Washington Ave. is blowin’ up!  This morning I went to check out Sit and Wonder, the new coffee shop in the old Natural Heights space at Washington and St. Marks.  Their big claim to fame is that they’re serving Stumptown Coffee, which is apparently a big deal.  They also have wi-fi and some decent looking [...]

The day has finally arrived!  Today was the grand opening of the much anticipated Bklyn Larder, owned by the team behind Franny’s restaurant and located just a few blocks up Flatbush at Bergen.
The space is nicely sized; not so small that you can’t move, but not so large that they have to find things to [...]

According to Danae Oratowski of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (we have one of those?!) and the Brooklynian, Vanderbilt Ave. will be having its own Summer Streets program.  Every Sunday in June Vanderbilt will be closed to cars from Dean St. to Park Place between noon and 5pm.  Local businesses will have stands and [...]

Inspired by New York Magazine, I would like to invite you to the first ever Cozy Josie’s Brooklyn Beat Prospect Heights Pub Crawl!  This is a mix of places I have and haven’t been, so it will be an adventure for all.  You are encouraged to join us for the whole evening, but if you [...]

First attempt at mobile blogging, forgive me if the format is off. I just got word that Bklyn Larder, the new store from the people at Franny’s, is opening on Tuesday June 2nd at 11am. Stay tuned for more info!

A few posts ago, while gushing away about Pearl and the Beard, I mentioned that you would soon hear more about Hannah Fairchild.  Well, wait no longer!  I saw Hannah perform twice this week, both times at Bar 4 in Park Slope.  The first show was part of the Local Correspondents Festival, a seven night [...]

I am a combination of furious and mortified!  New York Magazine has scooped me on my own neighborhood!  In the most recent issue they list “Six Bar Crawls You’ve Never Done,” including one for Prospect Heights.  I have only been to TWO of the five bars they suggest, and I didn’t even know two of [...]

The Chocolate Room is one of the first places I ate in Brooklyn, when my gentleman friend and I helped his brother unpack from moving to the area.  It’s just what it sounds like: a restaurant devoted to chocolate.  The atmosphere is classy but not pretentous, and the food is amazing.  I usually get the [...]

From Gothamist: “What’s new is that Ortine has just opened a garden dining area that’s actually a real garden. Freshly-planted herbs and an in-ground vegetable garden will soon be supplying ingredients for the kitchen. (All pickling, preserving, sprouting and baking is done in-house.) A fruit-bearing cherry tree, a spruce tree, and a rose bush complete [...]

I’ve been putting off writing this post for a couple reasons, one technical and one emotional.  The technical has to do with wanting to set up an audio player (thanks for the help, Gentleman Friend).  The emotional has to do with how much my musical world has been rocked because of the events below…

Last Saturday [...]