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  • Root Hill Burger Opens Today

    In Brooklyn, Food, Gowanus, New Places 2012, Places / By / / 0 comments

    Late Monday evening Root Hill Burger announced via their Facebook page that they will finally be opening their doors today. Root Hill Burger’s build has been watched by both Park Slope and Gowanus residents as another welcone addition to 4th Avenue between President St. and Carroll Street. For neighbors it’ll be another happy staple for those that love Root Hill’s Cafe and those that love meat. Despite just opening Grub Street declared in it’s fall preview in August that Root Hill Burger would had 9 burgers on the menu. And those that attended the recent Film Biz Recycling Fundraising event Lights, Camera, Auction actually got to taste some of Root Hill Burger’s sliders. We didn’t get a chance ourselves to get a taste at this event, but that’s cause they went, so darn fast. Most likely cause people loved them!

    Photos of the interior of Root Hill Burger appeared on their facebook page shortly after the announcement they would be opening.

    (Click the photo to see more images)

     

     

     

  • Brooklyn Brew Kids

    In Brooklyn, Food, Make Stuff, Makers / By / / 0 comments

    Making beer is as close to being a God as a human being can get. Why? cause beer is freaking good and a key ingredient to making life awesome! In NYC there really aren’t to many place to grab supplies to make your own beer, luckily there’s the sweet couple from the Brooklyn Brew Shop to help you get your brewing on. 

    The couple, Erica Shea and Stephen Valand, have really nice kits that are available at various location in New York and across this country in places like Brooklyn Victory Garden, Choice Greene, and apparently now at Whole Foods.

    Brooklyn Brew Kids from Whole Foods Market on Vimeo.

    Brooklyn Brew Shop has a book you should too. Get it here!
     

     

  • Visit To Pork Slope

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    *advisory not for vegan eyes!

    This weekend we wondered up into Park Slope, Brooklyn to the meat mecca know as Pork Slope. Here’s what we discovered:

    They have lots of beer…

    They have lots of liquor too high for us to reach…

    They have Pig stuff is everywhere… Read more ›

     

  • Kittery Seafood Shack Coming to Gowanus/Carroll Gardens

    In Carroll Gardens, Food, Food: Eat Me! / By / / 0 comments

    Carroll G’s Lobster…

    by B. Umanov 

    Kittery

    Is it in Gowanus? Carroll Gardens? Somewhere else?

    Your father would’ve called it all “South Brooklyn” and scoffed at you for using these “made-up” neighborhood names designed to sell real estate, but wherever your predilection for nomenclature lies the news of another seafood joint could spell trouble for Gowanus’s Littleneck, itself approaching its one year anniversary. Get ready for Kittery, yet another restaurant in a neighborhood that has way too many to keep track of.

    Kittery is currently under construction at the corner of Smith and Union Streets and is set to open in the coming weeks. A sign in the window (below) promises “Coastal Cooking From Maine to the Gulf,” but we’re guessing the food will favor the latter; the restaurant takes it name from Kittery, Maine, a town just across the border from Portsmouth, NH.

    Kittery

    The same space was briefly the home of Diego, an ill-fated, decent but unspectacular Mexican restaurant that didn’t last very long. Before that, The Union Smith Cafe occupied the corner lot for a number of years.

    Kittery, like its predecessors on the same lot, will have indoor and outdoor seating; from the looks of it it may have an outdoor bar as well. Will Kittery’s fate echo the instant success of Littleneck, or will it be the next in a long, long line of Diegos past, present and future? Whatever the case, we’ll be in line for a lobster feast the minute it opens to find out.

    Follow Kittery on Facebook here.

     

  • Gowanus About To Go Ape

    In Food, Food: Eat Me!, Gowanus Products, Places / By / / 0 comments

    When you walk up into Park Slope along 5th Avenue the smell of delicious coffee gets stronger and stronger as you approach Park Place. The scent is familiar to Park Slope residents and the thousands of loyalist that swear allegiance to the brand know as Gorilla. We have friends that are crazy devoted fans… these folks like so many others simple won’t drink anything else. It’s Gorilla or nothing. And we ourselves agree that the taste is something very unique and something we have gladly walked through a multitude of weaving texting Scroller Moms to get to. Now that we think about it. Going to Gorilla from Gowanus is totally like Donkey Kong. You have to jump of barrels (kids in stroller), and those barrels turn into fire (whining kid in stroller). Then you have to climb up things (getting out of bed and that damn incline from the Slope part of Park Slope) …and when you get there you get a princess… wait no, no it’s not really like Donkey Kong. Unless a princess is a sweet shot of coffee!

    Anyways, Gorilla is always worth the trip cause it taste wonderful.

    But why are we talking about Gorilla…aside from the fact that they are a Brooklyn Roasted coffee and we luv everything Brooklyn… It’s this news…

    RUMOR has it that Gorilla just contracted a place down in Gowanus on President between 3rd Ave. and Nevins. The D’Amato Printing building will supposedly be the new home of Gorilla’s coffee roasting business. That means Gowanus is about to get a coffee smell to cover up the smell of the Gowanus Canal. Plus, now we can tell the devoted Gorilla drinkers that there most favorite coffee is made right here in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

    Awesome!

    This is just a rumor, but we surely hope it’s true!

     

     
 
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The crack between two hipster neighborhoods, home to the now superfunded Canal, the flash point for the new 'Buy Local' and textile revolutions, & filled with brilliant bohemians. . . this is Gowanus & it’ll awesome your face off.
 
 
 
 
 

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