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Food & Drink

March 2016 Slope Eats & Drinks: What Opened, What Closed, And What’s Coming Soon

Applewood’s closure announcement saddened many. Their cauliflower gratin set over a carrot purée with pan roasted veggies was on their menu last summer. (Photo via Applewood [https://www.facebook.com/146263862119839/photos/pb.146263862119839.-2207520000.1457039994./862338713845680/?type=3&theater] )It may be just a few months into

Business

Gala Fresh Farms To Open On Ocean Avenue This Week

The Gala Fresh Farms in Baldwin, NY.(Photo: Gala Fresh Farms [https://www.facebook.com/GalaFresh/photos/a.895391630519773.1073741828.828227910569479/960257004033235/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Gala Fresh Farms, the ‘upscale’ grocery that last year bought the floundering Ocean Avenue Waldbaum’s [/three-quarters-of-ocean-avenue-waldbaums-workers-could-lose-jobs-due-to-ap-bankruptcy/] , is expected to open for business

Bensonhurst

Wahlburgers To Host Series Premiere Viewing Party At Coney Island Location

(Photo: Wahlburgers Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/photos/pb.1487982234809494.-2207520000.1456961491./1663025207305195/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)The Coney Island Wahlburgers [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/?fref=ts] — which opened last summer [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/08/after-two-month-delay-wahlburgers-opens-in-coney-island/] to immediate fanfare – is hosting a rooftop viewing

Food & Drink

Wahlburgers To Host Series Premiere Viewing Party At Coney Island Location

(Photo: Wahlburgers Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/photos/pb.1487982234809494.-2207520000.1456961491./1663025207305195/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)The Coney Island Wahlburgers [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/?fref=ts] — which opened last summer [/after-two-month-delay-wahlburgers-opens-in-coney-island/] to immediate fanfare – is hosting a rooftop viewing party for the season debut of

Food & Drink

Dining Review: Insa Offers Elegant Korean Barbecue With A Generous Helping Of Karaoke

BBQ and Banchan at Insa. (Photo by Craig LaCourt)It’s a rare group of Brooklynites who can say they’re able to invite a hundred of people over for a sophisticated Korean barbecue. And perhaps even more rare — delighting in that meal, and then retiring to a room to

Business

Applewood Closes After 12 Years In The Neighborhood, Champions Of Slow Food Movement

Photo via jasond97214 [https://www.instagram.com/p/zaMZBqLHuU/?taken-at=538650&hl=en]Owners Laura and David Shea of Applewood [https://www.facebook.com/applewood-146263862119839/] (501 11th Street) announced yesterday that their restaurant has closed after 12 years. “The response has been overwhelming in the last 24 hours,” says

City Kid Corner

Where Parents Can Imbibe & Kids Can Play: Family-Friendly Bars In The Slope

Jack Fertel and his mom Simona order up some snacks at Greenwood Park. (Photo by Donny Levit/South Slope News)There are oodles of parenting manuals out there. However, an important chapter is missing from almost every single one: Where can you meet friends for a drink with your kids

Central Brooklyn

Check Out Brokelyn’s Survey Of The Best Caribbean Food On Flatbush Avenue

On the grill at the Flatbush Avenue Street Fair.We really liked Brokelyn writer William Widmaier’s recent piece on “The best of Flatbush Ave.’s deliciously cheap Caribbean food” [http://brokelyn.com/brooklyn-snackdown-caribbean-food/]. Widmaier picks out five spots that all sound great and span the Caribbean: * The Ultimate Bakery

Central Brooklyn

Madina’s Owners Will Open Two New Restaurants In Our Area

Madina Restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. Photo: Ditmas Park CornerOne of Coney Island Avenue’s most well known Indian / Pakistani restaurants is launching delicious satellites. The owners of Madina are about to open two new restaurants, one in Kensington, and the other in Borough Park, right next to Maimonides Hospital,

Central Brooklyn

From The Streets Of Mexico City To Beverley Road — Tlacoyos And More

“Tacos El Chicken” food truck on Beverley Road. Photo: Nicole LevitMore intriguing food developments in our area — this time coming all the way from Mexico City. A reader spotted and sent photos of a new taco truck — Tacos El Chicken — on Beverley Road near McDonald Avenue Thursday night, “doing a

Food & Drink

Upstart Cafe Becomes Enemy No. 1 In Manhattan Beach Over Beer & Wine Application

(Photo: Chillax Manhattan Beach Cafe [https://www.facebook.com/chillaxMBcafe/photos/pb.1103576223006858.-2207520000.1456358365./1138233606207786/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)An upstart cafe has drawn the ire of community leaders over its application to serve alcoholic drinks on a residential street in Manhattan Beach. The Community Board has submitted

Bensonhurst

Five Delicious Snackable Foods To Try At The Asian Market

Photo by Bensonhurst BeanQuite the brouhah [/cb-11-condemns-racist-rhetoric-in-waldbaums-backlash/]a unfolded this month over the sale of the New Utrecht Avenue Waldbaums [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/#.Vs4LD5MrKT9] to the Flushing-based Asian supermarket Jmart [http://www.newworldmallny.com/jmart] . Those who complain that Bensonhurst is oversaturated with Asian groceries have clearly never visited the gourmet Queens