Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens is one of the restaurants I’ve been meaning to try for the past year.  We went on Saturday, and the first thing you should know is that this joint is jumpin’!  We arrived at 7:00pm and were quoted an hour and 15 minute wait (they only take reservations for large [...]

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 [...]

Chavella’s opened down the street from my old apartment not long after I moved in there two years ago.  It’s tiny Mexican restaurant with maybe 10 tables, and from the first time we visited, we knew we had something good on our hands.  Little did we know what an incredible restaurant Chavella’s would become.  Now [...]

One of our favorite new-ish places in Prospect Heights is Ortine, which has been open since December 2008.  It’s exactly the kind of place we’re always hoping will open in the neighborhood: a coffee shop/cafe with wine and beer.  The menu is limited in size but not in vision; my gentleman friend recently enjoyed the [...]