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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
There’s no restaurant genre more hopelessly over-romanticized than the diner. And rightly so! Diners are awesome, both because of their core promise—a cheap, decent meal in a friendly (or, often, a “gruff-but-lovable”) setting—and for their power as nostalgia triggers. Do you have a favorite diner or three from the different eras of your youth, the sites of late-night adventures, hungover breakfasts and goofy aimless hangs with your best friends? Of course you do.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
The vibe is chill at the brand new Smor, a “Nordic-inspired” restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner that opened last week in Clinton Hill. For one thing, the place is tucked snugly here at the western end of residential Putnam Avenue, with a few tables set out front beneath those lush, some-sort-of-pine trees that line the block, and an interior that emphasizes the simple lines and calming tones that are the hallmarks of Scandinavian design. It feels a little like a secret.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights is not exactly known for its rapid turnover of restaurants. A good thing if you’re a long-time local who likes being a regular, less exciting for those nights when you’re in the mood for something different. Jules, a nifty new whole-pie, table-service pizza restaurant which opened a couple of weeks ago in the former Fifty Henry Wine Bar spot, gives you the best of both worlds.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
One of my most frequent food cravings is for a nice plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Nothing too fancy or cheffy, please. Just a big ol’ pile of pasta (it can be thicker or thinner, but it must be slurpably long and cooked al dente), smothered in a simple, bright tomato sauce, plenty of parm grated on top, maybe a few basil leaves strewn about, and as many dense and well-seasoned meatballs as you think I can handle (I can handle a lot).
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
Cali Faulkner has been dying to open her own restaurant from the day she started culinary school.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
Evan Toretto Li was born in Fujian, on the coast of southeast China, and spent much of his first 18 years bouncing between there and Hunan, which is slightly more inland. When he moved to Brooklyn with his family in 2006 two things surprised him: that “the vast majority” of Sunset Park residents were also Fujianese; and, even though so many of his new neighbors worked in restaurants, how difficult it was to find real Fujian food in his adopted city.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
Dave Patry grew up in Lewiston, Maine, a post-industrial mill town that’s home to Bates College and that, somewhat improbably, was also the site of the notorious Sonny Liston-Muhammed Ali “phantom punch” title fight in 1965. Lewiston’s third claim to fame? The Patry family restaurant Davinci’s Eatery, which recently ended its 30-year run and, along the way, earned Dave’s father Jules the “Maine Restaurateur of the Year” crown in 2012.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
The most amazing thing happened at Gov Ball this past summer. All weekend long the festival grounds were buzzing about Chappell Roan, who wasn’t slated to go on until the final hours of the final day. It’s all anyone wanted to talk about. And when she finally hit the stage late Sunday afternoon, the biggest single crowd I’ve ever seen was there to greet her, tens of thousands of people in pink cowboy hats stretching back farther than I could see. And Roan? She nailed it.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
Doughnuts are delicious any day of the year, but there’s something about autumn that feels particularly … doughnutty. Maybe it’s that nip in the air, and how well a fluffy (or cakey!) sweet treat goes with a nice cup of hot coffee. Or perhaps I’m tapping into deeply embedded happy memories of munching on apple cider doughnuts at upstate orchards, or roadside stands in Vermont, or, more recently, at the Greenmarket in Grand Army Plaza. Whatever. Doughnuts are awesome.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
bkmag.com | Scott Lynch
There’s an embarrassment of juicy, meaty, glorious taco riches happening in North Brooklyn right now, led by the great Taqueria Ramirez, of course, but joined last week by a worthy contender to whatever taco crown you happen to be bestowing, the excellent new Taqueria El Chato.
