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Sahadi’s settles into Industry City with success
Sahadi’s, the James Beard Award-winning specialty grocery that spans three storefronts on Atlantic Avenue, has become a part of Sunset Park’s commercial fabric after opening in Industry City two months...
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Brooklyn Bread Rises
It looks like Brooklyn Bread might have broken the jinx that affected a string of failed restaurants on the corner of First Place and Court Street, in Carroll Gardens. Their expanded deli looks like a...
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The Longshoreman makes a comeback
Sitting across from Manhattan on Columbia Street, The Longshoreman, founded by Michelle Ewan and Lisa Detwiler over a year ago, is restaurant that aspires to reach back into Carroll Gardens’ proud...
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Nintendo jazz nights and Nutella burger
Vlane Carter’s entrance into the restaurant business was an uncanny venture. Born in New Jersey and raised in the South Bronx, the restaurant owner and sci-fi author initially sought a career in law...
View ArticleDi Fara Pizza has still got it
I live down the block from Di Fara’s Pizzeria on Avenue J in Midwood, Brooklyn. I must admit that I have a love-hate relationship with Di Fara. Well, maybe annoyance is a better word than hate. Let’s...
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Getting the real stuff during the pandemic, by Michael Fiorito
There are a few genuine Italian specialty food stores left in New York City. One of them is D. Coluccio & Sons. In what used to be the center of Little Italy in Brooklyn, D. Coluccio & Sons is...
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Quinn on Books: ‘The Dairy Restaurant’ by Ben Katchor
For months now, New Yorkers have been bent out of shape, either cooped up at home or stretched thin on the front line of what’s happening during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s strange to think of the...
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When people from all walks of life need help, by George Bellows
Consuelo Morales (an alias) is in a good mood. The groceries she received at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church food pantry in Flatbush was worth the hour-long wait under the midday sun. Morelos is...
View ArticleUnder capitalism, there are ways to beat inflation, by Brian Abate and George...
Dial back a couple of years and you come to a world in complete disarray, as the mysterious Covid bug pretty quickly disrupted our normal way of life. In the space of a week or so in March 2020, the...
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Purple People Eater inspires Jam’It Bistro interview, by Brian Abate
While I was distributing the Star-Revue last month, a purple plant outside of Jam’It Bistro, 367 Columbia Street, caught my eye. After going inside and dropping off papers, I chatted about the plant...
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