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Here Are The Five Best Taco Spots In Sunset Park

Taco TrioWhen it comes to Central American food — particularly Mexican cuisine — Sunset Park is something of a mecca for Brooklyn. Tacos, perhaps the most iconic of all Mexican dishes abound in our lovely neighborhood. The options are endless though, and choices are hard, so we’ve narrowed down the list

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Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

Perp Walk. [L-R] Bunny Hirsch, Roger Clark, and Joe O’Carroll (Photo courtesy of Perp Walk)After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our

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Only One Local Spot Makes Yelp’s List Of Top Brooklyn Eats

We love the Breakfast Gnocchi at Krupa Grocery. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Kensington BK)We always take Yelp reviews with a grain of salt, but it is still one of our go-to ways to find a new place to eat in an area we aren’t familiar with. This week,

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7 Reasons To Love 7th Avenue Donuts

Vanilla-frosted donut (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)If you’ve never stepped into 7th Avenue Donuts [http://www.7thavenuedonutsanddiner.com/], the 24-hour diner and donut shop at 324 7th Avenue (between 8th and 9th Streets), you’re missing out — but that’s cool. more donuts for us. Still, we want

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The 5 Best Spots For Fried Chicken In Fort Greene & Clinton Hill

SoCo’s fried chicken and red velvet waffle (Photo by quay_flea [https://instagram.com/p/5nCFFaoJ44/])When it comes to comfort food, nothing gets our stomachs rumbling quite like the thought of perfectly crunchy, decadently juicy fried chicken. And lucky for us, we’ve got several amazing options in

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The Farm On Adderley Named One Of NYC’s Best Farm-To-Table Restaurants

Photo via The Farm on Adderley [https://www.facebook.com/thefarmonadderley/photos/pb.30608530693.-2207520000.1428332847./10153896232510694/?type=3&theater] The Farm on Adderley [http://www.thefarmonadderley.com/] (1108 Cortelyou Road) is no stranger to accolades. Chef Tom Kearney has been hailed as one of Brooklyn’s top sommeliers [/blog/

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10 Best Drinks To Warm Up With In Fort Greene And Clinton Hill

Photo courtesy of Cafe Paulette [http://www.cafepaulette.com].If there’s any upside to the freezing cold temps and icy winds we’ve been getting (besides the fun scarves and hats that are literally in season), it’s the fact that now we can warm up with some really

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John’s Deli, Lioni’s Are The Places To Go For Brooklyn’s Best Sandwiches

Source: Lioni Italian HeroesTwo Bensonhurst delis are slinging some of the best sandwiches in Brooklyn, according to CBS News’ latest “Best of” list. John’s Deli (2033 Stillwell Avenue) and Lioni’s (7803 15th Avenue) both made the cut in the unranked list of eight best sandwiches [http://newyork.cbslocal.

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Gothamist Names Steeplechase One Of The Ten Best Coffee Shops In NYC

There are hundreds of places to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee in NYC, a good chunk of which are in our fair borough of Brooklyn–but if you had to pick the 10 best, which would you choose? For their part, Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2014/03/12/

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The Best Ditmas Park Grub We Ate In 2013

From sweets to soup, aged cheese to eggs, we spent a great year eating our way across the neighborhood–and we’re wildly excited about continuing to do so in 2014. Here’s what we were lucky enough to chow on in 2013: Lunch The momos and soup at Cafe

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Village Voice Names Di Fara, Totonno’s The Two Best Pizzerias In New York City

Source: DiFara.comI suppose it hardly ranks as news anymore when Midwood’s Di Fara Pizza and Coney Island’s Totonno’s make a New York City top-10 pizza list, but it’s still worth a mention here anyway. Village Voice is the latest [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/

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The Best Bensonhurst Pizzerias, According To Our Readers

Mama mia, what a pizza! We were looking for someplace new to grab a slice last week, so we turned to our Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/BensonhurstBean?fref=ts] and Twitter [https://twitter.com/bensonhurstbean]readers to find out what they thought the best pizzerias in the area are.

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Bare Buns: Baked Pork Bun Off – The Bite

THE BITE [/tag/the-bite/]: This week the Bite breaks new ground and lets you take a peak into the sausage factory. Usually we spend the week sampling various foods for the Bite and try to only bring you the best the neighborhood has to offer. Today, we bring four of

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Village Voice Spotlights Yiasou, Liman As Two Of City’s Best Seafood Spots

Source: Village VoiceThe venerable Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema has again turned his gaze to Sheepshead Bay’s waterfront, praising its rich seafood options and calling two of our seafood restaurants among the city’s best. The list of “10 Best Bargain Seafood Restaurants [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/

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Five Stories To Expect In 2011

Budget cuts will cause major Sanitation problems in 2011. (Photo by Paypaul) Heading into 2011, there are already some hints to which issues will drive local news coverage throughout the year. Here’s what we think will be the major focus for the next 365 days. Sanitation Yes, we’re

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Five Things We’d Love To See In 2010

As the third and final part of our year-end package, we’ve created a wishlist of things we’d like to see in 2010. This list could be a lot longer than five items, but we thought it best to stop there and let you add your own in the