Brooklyn
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The second real borough in this data, and the only other one with enough rows to read as a destination.
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Destination · Crown Heights
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Chakriya Un cooks Khmer food out of a seven-table room in Crown Heights, and the fish mint on the plate comes from her aunt's backyard.
L'Industrie Pizzeria
Destination · Restaurant · Brooklyn
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Massimo Laveglia opened this Williamsburg counter in 2017 and gave the dough a long ferment. The crust is Roman-thin and the toppings come in from Italy.
Peter Luger Steak HouseMichelin
Solid · Williamsburg
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The porterhouse is broiled on one side. It finishes cooking on the plate, so the servers wear belt buzzers and run.
SailorMichelin
Solid · American · Fort Greene · $$$
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Sailor salts its half chicken a day ahead, dries it in the cold, then works a compound butter of shallot, garlic, lemon, sage, bay, thyme, dried mint and oregano under the skin before it is roasted and finished in its own drippings.
Lucali
Solid · Pizza · Carroll Gardens · $$
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Lucali's cooks roll the dough with a floured wine bottle in front of the room, and it comes out of a domed brick oven wafer-thin, crunching like a saltine, with a burst of charred air in every puffy bite of rim.
Frankies 457 Spuntino
Solid · Brooklyn
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Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli opened this Carroll Gardens room in 2004 to take back their own heritage. The pasta is their grandmothers': semolina and water, no eggs.
Taqueria Ramirez
Solid · Restaurant · Brooklyn
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Taqueria Ramirez runs a choricera and a comal that were both custom made in Mexico City, and it does not make its own tortillas because the tacos would cost more.
Chez Ma Tante
Solid · Brooklyn
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Ordering pierogi in Greenpoint takes some nerve, and Chez Ma Tante buys theirs from a Polish lady around the corner and has her stuff them with ramps or snap peas.
Bonnie'sBib
Solid · Brooklyn
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Calvin Eng named this room for his mother Bonnie. Her steamed egg custard is on the menu, and she measured it with eggshells and intuition.
Maison Premiere
Solid · Brooklyn
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Maison Premiere is an oyster and absinthe bar on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. The Maison Sherry Cobbler runs four styles of sherry against lemon and blueberry jam.
Gage & Tollner
Solid · Brooklyn
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This Brooklyn dining room opened in 1892 and closed in 2004. It held a TGI Fridays for part of the gap. New owners reopened it in 2021.
VatoMichelin
Solid · Brooklyn
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Vato presses sourdough flour tortillas in Park Slope, and ten of them cost $10 to take home.
Clover Club
Solid · Brooklyn
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Julie Reiner opened Flatiron Lounge in 2003. She taught a generation of New York bartenders on that floor: Phil Ward, Lynnette Marrero, Katie Stipe, Tonia Guffey, Giuseppe Gonzalez.
TheodoraMichelin
Solid · Brooklyn
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Tomer Blechman dry-ages fish and cooks it over open fire at Theodora, and the plate the MICHELIN inspector picks is black cod under miso beurre blanc.
al di la Trattoria
Solid · Restaurant · Park Slope
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Anna Klinger and Emiliano Coppa have cooked northern Italian at 248 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope since 1998, and the plate that says which part of Italy is the casunziei: beet and ricotta ravioli under butter and poppy seeds, $19.
Di Fara Pizza
Solid · Restaurant · Brooklyn
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Dom DeMarco opened this Midwood counter in 1965 and made the pies by hand for most of the shop's life. His family works the ovens now, and The Infatuation still scores it 8.7.
Frankel's Delicatessen
Solid · Greenpoint
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The Frankel brothers cook their own grandmother's brisket recipe and pile it on challah. Fifteen seats, one line, and McCarren Park fifty steps away when the seats are gone.
Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket
Solid · Prospect Heights
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Wilklow Orchards brings cider and orchard fruit from Ulster County to the northwest corner of Prospect Park. GrowNYC has run this market on that plaza every Saturday since 1989.
Boobie Trap
Listed · Bushwick
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Kristen North opened this Bushwick corner bar in August 2014 and works the taps herself.
Forthave Spirits
Listed · Brooklyn
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Aaron Sing Fox and Daniel de la Nuez macerate over two hundred herbs, roots, barks and flowers in stainless steel on Flushing Avenue.
Nenes Taqueria
Listed · Restaurant · Brooklyn
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Chef Andres cooks birria off Puebla family recipes, and on Degraw Street it comes as a taco, a ramen, an empanada and a pizza.
Diner
Listed · Brooklyn
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Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth opened Diner on a lonesome corner under the Williamsburg Bridge on New Year's Eve, and the bar you sit at is an old Kullman dining car.
Do or Dive Bar
Listed · Brooklyn
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The cocktails come in chalices, they are large, and there is a big backyard on Bedford Avenue to carry one into.
Grimaldi's Pizzeria
Listed · Restaurant · Brooklyn
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Grimaldi's opened in Dumbo in 1990, then sold, franchised out to more than forty doors and moved a few storefronts into an old bank building.
Juliana's Pizza
Listed · Brooklyn
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Patsy Grimaldi opened this shop on the site of his own first pizzeria and called it after his mother. The Grimaldi's next door carries his old name and belongs to somebody else.
Junior's Restaurant (Downtown Brooklyn)
Listed · Downtown Brooklyn
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The cheesecake is tangy, sweet and browned on top, and the graham crust under it does not go soggy, which Will Hartman singles out.
Mo's General
Listed · Williamsburg
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Jesse Burns describes his own pizza in one line: "naturally leavened sourdough with really good things on top."
two8two Bar & Burger
Listed · Brooklyn
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The burger is a five-ounce patty under roasted poblano chilies and a spicy creamy sauce, in a Martin's roll. Billy Thanopoulos has run it since 2011.
TØRST
Listed · Brooklyn
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Tørst pours 21 draft lines on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, and all of them rotate. More than 200 bottles and cans sit behind them.
Ume
Listed · Brooklyn
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Ume sells one thing, a $78 sushi set, and you build it yourself. Twelve cuts of fish arrive with nori, rice and a few salts. You sit on a cushion on Kent Avenue and make your own dinner.
Cas West Indian & American Restaurant
Listed · Restaurant · Brooklyn
135 Kingston Avenue. Details to come.
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Mile End Delicatessen
Solid · Provisions · Brooklyn
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Montreal smoked meat is cured brisket, sliced by hand, and this kitchen has been curing and smoking its own in Boerum Hill since 2010. Get it on rye.
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Brooklyn Brewery
Temp closed · Brewery · Brooklyn
Brooklyn Brewery poured its last pint at 79 North 11th Street on 29 August 2026, after 30 years in that warehouse. The brewery is not gone.
Other Half Brewing Company
Listed · Brewery · Brooklyn
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Sam Richardson, Matt Monahan and Andrew Burman opened this brewery in 2014. They took 4,000 square feet where Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Gowanus meet. Twenty taps pour in the room now.
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Sunken Harbor Club
Solid · Bar · Brooklyn · $$$
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Nine years as a Thursday-night party in a Red Hook bar, and now a tiki room one staircase above an 1892 landmark steakhouse.
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Radio Bakery
Destination · Bakery · Brooklyn
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" Tomatoes go in it in summer, apple slices with a bite left in them in fall, and gruyere custard under caramelized onions on the days they run the French onion soup one.
Win Son Bakery
Solid · Taiwanese-American · Williamsburg · $$
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A bacon, egg and cheese omelet wrapped in a scallion pancake instead of a roll, on Graham Avenue, from 9am until 10pm.
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