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Despite the recent erratic weather patterns, I’m officially ready to warm up with soup-of-the-day specials popping up at local cafes. What better place to start than Milk and Honey on Newkirk Avenue and Westminster Road, where they debuted a new daily soup special: Creamy Asparagus with Poached Egg ($7
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Affordable and delicious: the steak taco and chicken quesadilla at La Casa de las Quesadillas. (Photo by Heather Chin/Sunset Park Voice)Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park is a veritable smorgasbord of food, flavors, and ingredients from around the world, although with an emphasis on Latin American cuisines. Among these,
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The Chicken BLT wrap comes with French Fries or a salad, but we paid extra for the sweet potato fries. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)Simple ingredients, prepared well, at affordable prices, with a smile. That’s what you are pretty much guaranteed during every trip to Clinton
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Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene FocusSpeedy Romeo [http://www.speedyromeo.com] pizzas are frequently considered among New York’s best and most sought after — so much so that even Manhattan residents are excited to get in on the action [/blog/2015/12/31/speedy-romeo-will-open-a-second-outpost-in-the-les-taste-a-preview-at-tonights-new-years-eve-party/] — but they will always be
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Sometimes all you need is a quick, no fuss, affordable bite for lunch or dinner and Lafayette Grocery and Deli’s (Lafayette Avenue) is the perfect spot. As any local knows, the corner deli boasts the usual snacks, drinks and some fresh produce, as well as a limited deli counter,
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Oxtail stew over yellow rice and kidney beans, with a side of plantains. (Photo by Fort Greene Focus.)Lunch specials at Brooklyn restaurants are generally pretty hit or miss as far as great deals go — you want the best combination of quality/bang for your buck, and also, as New
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Mom Bi Chen (right) and Jenny Chen prepare to serve a savory chicken crepe and milk bubble tea. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)It’s a full-on family business at the newly opened [/blog/2016/01/15/coming-soon-crepe-house-at-475a-myrtle-avenue-in-clinton-hill/] Crepe House (475A Myrtle Avenue), which serves savory and sweet
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Saucy By Nature owner Przemek Adolf at the store’s counter on their first day. (Photo by Heather Chin / Fort Greene Focus)This past Tuesday, September 1 was the first day of business for new 884 Fulton Street arrival Saucy [http://www.saucybynature.com/] — short for Brooklyn-based catering/former condiment
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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerAfter Dos Locos [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dos-Locos-Mexican-Bar-Grill/1575587409360750?fref=ts] , a new Mexican restaurant at 1217 Church Avenue, opened in June [/business/dos-locos-a-mexican-bar-grill-opens-on-church-avenue], we’ve been wanting to check out the recently debuted spot — and finally got a chance to recently do so for
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For $14, you get a feast of food!As the world seemed to slide into some strange alternate universe yesterday in which a November chill reigned supreme, we set our sights on something warm and spicy that would make us push aside the blankets we’d so optimistically shoved to
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There’s a lot going on at the BRIC Arts Media House at 647 Fulton Street, from video production classes and live studio interviews to art exhibits and live concerts. No surprise: all that expending of creative energy can work up quite the appetite! Fortunately, the on-site cafe, Hungry Ghost,
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The first time I ordered a sandwich from Farmer In The Deli [www.yelp.com/biz/farmer-in-the-deli-brooklyn] (357 Myrtle Avenue, at Adelphi Street) back in 2009, I didn’t know what to expect. Friends had told me that they had the best and most affordable sandwiches around, but I’m
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Perhaps it’s not such a concern in your version of an adult life, but we’ve found this issue with the majority of friends’ birthday parties in recent years: a distinct lack of cake. Plenty of booze, slightly too much spent on late cab rides home because this or
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One of the daily dishes Black Forest Brooklyn [http://www.blackforestbrooklyn.com] (733 Fulton Street between South Elliott Place and South Portland Avenue) offers on its lunch menu is flammkuchen (an Alsatian dish known in French as “tarte flambée” but known to us as a menu item we point at
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We’ve been meaning to try out dinner service at Brooklyn Commune [http://brooklyncommune.com] (601 Greenwood Avenue on the corner of Prospect Avenue) for a while, and had the chance to do so recently on a quiet Sunday evening. The service, which runs 6-9pm every day except Mondays, does
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Any Ditmas Park herbivore will tell you that meat-free options–or to be more specific, meat-free entrees with sufficient protein–are few and far between, as are actual vegan options. Things are looking up since Hartwell Vegetarian [/blog/business/at-first-bite-hartwell-vegetarian] moved in, but just before their opening this weekend, we