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Wine Glases

D.O.C. Wine Bar: A diamond in the hipster rough of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

There’s no shortage of great food in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but with an influx of giant, themed mega-restaurants, you’ll want to fine tune your foodie radar to weed out some of the mediocrity. Go small instead of big. Go old instead of new. And go where there isn’t a mob of Manhattanites loitering on the curb. [...]

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Getting Your Goat

The guinea fowl have gotten into the baby goats’ pen. Again. Annemarie has to turn off the electric fence surrounding the pen so the birds don’t fry themselves; only after she does so can her partner Kris shoo them out. Meantime, the adult goats browse and Bailey the horse grazes peacefully, while the chickens in [...]

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Cafe Mogador

101 Saint Marks Pl – Btwn 1st Ave & Ave A New York, NY 10009 212-677-2226 Brunch in Manhattan is an institution. You can do the enormous, fancy, and slightly stuffy style brunch that places like the Plaza Hotel offer (not my favorite, but it’s worth the experience; how often do you get to eat [...]

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Authentic Italian in Carroll Gardens – Caserta Vecchia

Caserta Vecchia 221 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 624-7549 A girlfriend and I met up in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn for dinner and a movie the other night. Carroll Gardens is one of my favorite neighborhoods in Brooklyn: small, friendly, and filled with an abundance of restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. (That [...]

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