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It took long enough, but Bogart Street falafel joint Olive Valley is finally open tonight! It’s at 43 Bogart, just to the south of Ad Hoc Art. Let us know how it is!
We’ve just added several new businesses to the Bushwick Business Map!
Included in the update are established businesses we have just gotten around to reviewing like George’s Restaurant, Tacos El Poblano, and Tina’s diner. We added newly opened places like The Wick bar down on Broadway and Putnam and Cafe Orwell, which snuck up on us out of the blue on Varet. We have also included soon-to-open business like Tandem bar, Chew and Chat Café, Big Tree Bottles wine shop, CakeWalk vegan bakery, and the Olive Valley falafel joint.
We’re aware there are more things to add. We’re on it, and as ever, please recommend notable businesses for inclusion on the Bushwick Business Map forum thread.
 Spacious, not crammed, inside newly opened Cafe Orwell. — Photo by Joel Myers I was making my usual Friday-morning trek to the Archive, walking up Varet Street a few blocks from the Morgan stop on the L, when I looked up and noticed (!!!!) there was a new coffee shop in town.
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 Future location of LA Burrito at 67 Wilson Avenue. Bushwick seems to have reached the point where the people with the money realize there’s a market in feeding us stranded townies. In addition to confirmed joints like Tandem, Chew and Chat, and recently opened The Wick, here are some other bits I’m working on for you:
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 Keeping that ‘Wick lit. — Photo by Peter Puleo On the cusp of our neighborhood bordering the disputed territory of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, a friendly new watering hole has opened its doors to what were positive reviews all around. The Wick does not have a proper sign yet but is noticeable by the neon beer logos in the window.
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 Jane and Cathy talk over their plans at Tandem’s salvaged mahogany bar. After a year of planning and construction, in addition to unexpected delays due to roof and plumbing issues, a change of layout, and interminable waits on regulatory compliance issues, Jane Virga’s bar, Tandem, is nearing completion and should be open for business this coming January.
I stopped in to hang out a bit with Jane and her sister Cathy and sample a few concoctions they were mixing at the imposing mahogany bar they’re nearly finished installing in the space. The bar is salvaged from an Elks Lodge in upstate NY where it’s rumored Ella Fitzgerald once played. Between sampling liquors, Jane and Cathy talked about the various design decisions they made throughout the process.
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 The Chew and Chat Café will open soon at 50 Starr Street. — Photo by Jeremy Sapienza Bushwick diners will soon have more choices in the neighborhood. A 70-seat restaurant with an eclectic menu and industrial interiors is slated to open in February at the corner of Wilson and Starr.
Enzo Gugliuzza, 45, and Anna Maria Palmiotto, 40, each moved to New York in their early 20s to chase dreams they felt they couldn’t achieve in provincial Southern Italy. “People talk about how nice it is to live in Italy, the food, the beautiful towns, and it’s true — but Italy doesn’t give you the opportunity you have in this country,” explained Anna Maria. So it’s no surprise that this entrepreneurial couple came to Bushwick to do what is now impossible for non-millionaires in Manhattan: open a restaurant.
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 The newly renovated interior of La Tortillería Mexicana Los Hermanos still offers a view of the aromatic warehouse floor. — Photo by Diego Cupolo It’s back! The celebrated taco shack in La Tortillería Mexicana Los Hermanos has been upgraded from an unusual snack stop in a garage to what seems to be a long-term establishment.
Los Hermanos set aside a corner of their one-story warehouse on Starr Street to create a small restaurant with the same big taste of their popular food stand. Customers can now enjoy their filled-to-the-brim tacos on sleek wood tables while observing the action on the tortillería floor through glass walls.
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Beer shelves at Food Bazaar — photo by Justin Denune
Craft beers are becoming more prevalent in our dining experiences and increasingly are what we drink at home. Chances are you’ve noticed this in bars as staples such as Bass, Yuengling and Stella Artois are replaced by taps of lesser known breweries such as Allagash, Goose Island and Blue Point. This is also apparent in stores, where stacks of Budweiser, Coors and Miller have been replaced by dozens of small label beers. This trend has been progressing in the northeast for over a decade, but is just recently really hitting Brooklyn, and it’s a blessing for those of us who not only enjoy getting our buzz on, but care about quality and selection.
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Eating under the watch of la Virgen. — photo by Diego Cupolo
The best taco I’ve ever had in my life came out of a small, dirty shack on wheels in Los Angeles — it left my mouth burning with unimaginable pleasure as I tried to figure out how four people could fit in that tiny food stand from heaven.
Here in New York, the land of pizza, finding a decent taco can seem as challenging as tracking down an edible slice in Arkansas. Luckily, one of the first places I visited in my neighborhood was Tacos El Poblano, an inexpensive bar and restaurant on Broadway. It was there that my frustratingly long taco search came to an end as I bit into tortilla euphoria before a retro mural of Maria de Guadalupe.
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