cafe grumpy: the greenpoint version is b...
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02 1st, 2010 |
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happy february everyone. not the most exciting of months, but for me of all the winter months it is my favorite. january is long, but it’s now over, and february usually goes by in a flash: our multiple anniversaries are tucked in here (we have the official day we got married before the...
brooklyn mercantile: sewing so good on 5...
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01 5th, 2010 |
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brooklyn mercantile has been on 5th avenue for a couple of years now, right across from j.j. byrne park and the great little farmer’s market on the weekends (which i am really missing now that it is the dead of winter). i hadn’t stopped in much till recently, and then i really liked...
wings at bonnie’s grill: spicy, ch...
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06 9th, 2009 |
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i am not a buffalo style chicken wing expert (and there are lots of opinions on this topic: see here and here for starters). nonetheless i think i can wholeheartedly recommend the wings from bonnie’s grill in park slope. bonnie’s wings show up regularly on the wing rankings, and...
scandinavian grace: fine design with tre...
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04 28th, 2009 |
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earlier this year, on a side street quite close to one of the best blocks on park slope’s 5th avenue, a little home design shop opened up. and while 5th avenue does have a lot of great shops – other than matter which is a bit high end and esoteric – there are no real home stores...
lulu’s cuts and toys: all you need...
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04 20th, 2009 |
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this past march felt like we were in birthday party craziness. i think we were going to a birthday party if not every day of every weekend, at least once a weekend, and what’s a poor parent to do. fortunately we have a great little spot lulu’s cuts and toys that has every variety of...
trois pommes patisserie: the best jelly ...
i have to say that i have really truly never been a fan of the jelly donut. i always have liked just the cake part without any of that gooey stuff inside, and often that was because what was inside was just not that good. i have changed my mind. trois pommes patisserie, recently of whoopie pie...eidolon: a spot for cute shoes and other...
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03 25th, 2009 |
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rounding out my review of that very excellent fifth avenue block in park slope is eidolon, a teeny spot owned and run by three local designers — amara felice, andrea fisher and yukie ohta. while it is small, and the collections don’t rotate super frequently, they consistently have great...
grab specialty foods: fill her up!...
i first grew to really love beer, especially my beloved heiferweissen and kolsch, when j took me on his german tour (as i learned much later, apparently he took all the girlfriends there with a special romantic kickoff in heidelberg). and how could i not love eating freshly made pretzels, hanging...diana kane: swimsuit weather might be ne...
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03 16th, 2009 |
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well, i think that swimsuit weather is probably still a few months away (and that is definitely a good thing in my case) unless you have a nice warm vacation planned sometime soon, but this great little store is getting me excited to move past winter with some beautiful bikinis, sexy metallic flip flops...