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What The Cluck? Did You Lose A Chicken?

PARK SLOPE – Not to ruffle your feathers, but a young chicken was founding clucking around Park Slope. Now, it’s in Nikki Burst’s home waiting for its owner. It started off like any ordinary day. Burst was walking down 6th Avenue toward the Park Slope Library branch to pick

Food & Drink

Dining Review: Cody’s Is Totally Cromulent

The NY Mets are my favorite squadron. (Courtesy BKLYNER/Justin Fox)You know what’s great? The World Series (and also #trendpieces.) You know what else is great? Drinking beer and eating food while watching professional sports. I wanted a pub that had plenty of screens, decent grub, and wouldn’

Food & Drink

Puerto Viejo: A Very Happy Hour

(Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Ever go on a kick? The Elena Ferrante scandal [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-unmasking-of-elena-ferrante] has me devouring her oeuvre all over again. Meanwhile, a visit to Cultura [/blog/2016/09/28/cultura-pan-latin-cooking-mixes-cultures-finds-flavors/] tossed me onto a different kind of kick, where I’

Food & Drink

Cultura Pan Latin Cooking Mixes Cultures, Finds Flavors

Cultura is new to the neighborhood. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox) Sometimes, you don’t know what you are looking for until you find it, and the only way to spot it is by searching for something new. The menu at Cultura Pan Latin Cooking [http://www.culturapanlatin.com/

Food & Drink

Under The Radar: The Search For A Good Indian Place

How new can an old reliable be? (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Everyone has an under-the-radar favorite restaurant. It’s usually a nondescript storefront with not too many seats and a steady delivery business, right? Kitchen Grill Indian Restaurant [http://www.kitchengrillindian.com/] (914a Fulton Street between Washington Avenue

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El Toro Is A Strong, Steady Mexican Standby

The starting lineup. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)I have a few [/blog/2016/06/22/praise-working-slice/] go-to [/blog/2016/07/06/deniz-comfort-food-med/] places in Fort Greene, and one of them is El Toro. El Toro Taqueria [https://www.facebook.com/El-Toro-Taqueria-558178890929639/?fref=ts] (89 Fort Greene Place between

Food & Drink

Gassed Up Gastronomy: The Carts And Trucks By Atlantic Terminal

(Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)It was lunchtime and I was on the move. I was exiting the Atlantic Avenue station [/?s=atlantic+avenue+station] by the Barclays Center [/?s=barclays] and I wanted something different. There they were: the trucks and carts outside of the LIRR [/?s=LIRR]

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Mullane’s Delivers In The Clutch

Avid sportsball fans. (Courtesy Instagram/MullanesBK) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BG3CAKqrux6/]Sports are prone to cliché, so it’s fitting that sports bars are, too. Older pitchers invariably have guile [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdjgdb-OxY8], draft picks always have tremendous upside potential [http://espn.go.com/espn/

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Pequeña Comes Up Big

Happy hour, you say? (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)You know those places that you always walk by and think “oh, I need to try that place one of these days”? Where you see people laughing and eating plates of enticing food? Pequeña is one of those for me.

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There’s A(nother) New Food Hall Coming To Fort Greene

Everybody loves ramen. (Courtesy Instagram/Gotham West Market [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFwZFESxBAk/?taken-by=gwmarket].)Epicureans rejoice: there’s a new food hall coming to Fort Greene. Gotham Market at the Ashland, brought to you by the purveyors of Gotham Market West [http://gothamwestmarket.com/] in Hell’s Kitchen,

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The Mac Is Back: The Mac Shack’s Innovation Inspires

Things are not what they seem. (Courtesy Adam Rabiner)Clinton Hill’s Mac Shack [/?s=mac+shack] doesn’t really look like a shack, but this unassuming and cozy restaurant, at 901 Fulton Street between Clinton Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue, has found a faithful following and one of their owners

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National Remains A Stalwart For Thai Comfort Food

Sometimes comfort food is all you want. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.) Thai food is something my parents never would have eaten, but it’s become comfort food for me and most of my friends. What is it about Thai that makes us seek it out after a long

