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In this week’s Brooklyn Paper: Foodies are now leading the gentrification of Brooklyn

By kristen | Published: March 1, 2010
Editor’s note: Another outtake from my Brooklyn Paper writings: this week, I find eateries are helping to rapidly gentrify neighborhoods on the cusp. If there is anything that gentrified Brooklynites love more than gentrifying the rest of Brooklyn, it’s eating out. Naturally, then, a dilemma presents itself when your affordable apartment lacks any nearby options for [...]
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New wine bar from Mimi’s Hummus

By kristen | Published: February 26, 2010
To all you Ditmas Park folks: quit hogging all the borough’s best food and drink. The newest addition to Cortelyou Road’s veritable restaurant row (and the Mimi’s Hummus franchise), is The Castello Plan, a new wine bar from the owner of Mimi’s Hummus and the new aptly named Market. The spot is named for [...]
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McDonald’s Dollar Menu? Not quite.

By kristen | Published: February 23, 2010
According to the Brooklyn Paper DUMBO’s One Front Street plans to entice the recession-weary with their own take on the dollar menu — that is homemade fruit-infused vodka shots, burger sliders and other specials for just a buck every Wednesday through Sunday throughout the month of March. Unlike the McD’s dollar menu, however, there is a [...]
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Piquant lives up to it’s name

By kristen | Published: February 23, 2010
According to good ol’ Miriam-Webster, something piquant is “agreeably stimulating to the palate; especially spicy.” If that’s the case, Piquant, a newish upscale southwestern spot on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, is certainly aptly named. Last night, six of us ventured to Piquant for a more official birthday dinner than Brian and I’s Sunday night Mexican feast [...]
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Who has Brooklyn’s Best Chili? You decide!

By kristen | Published: February 22, 2010
Who has the borough’s best chili? Tonight is part one in a chili face-off between eateries Char No. 4 and the General Greene. Head to General Greene to sample the restaurants contenders ($21 for samples of each, plus a shot of bourbon and a beer back), then hit of Char No. 4 tomorrow for round [...]
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Brooklyn’s Best Tacos: California Approved

By kristen | Published: February 22, 2010
For those of you who don’t already know this about me, I am Taco obsessed. Two-and-a-half years ago when I left my middle-of-nowhere Spanish Harlem apartment for the greener pastures of Brooklyn, I cringed at the thought of losing the best thing that had ever happened to my taste buds this side of the Sierra Nevadas. [...]
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Scrapple! Made from the best stuff on earth

By kristen | Published: February 22, 2010
Well, now that we’re back from our second weekend on the road in search of great beer, it’s time to get back to business. Which means telling YOU all about the good eats the first state has to offer (that’s Delaware people). Our first noteworthy meal (that is, if you don’t count the Sunchips we had in [...]
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tanoreen: now twice as nice!

By kristen | Published: February 6, 2010
After tacos, Middle Eastern fare is likely my favorite indulgence (natch, as a Norwegian/Syrian mutt raised in southern California, this comes with the territory). Lucky for me (and everybody else) good Middle Eastern abounds in Brooklyn. I spent a decent amount of time traveling and studying in the Arab world and can confirm that the entire [...]
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