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Seven Great Spots to Read Your Brooklyn Book Festival Bounty

The Brooklyn Book Festival is back this week, just in time to ease your sadness about the dropping temperatures. Reading a book in public can be a rare pleasure- but it can also be easily ruined by blasted music, too-close quarters, and overly chatty bartenders. We’ve found seven spots

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Who Closed Shop On “Day Without Immigrants”?

Restaurants across the country closed for business yesterday in a show of solidarity for “Day Without Immigrants.” Fueled by the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigration and the recent surge of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids and deportations, the boycott demonstrated how much the work and contributions of

Food & Drink

6 Park Slope Restaurants To Take Your Out-Of-Town Guests During The Holidays

Photo via Hey Hey CanteenNew York is about to get busier than it usually is, and your calendar is filling up fast. Part of the reason for the whirlwind of December has to do with friends and relatives visiting for the holidays. Whether it’s one evening, a weekend, or

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Grub Street’s ‘Absolute Best Of Park Slope’ Fails To Recognize New Restaurant Blood

Dishes at al di la’ (Photo via kconstabile)The editors of the “foodie site” Grub Street have been busy putting together lists of their faves in a series they call the “Absolute Best of New York” — covering date bars, gay dance parties, bánh mì, as well as many neighborhoods in

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Behind Bars In Brooklyn And Al Di La Join Other Local Businesses Who Maintain DOT Bike Corrals

The new bike rack at al di la. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Enjoying a Sunday Italian brunch and picking up a new bike helmet on 5th Avenue just got a lot easier. While al di la Trattoria (248 5th Avenue at Carroll Street) and Behind Bars in

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Al Di La And Behind Bars In Brooklyn Join Other Local Businesses Who Maintain DOT Bike Corrals

The new bike rack at al di la. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Enjoying a Sunday Italian brunch and picking up a new bike helmet on 5th Avenue just got a lot easier. While al di la Trattoria (248 5th Avenue at Carroll Street) and Behind Bars in

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Park Slope Brunch Beat: al di la Trattoria

Crispy Polenta Cake (photo by Donny Levit)With so many places in the neighborhood to grab a mimosa and a plate of eggs on the weekend, how can you decide which is the best spot to take your visiting in-laws or where you’ll want to sit quietly for a

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Eat Out Tuesday And Raise Money For The CHiPS Women’s Shelter

Looking to go out for a bite Tuesday evening? Consider going to one of the restaurants donating 15% of their Tuesday evening dinner checks to the CHiPS soup kitchen and women’s shelter. You can treat yourself to a nice meal and help raise money for an important community institution.

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What’s On Your List Of Essential Park Slope Restaurants?

Lobster roll at Littleneck, nom nom nom.If you had to list the restaurants that are the heart and soul of the neighborhood, the places that we just couldn’t do without, the places that help define what Park Slope is, what would they be? The Village Voice recently put

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Support Environmental Programs While Eating Tasty Grub During Dive In Gowanus

This Friday, August 15, you can eat something delicious and know that you’re helping the Gowanus Canal. The Gowanus Canal Conservancy has teamed up with several restaurants for the second annual Dive In Gowanus, an event that aims to celebrate those restaurants and bring in some environmental and community

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Affordable Extravagance: Park Slope Spots For A Leisurely Lunch

Park Slope is a destination in itself for food connoisseurs, and home to some of New York’s most celebrated and publicized restaurants. But savoring a lavish meal out doesn’t have to come with an exorbitant price tag; given the right combination of ambiance, delicious fare, attentive service, and

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Love Is in the Air: Valentine’s Dinner in Park Slope

Park Slope is a romantic town. With restaurants nestled amidst old brownstones on tree-lined blocks, our neighborhood is the perfect setting for an intimate dinner and moonlit stroll. Lucky for us hopeless romantics, we won’t have to roam far on Valentine’s Day; from Latin fusion to upscale seasonal

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Weekend Linkage: Park Slope in the News This Week

“I remember feeling grateful, and humbled, as I ate chubby little malfatti, pasta-less dumplings of ricotta and Swiss chard, naked as larvae, and sublime.” In her review of Bar Corvo, Al di Là’s new Crown Heights outpost, NYT food critic Ligaya Mishan waxes poetic on her first time at