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Old-School Butchers in Your Neighborhood

Where do you buy your meat? I think shopping a little more old-school by visiting a neighborhood butcher is such a bigger pleasure (and often a bigger savings) than buying meat from the grocery store....

Store Review: Whisk
New York

We just got back from a visit to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where we stopped in at Whisk, a comprehensive, one-stop cooking shop (with charm to boot) that opened just a few months ago......

Park Slope's Last Butcher Pu$hed Out
New York City

A & S Pork Store in Park Slope, Brooklyn is closing on October 1. This real butcher shop is our source for sausages, roasts, and the best homemade mozzarella and ricotta we've ever tasted. A&S is clo...

NYC Deals: Acme Smoked Fish Sells to the Public

Acme is a family-run business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that sells nova, whitefish, and other smoked fish to stores like Russ & Daughters and Zabar's. On Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., they sell str...

Chocolate Beer Cupcakes at the Brooklyn Kitchen Blog

Cupcake contests are quite popular these days, and this one actually took place a month ago, but we were just browsing the Brooklyn Kitchen blog and saw this recipe for Kate's Beer Geek Chocolate Cupc...

Is Fairway the Best Grocery Store in Manhattan?

We know we may rankle a few readers with this one, but when it comes to all-purpose, get-everything-on-your-list grocery stores, we think Fairway has little competition. But the crowds......

NYC: Kitchen Shopping and Delicious Eats at the Brooklyn Flea

This weekend marked the debut of the Brooklyn Flea, purported to be NYC's largest outdoor market selling new and vintage furniture, artwork, clothing, and jewelry. For cooks, this meant loads of cute ...

Store Review: The Park Slope Food Coop

When it comes to the Park Slope Food Coop, unbelievers are everywhere. They say that there are too many rules, which are too stridently enforced. They complain about crowded aisles and long lines. The...

Wine Store Review: Best Cellars

For the casual-yet-discerning wine drinker, perusing the jumbled aisles at the liquor store can be an antiseptic and uninspiring experience. And yet it's easy to feel intimidated and tongue-tied when ...

Neighborhood Report: Fresh Kielbasa and Bargain Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

When Poland's first free elections were held in 1990, more than 7000 absentee ballots were cast from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. So it makes sense that cooks wanting authentic kielbasa,...

Store Review: Urban Rustic

The John Deere tractor on the sign out front is your first clue that Urban Rustic isn't your average Brooklyn corner market. Stepping inside on a recent visit, we felt as if we'd suddenly been tran...

NYC: Where Do You Buy Your Coffee Beans?

Gorilla Coffee and Ninth Street Espresso are two of our favorites in New York City. Where do you buy your beans?...

Applewares: Brooklyn, NY

Natural and local kitchen tools are the focus of Applewares, a new kitchen store in Park Slope, Brooklyn from the owners of nearby Applewood Restaurant. Our favorite find in cozy Applewares are the o...

Moon River Chattel: Brooklyn, NY

The general store is not extinct yet. Williamsburg's Moon River Chattel provides a wide-ranging collection of practical if pricey housewares. Cooks will be drawn to the collection of yellow ware canis...

The Brooklyn Kitchen: Brooklyn, NY

The Brooklyn Kitchen is L train worthy. That's right: for residents of Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, this new kitchen shop is worth the trip. Take the L train to the Lorimer stop and bring thi...

Blue Apron Foods: Brooklyn, NY

Wander through Park Slope, Brooklyn and you're sure to find some great food: prosciutto from the butcher, baguettes and cookies from a bakery, and a surprisingly wide selection of olive oils and othe...

Flatbush Food Coop

[This store review, along with a few other posts you'll see soon, comes from Sara, to whom we are grateful. Thank you, Sara!] The Flatbush Food Coop is the unsung hero of Brooklyn’s natural food ma...

Fairway Market in Red Hook

(Chris, of Electric Stove, sent in this review of the new Fairway market in Red Hook, Brooklyn) I went to the new 52,000 square foot Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn hoping to find one of the best groce...