ERIC EATS BLAH BLAH BLOG... best of Brooklyn restaurants and beyond and way beyond: DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

ERIC EATS BLAH BLAH BLOG... best of Brooklyn restaurants and beyond and way beyond: DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

Fennel flows

Really. No meat,fish, chicken..i should get over it. This place @ 430 east 9st helped. It is closet sized but spanking fresh looking. The kitchen is galley sized but the whole crew operates like the workings of a shiny pocket watch. Start with the Jalapeno Hush Puppies with maple butter. These are like  a party in a croquette. Fennel sunflower soup with fennel pretzels sounds too fancy spa-like..but tastes foamy and
as welcome as a wicker basket at a picnic in the meadow (oh stuff it if you think this writing is wanting...i am trying and have just started liking this food...talking about it well may come later).

HUSH,hush, sweet puppies

Popcorn pudding

Well consider the grits and tempura poached egg...damn! And next time chard gnocchi..yes there will be a next time, you flesh lovin cynics.

RUNNER&STONE BAKERY AND RESTAURANT

i LOVE restaurants...especially new ones...new good ones...and at 285 third ave corner of carroll is a stylish new comer with so much going for it and evidence upon which to build hopes. Evidence like the chicken in mushroom broth with mushroom dumplings or  the promise embedded in maple flavored sprouts. Really though some of the best bread wheat/rye bread is the true signature to consider...here the bakery feature of this cozy haven reveals itself. The bar feels personable and equipped. And now we turn to ambiance and story/character...this place has both in spades. The green and recycled features are attractive and almost fireplace like in their ability to make you comfy. The flour sack walls and the reclaimed  water tank wood tables..the basement alcove...and then in the rear bakers racks! They were empty but full that morning with? Tomorrow they will display? The butter is made of melted gold and the olive oil tastes expensive. Prices were reasonable and be aware that this location is no longer just commerce..a cluster of restaurants has mushroomed---sorry thinking of the dumplings.

Signature bread

Estia's Little Kitchen...1650 Sag Harbor tpke

Egg white and vegi burger burrito

Chorizo and scrambled

Sag Harbor New York...once did great fish dinner at this diner turned amermex gourmet without loss of the dineresque comfort. Breakfast with son and granddaughter new years eve and as son often says "the best I have ever had"...but this time so right...his chorizo and scrambled on tortillas and my egg white with veg burger burrito(don't mock)..and Sophie's face painted pancakes. This lonesome road diner is worth a trip from anywhere. Happy Yearofneweating!

Tooker Alley 703 Washington Ave bklyn..a bar with likeability

All the shelves are top shelf

The old slides and weathered reclaimed ceiling and mixologist expertise makes this a comfortable way station next to previouslu reviewed Corvo. There is a brief promising bar menu . The menu itself is a quirky reative good read.

JANE RESTAURANT

100 West Houston 212 254 7000....Its lawyer Jerry Lefcourt's son's
restaurant i would say. No she'd say. Then she goes without me comes back and says great. So we go together and no mushrooms for me she says. Then she tastes my tortolloni. Let me have it she says. Boy Id like to I says. We will go back.

Mushroom Bolognese Tortolloni

Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbeque....makes nyc a bbq town again.

NYC was not known for its BBQ, but then again Memphis was not known for its bagels or pastrami. We do have Daisy Mae's on the west side of Manhattan and we once had Pearson's Texas Q in LIC and then Manhattan and then back of a bar in Jackson Heights Queens...and Virgil's(thanks Artie) and Syracusian Dinosaur spreading around the State. But with some exceptions in one decade or another few were as promising as this chopped/pulled pork heaven hidden as it should be on industrial 3av and 7/8st park slope...not pork slope (name taken) . Bill Fletcher,after selling his Dumbo /Chicago ad agency, started this 5-9pm (Weekend:5-11) joint with the same smoker Brit Pearson had . But he liked bbq before(Bills bbq blog). Matt is the pittmaster and they both like people and talking about bbq-love. Beer and wine and deeply smoked beans,,,crispy slaw..sauces from hot n tot land...brisket and ribs mac  and pickles and a chicken that crossed the road before i got there. A mix of rock and country in the background. And actually if i implied this was a food desert, I am sorry because a Chinese restaurant, a pie oasis and a pub are in arm's reach. Thank you Santa..just what i wanted for Xmas.  347 763 2680

This meat had the tender/crisp blend that God intended and was spicy before adding sauce but
it wanted to wear as least one dressing and it looked and tasted right when sauced and when not.

433 3rd ave bklyn 11215