Allen Katz sits in a broad-backed wooden chair in the Shanty, the bar attached to the New York Distilling Company, the Williamsburg distillery that he co-founded in 2011 with Tom and Bill Potter. He ...

Ten years ago, when Williamsburg was well on its gentrification journey but was still without an Apple Store, the Four Horsemen opened on Grand Street and changed what wine could be. Originally a ...

Every town in Mexico has at least one paleteria—ice pop store—and as a kid, I’d indulge in their fruity, refreshing paletas practically every week. These were definitely not your average ice pops; the ...

A Trip to Yellow Rose is a Trip to Texas and More On my way to Yellow Rose, a Tex-Mex restaurant near the corner of 13th and 3rd, I was amused to see that the restaurant was almost directly next to a ...

One week ago, Jewish people all over the world commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a somber and sobering reflection on the unimaginable. As a food archivist who has chronicled the ...

VHH Foods serves up some exquisite dishes. Photo by Ingalls Photography. May 2019 Editor’s Note: since we first published this story, in July 2017, dining options on the DUMBO waterfront have expanded ...

There was a time when you could judge a coffee shop by the menu. The best cafés had the simplest drinks, with nothing more baroque on offer than a latte—and even that was treated with some snobby ...

Has there ever been a better time in world history for chocolate lovers? At first glance, that might seem like a wild statement, but consider the evidence. In recent years, nonprofits and journalists ...

Staying in for coffee is a simple luxury in a fast-moving city. Sure, Brooklyn is spoilt for choice among eclectic, world-class coffee shops in which to sip and be seen sipping. But aren’t those rare ...

Charlotta Janssen never planned on being a restaurateur. Charlotta Janssen never planned on being a restaurateur. An artist by trade, she was working in restaurant renovation when her ex-boyfriend ...

We have our favorite posts of 2015, and looking at the numbers, these are yours. It was a big year for photo essays, hidden gems in Crown Heights and boozy concoctions. Street food is ever-popular ...

The mint leaf is meant to be eaten, lowering waste. Photo by the author. The end of summer in Brooklyn is notoriously unpredictable. Residents may anticipate another several following weeks of warm ...