Animals

The Freshest Turkey In Brooklyn: Inside Bensonhurst’s Live Poultry Markets [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ntiRKW_Yw When walking down New Utrecht Avenue, if you listen closely, you can hear the unmistakeable squawking of live turkeys. The racket emits from a tiny shop near 81st Street, right across the street from the now-shuttered Waldbaums supermarket [/key-food-renews-interest-new-utrecht-waldbaums/], In Bensonhurst, there

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Max’s Chicken & Seafood Opens At 967 Coney Island Avenue

Max Raja, the owner of Max’s Chicken & Seafood at 967 Coney Island Avenue.Thanks to neighbor Brent Cox, we found out that Max’s Chicken & Seafood [http://www.maxschickenandseafood.com/] opened this past Friday at 967 Coney Island Avenue, by Newkirk Avenue, in the space that previously was Famous

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Max’s Chicken & Burger Coming To Former Famous Pita Space At Coney Island Avenue & Newkirk Avenue

Photo by Daniel X MatzAfter the city Department of Health closed Famous Pita [/blog/food/doh-shuts-famous-pita-operating-expired-food-service-establishment-permit] , at the corner of Coney Island Avenue and Newkirk Avenue, for operating with an expired food service establishment permit earlier this month, neighbors noticed the windows were papered up – and now we’ve learned

Bite of the Week

Bite Of The Week: Chicken From Wangs

Since Wangs opened about a month ago [/blog/food/wangs-brings-asian-spin-on-chicken-to-union-street], the tiny take-out joint has been serving up an Asian spin on Southern chicken at 671 Union Street near 4th Avenue to a lot of enthusiastic customers — so many people have been stopping by to try it out, in fact,

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Anyone Lose A Chicken?

Did your feathered friend fly the coop? A woman named Helen found a chicken nearby yesterday, and she’s hoping that the owner, or someone who has the space to take the clucker in, can help. She posted to the Just Food City Chicken Meetup board [http://www.meetup.com/

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Chicken On The Lam! Plucky Gal Rescued On 23rd Street

In other news, Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights reported earlier this week that a chicken [http://www.ccgreenwoodhts.com/chicken-ala-kings/] made a break from one of the local slaughterhouses, and found herself on 23rd street. Within 24 hours, the awesome Sean Casey [http://www.nyanimalrescue.org/] came and relocated her

breeds

South Slope’s Tamara Staples Introduces the Magnificent Chicken

Think all chickens are like the ones bock, bock bocking on Old MacDonald’s farm? Think again. Last month, South Slope photographer Tamara Staples published her second book, The Magnificent Chicken [http://prettychicken.com/The-Magnificent-Chicken], which spotlights some of the more unique breeds of poultry. Tamara sat down with us

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Oh for the Love of Chickens

It seems like every paper got their feathers ruffled over the weekend about the eight new egg-laying chickens at the Warren/St. Marks Community Garden [http://wsgarden.org]. The hens were brought to the garden earlier this month from their warm weather home on Governor’s Island, with plans to

Butchers

Whatcha Doin With That Ax, Hipster?

Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_portrait.jpg] Nothing says autumn in New York like crisp temperatures, falling leaves and…chicken beheading? That’s right, Park Slope, if you’re traveling up to New Paltz this October for some tasty apples, why not plan on

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El Mexicano Restaurant Y Panaderia Mexicana, Chicken Enchiladas Mole – The Bite

Photo: Erica ShermanTHE BITE [/tag/the-bite/]: Mexican food is sprouting, slowly but surely, in the neighborhood. And they’re taking an interesting path into the food scene. Don’t look for traditional “restaurants.” Look instead to the back of bodegas, like El Jarochito [ /el-jarochito-t…nitas-the-bite/ ‎], or, strangely enough, in doughnut

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Bensonhurst Kitchen: Herb Roasted Chicken

Walk into any supermarket and you’ll see pre-cooked rotisserie chickens lined up in neat little plastic domes like some kind of dystopian shrine to deceased poultry. If you’re going to be a real home cook, the first thing one must realize is that these ready-to-eat birds, while convenient,

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Bensonhurst Kitchen: Fresh Spinach & Beet Salad With Chicken

During the summer months, many kitchens simply get too hot to use the oven or even the stove. That’s why this is actually a great time to start eating lighter, healthier and delicious meals made with a minimal amount of cooking that can be done well in advance. Here’