... More >>

Whole Food Gowanus Creeps Steadily Forward

A rendering of something that may one day exist.​After many, many, many months, the fabled Gowanus Whole Foods is one baby step closer to reality.

Alphabet Lounge Big Band

Crop to Cup Moves South, While Luke's Lobster Expands North

​Luke's Lobster is expanding again, this time in a northwesterly direction: per Diner's Journal, the shop is moving to a prime location at 426 Amsterdam Avenue at West 80th Street. As with their East Village location, they'll be a handful of blocks from fellow crustacean-pusher Mermaid Inn, an ... More >>

Crop to Cup Relocates to Gowanus

​A walk by Crop to Cup in Brooklyn yesterday revealed that it was the last day of operation at the Atlantic Avenue location. Just seven months after the artisanal roaster opened up shop in Brooklyn Heights, it's moving its facilities and café to Third Avenue in Gowanus. Have a restaurant tip ... More >>

Class Action Listings

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>

Natalie Merchant

'Sunday Best Presents Kenny Larkin'

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Italian Heroes

​Half of the iconic fried calamari hero from Catene Deli, Gowanus, Brooklyn. The hero represents one of the greatest accomplishments of Italian-American cooking, a method of packaging the abundance of the New World into a convenient transportable meal, one that permits options in the way it m ... More >>

'Trombone Festival Presents Jacob Garchik, Jen Baker & the Joe Fiedler Trio'

Posts of the Week

As we slide down the wormhole leading to the weekend, we pause to reflect on the best posts of this four-day week: Battle of the Dishes waged a blood sausage smackdown between Despana and Buenos Aires Steakhouse. We ranked Our 10 Best Lower East Side Restaurants. Strange Snacks of the World consi ... More >>

Union Market Opens Third Location on Court Street, Bringing More Upscale Groceries to Cobble Hill

​Whole Foods may not be coming to Gowanus anytime in the near future, but On Monday, Union Market will bring its own brand of aspirational grocery shopping to the neighborhood a few blocks north.

Agnostic Front Will Reprise Victim in Pain Live And In Person At The Bell House

​Mark your calendars for Friday, February 26, hardcore fans. And read Jason Buhrmester's splendid recent Voice feature on the record's 25th anniversary here. We are all old, yes, but we can still gather at a swank Gowanus nightclub and run into each other one more time.

TURKEY TROT

Channel your inner pilgrim . . . or turkey vulture

Brooklyn Gets Its Very Own Kurve

You've probably heard of Kurve, the futuristic Thai-fusion spot in the East Village so odd that it's prompted speculation that it's actually an art installation, not a restaurant. Well, Brooklyn has its own Kurve now, a place so strange that it's almost worth a visit just to see it. Imagine a wa ... More >>

Brooklyn Dumpster Pools Publicized, Ruined

Earlier this month, Inhabitat pushed out the story of MacroSea's Gowanus dumpster pool parties. This weekend -- cannonball! New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, WPIX, et alia are suddenly all over it. These tales of MacroSea's reclamation of ordinary trash dumpsters into sanitary swimming tanks ... More >>

TREASURE TRAIL

Spring cleaning just got a little more fun

The Governor Bans Bottled Water; Guactacular Winners Announced

Bagless vacuum cleaner inventor James Dyson has filed a US patent application for "cubist" kitchen appliances, designed to take up less space than round, jug-shaped ones. [New Scientist] Governor Paterson has signed an executive order to phase out the purchase and use of all bottled water at govern ... More >>

'Ibeam Trombone Festival'

Astroland Sign Comes Down

Coney landmarks continue to be dismantled. Here's Dietrich's Flickr image of workers taking down the Astroland sign on Monday (h/t Gowanus Lounge). Yesterday the Department of City Planning began its review of the Coney Island Rezoning Plan, including a "Wonder Wheel Way Elevation" and a six-block ... More >>

"Vile" Building Misrepresents Its Path of Destruction

Here's one of the things we love about Gowanus Lounge: They noticed advertising for a new Williamsburg real estate hideosity, 80 Metropolitan, says the builders "converted" the beloved old Dutch Mustard Factory, when the Factory was observably torn to the damn ground and 80 Met gloatingly built over ... More >>

Times Excited by Brooklyn Blogs, Which Sort of Ruins Them for Us

SEASONS CHANGE

A smorgasbord of fresh farm foods for the fall

Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are

Anti-Development Rumblings in Brooklyn

Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus

Parties on the Newtown, Gowanus: Does Nature Need Gentrification?

Yacht Club Secrets Revealed

Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

Remember the Spartans

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Close-Up On: Sunset Park

Matters of Life