(Photo courtesy of Little Choc.)
Greenpoint got its first apothecary and juice bar back in October and now Williamsburg is getting one — with gluten-free crepes thrown in. Pourqoui pas?
Keep Reading »
(Photos: Daniel Maurer)
While New Yorkers await Anthony Bourdain’s forthcoming food hall, another global-cuisine concept has sneaked onto the scene in Williamsburg. The owners of Greenwich Village Caribbean spot Negril Village quietly opened Streets last week.
Keep Reading »
News that the incoming Williamsburg Hotel would feature a rooftop bar inside of a water tower really made a splash earlier this month. Now we’ve obtained renderings of the seven-story hotel that show it will offer an outdoor rooftop pool, a basement dance club, and a “stylish restaurant,” among other splashy amenities.
Keep Reading »
Matthew Marcus (l) and Daniel Albrigo (r). (Photos: Ian Frisch)
Eight hours before the grand opening of Three Kings Studios, a bi-level art gallery at 754 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, owner Matthew Marcus locked its front door from the inside. He stood, back to the street, sending e-mails on his iPhone and corralling a small staff to help with last-minute preparations for the inaugural show yesterday evening, featuring Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Albrigo.
Keep Reading »
If you’re going to deflate a football, at least deflate the $185 camouflage ball being sold at East Williamsburg’s newest clothing store. Because if you’re going to risk Roger Goodell’s wrath, you might as well do so in style.
Victory Lap, a clothing brand started by designer Tavon Davis in 2013, opened its first brick-and-mortar store on Bushwick Avenue this month, just a stone’s throw from where you can now get vodka on tap.
Keep Reading »
(Photos: Daniel Maurer)
Vitaly Sherman believes the restaurant he opened last night in East Williamsburg may be the first in the world to offer vodka on tap.
Keep Reading »
(Photo: Courtesy Juicy Spot Cafe)
The Lower East Side and East Village just got a few new takeout options for healthy and decidedly unhealthy food alike. Check em out.
Keep Reading »
(Photo courtesy of Cafe Clover)
Speaking of radical art, a health-minded cafe that opens in the West Village tonight takes design cues from Viennese secessionist architecture and painters like Max Ernst and Alberto Giacometti.
Keep Reading »
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Last month Giulio Adriani converted the Bowery location of Forcella into a Spanish joint, Espoleta Tapas & Wine Bar — but rest assured the pizzaiolo hasn’t left pie-making behind him. Tonight, in the tiny space next to the restaurant that used to hold takeout joint Slice of Naples, he’s opening “New York City’s only pizza speakeasy.”
Keep Reading »
(Photo courtesy of Sweetleaf)
Williamsburg just got a roastery-cafe specializing in Colombian beans, and now Greenpoint is getting one.
Sweetleaf is opening the dual operation off of Manhattan Avenue, and its owner, New York native Rich Nieto, says this one won’t be like some of the national and international operations that have landed in Brooklyn lately. “I think it’ll probably have more of a local feel,” he says of his roastery-cafe. “I don’t get a local feel from companies that have to cross the ocean to get here and then they open up and then say, ‘We’re your local coffee shop.’”
Keep Reading »
Spot Dessert Shoppe’s playful selection of mousse
Life on St. Marks Place just got sweeter thanks to two new dessert shops. Both ice cream maker DF Mavens and Asian-inspired confectioner Spot Dessert Shoppe opened their doors in recent weeks.
Keep Reading »
(Photos: Jaime Cone)
The former Obscura storefront on East 10th Street has been transformed into what appears to be a mild-mannered coffee shop – but you’ll still find a few oddities within. The seating, for example, is made out of repurposed RPG rocket crates.
Keep Reading »