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The Anchored Inn Docks at Waterbury
October 7th, 2011
Let’s not mince words here. The Anchored Inn is a awesome new bar in industrial in East Williamsburg. It’s a rowdy, nautical themed space, as if Jacque Cousteau liked to listen to Manowar and drink cans of Tecate with limes…
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Alizee: Polish Food South of the Borough Line
September 9th, 2011
A couple of months ago, a bright new mural appeared on Suydam Street. A cartoonish hand, holding a steaming cup, with bright rays of yellow bursting from behind, announced the lure of coffee and more, from inside. “How long have you been…
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Top Ten Bushwick Taco Joints
July 22nd, 2011
If you haven’t figured it out by now, Bushwick is one of New York’s premier taco destinations. Our thin rectangle of North Brooklyn is home to a large community of Mexican immigrants mostly hailing from the region around Puebla;…
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Burger it Up, With Booze, on Knickerbocker
July 8th, 2011
Sandro Santana admits he’s “extremely stressed.” He’s working twelve-hour days, seven days a week, running his family’s two-month-old burger joint, Burger it Up!. With no previous restaurant experience except for teenage years as a dishwasher he’s smoothing out daily…
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Foca on the Antojitos
June 24th, 2011
One of the more frustrating aspects of Bushwick’s dining scene is the unpredictability. Like Italian train lines and the Southern reaches of California, Bushwick’s restaurants move at a slower pace. There’s an assumed sense of "we’ll open when we open,"…
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The Morgan: Swanky, but a Little Sloppy
June 10th, 2011
The Morgan is a swanky new place in a formerly lonely old building that seemed about to fall down before it was rescued by owner Richard Guillard. After a year-long rehab — Guillard is an interior designer by trade —…
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New Pizza and Falafel Joint Takes the Cake
May 6th, 2011
OMG! OMG Pizza is open for business. A sliver of a building (former site of short-lived Sweet Dulce cake shop) with a bright red awning, the business resides on an acute triangular lot at the pedestrian’s nightmare intersection of Myrtle, Dekalb,…
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Corner Deli Mixes It Up as Kimchi ‘Factory’
April 22nd, 2011
With its cold case of beer, Boar’s Head sandwiches, and rows of packaged goods, N & D Deli on Onderdonk Avenue is just like any other corner bodega. But locals popping in for cigarettes and toilet paper might do a…
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Don’t Confuse Your Cholulas
April 1st, 2011
Like so many of the taquerías in the neighborhood, El Sol de Cholula started as a convenience store. The owners have swapped shelving for tables — though there’s still a wall of chips and supermarket style-stacks of canned chipotle…
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Montero’s: Skip the Pizza, Get the Goat
March 18th, 2011
Montero’s is a newly opened pizzeria and “Mexican grill” on Irving Avenue. It’s a slim space, aping any two-dollar-a-slice joint in Manhattan, with four glossy tables wedged into the front hall. Pizza is the focal point but there is so…
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