The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Brooklyn
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Rank 299. The Richardson
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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No website, no phone number, and nothing on the exterior but a small street number and white tiles that read more like a morgue than a cocktail bar. Weather Up in Prospect Heights commits fully to the bit. Inside, those same tiles climb the ceiling over a zinc-topped wooden bar with sculptural stools, turning the whole room into something between a former bathhouse and a very stylish fever dream.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. Brouwerij Lane
Beer Bar
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. Di An Di
Vietnamese Noodle Shop
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Rank 303. Eavesdrop
Japanese
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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A gallery of cow portraits on the wall sets the tone at this no-frills Park Slope coffee shop, which does not take itself too seriously but does take espresso seriously. Black & White roasts come out of a small, sunny space with tile backsplash, a handful of stools, and Colson pastries for the indecisive. The staff know what they're doing, which in this neighborhood is less common than it should be.
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Rank 303. Fulgurances Laundromat
Experimental French
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Roadbook Roadbook: The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
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Rank 303. Le Crocodile
French
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- The New York Times 2020 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
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Rank 303. Lise & Vito
Natural Wine Bar
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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A small "Cocktails" neon sign is the only clue visible through the net-curtained windows of this Williamsburg cocktail bar, which occupies a former auto-parts store near McCarren Park. Inside, ornamental plates crowd the walls, tasseled fittings hang overhead, and ceramic tiles fool the eye into reading as rugs. It feels like a great-aunt's drawing room, if your great-aunt had excellent taste and kept unusual hours.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
- Roadbook Roadbook: The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2020 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Roadbook Roadbook: The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
- The New York Times 2020 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
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Rank 303. OddFellows Ice Cream Co.
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 303. Paulie Gee's
Neapolitan Pizzeria
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Peaches HotHouse is a casual Bed-Stuy counter-service spot for Nashville hot chicken, back when that was a rare find in the city and long before the chains with celebrity backing showed up. You pick your heat (regular, hot, extra hot) and your bird, shrimp, or catfish, then add grits and collards. Dress for a paper-lined basket and a mild sweat. Eater lists it among the best places to eat in the neighborhood.
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Rank 303. Principles GI Coffee House
Personality-Driven Coffee
The pourover menu specifies black only, no exceptions, which tells you everything about this coffee shop before you've ordered. A queer-owned community hub straddling Park Slope and Gowanus, Principles runs on small rotating roasters, plant-based milks across the board, and a gratuity-included model. Cyclists and coffee obsessives fill the place, drawn as much by the ethos as the espresso. The garage door opens when weather permits, and there's a bike repair area out back.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. Saraghina
Pizzeria
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Rank 303. Southside Coffee
Minimalist Coffee
Window-service only since 2020, this minimalist coffee shop in South Slope turned its interior into a commissary, which turns out to be a fine trade. Counter Culture beans anchor the drinks, but the daily-rotating pastries, cheddar jalapeño corn muffins, and hugely bready sandwiches are what bring out the line of families and dogs. Greenwood Cemetery is an easy walk, if you need somewhere to eat.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. The Hidden Pearl
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. Trad Room
Izakaya
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Rank 303. Twins Lounge
Dive Bar
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 303. Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 303. Villager NYC
Coffee
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Rank 340. She Wolf Bakery
Old-School Bakery
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- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
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Rank 341. Hainanese Chicken House
Malaysian
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2023 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 342. Karenderya
Filipino
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- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 344. Dunya Kabab House
Afghan
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2022 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 344. Nabila's
Lebanese
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2022 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 346. Ras Plant Based
Ethiopian
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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Rank 347. dokidoki
Japanese
A standing bar modeled on the Japanese tachinomi tradition, which means you're on your feet, shoulder to shoulder, and the whole room is already talking. Low-alcohol cocktails, sake, and shochu anchor the drinks list, with classics quietly reinterpreted through Japanese and Latin ingredients. The two bartenders behind the counter bring serious cocktail-bar pedigree to a room that wears it lightly, and the small bites fold Japanese technique into Puerto Rican and Salvadoran flavors.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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Rank 355. Fradei Bistro
Bistro
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2021 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 356. El Encebollado de Rossy
Ecuadorean Peruvian
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2020 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 356. Kokomo
Caribbean
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2020 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 358. Boran
Thai
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 358. Mama's Noodle House
Noodle Shop
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 361. Claro
Mexican
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2018 · 2 stars · Restaurant Review
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Rank 361. Village Café
Middle Eastern
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2018 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2018 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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Rank 363. Lagman House
Chinese Noodle Shop
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2018 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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A tasting counter in Brooklyn where the kitchen uses yuzu as sauerkraut draped over clams instead of a tidy squeeze of acid. Chef Victoria Blamey's avant-garde tasting menu runs about three hours and tends to fill your head with strong flavors that most restaurants at this price point seem too nervous to attempt. The Dungeness crab empanada, built on a Chilean abalone dish with Chartreuse and fermented black beans, is the kind of thing that makes you question your senses.
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2015 · 3 stars · Restaurant Review
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2024 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2024 · Dungeness Crab Empanada · Hungry for the Best? Here Are Our Top New York Dishes of 2024.
- The New York Times 2015 · 3 stars · Restaurant Review
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times 2024 · Dungeness Crab Empanada · Hungry for the Best? Here Are Our Top New York Dishes of 2024.
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A prix-fixe dinner party where strangers share a table and, apparently, an extraordinary chocolate cake. The cake alone landed on the New York Times list of top dishes of 2024: dark cocoa crumb, pink-peppercorn buttercream, and the kind of thing that makes you rethink everything you assumed about the format. Communal seating and a tasting menu in the $60 to $75 range make this feel more like a good dinner at a friend's place than a restaurant.
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Rank 366. Sofreh Cafe
Persian
Nasim Alikhani's minimalist Persian cafe on Flatbush is the kind of place you visit for one thing and leave thinking about it for weeks. That thing is the latifeh, a traditional confection the New York Times flagged as one of 2024's top New York dishes: two rounds of soft, rose-scented cream sandwiched between pastry and rolled in salted pistachios. Made fresh constantly so they never turn soggy, each one disappears faster than you planned.
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Rank 368. ICHIRAN Brooklyn
Japanese Noodle Shop
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2017 · 1 star · Restaurant Review
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2016 · 1 star · Restaurant Review
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Rank 370. Sea Witch
American Beer Bar
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2012 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2012 · 1 star · Restaurant Review
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Rank 370. Xixa
Mexican
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2013 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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