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Korean Soul Food Joint and Bar to Open in old Mamma Lucia’s Space on October 25

Exterior of new bar Rusty Nail. Photo by Liena Zagare.DITMAS PARK – Mamma Lucia’s will become Rusty Nail and serve Korean and Southern fusion comfort food. The team behind the farm-to-table restaurant The Farm on Adderley and the Sycamore Bar + Flower Shop have chosen Memphis Seoul to be the

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Ocean View Cafe In Brighton Beach

There are not many food places that one returns to year after year to find them as good as the time before. Ocean View Cafe in Brighton Beach is one such jewel. The unpretentious cafe-restaurant, located at 290 Brighton Beach Avenue, on the corner of Brighton 3rd Street, certainly does

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Dining Review: Get Gnarly At Park Slope’s Newest Burger Joint

Gnarly Eats. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)As I walked through the TARDIS door, I knew that the tiny, well-adorned space was something different. I quickly learned it was very good. I was seated by the window of Gnarly Eats (447 7th Avenue, between 15th Street and 16th Street) when

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Dining Review: Tom’s Restaurant Of Prospect Heights Soothes Your Soul-Quivering Self

Some institutions endure. (Courtesy BKLYNER/Justin Fox)My soul quivered, my head throbbed, and my tummy rumbled. I meandered to Tom’s Restaurant (782 Washington Avenue, between Sterling Place and St. John’s Place) on yesterday’s gray, wet morning that came after a sleepless night. Tom’s, a diner

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Come to the Grand Opening of Propellerhead (Sponsored)

Propellerhead restaurant is celebrating its grand opening this Saturday, September 10. They’ll have food and drink specials, as well as some coupons and giveaways! The restaurant opened with a soft launch in June, at 752 Coney Island Avenue, and since then they’ve really found their footing. The main

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Dining Review: A Heapin’, Drippin’, Lip-Smackin’ Fixin’ Of Soul At Butterfunk Kitchen

Crispy Deviled Eggs. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Brooklyn is home to more Southerners than you think. And it’s also home to folks who lived down South for dollops of their lives (yours truly is a former Atlantan and New Orleanian, dawlin’). Southerners love their home-cookin’, of

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Bite Of The Day: Pigging Out At The Smoke Joint

There’s something to be said for the summery connotations of hot dogs–but on the whole, this cooler weather is just begging for indulgence in some comfort food. Enter Fort Greene standby The Smoke Joint (87 South Elliott Place at Lafayette Avenue). We stopped by one recent evening to

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Bite Of The Day: Lunch Buffet From Manna’s Soul Food

In this kind of weather, we find that the absolute last thing we want to eat is a salad–and what better way to coddle ourselves through the sub-zero temperatures than with some good old fashioned comfort food? With the cold in mind (and on our face, and ears, and

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Afternoon Bite: Miso Ramen Soup And Avocado Salad From Kiku

The lid came off our bowl of miso ramen soup ($6.50) from Kiku Sushi, and it was instant love. Its red and green peppers smelled so fresh, like they had been cut right before the delivery man left with our order. The broth was light and comforting (a huge

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Comfort Food in Park Slope: Favorites from Around the World

“Comfort food is traditionally eaten food which provides a nostalgic or sentimental feeling to the person eating it.” Comfort food holds personal meaning for all of us—whether we attach it to childhood memories of Mom’s chicken noodle soup, or high holidays with Grandma’s potato latkes and homemade