The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

or on manhattan ave. there are like 6 thai places around us, and they're all lousy.

i just called sorrel; not closed, btw.

The good thing about moving into Brooklyn Heights studio is being in walking distance to work. The bad thing is that Pace has a dorm across the street. The good thing is that my window doesn't face the street. The other good thing is that the Coen Bros., Brad Pitt, George Clooney movie is taping in the nabe this week.

sorrel was "just ok". i guess i should have had lower expectations for a $25 prix fixe but i thought they were somehow associated with 360 in red hook who do a way, way way better job.

"did"...I think 360 is gone.

Yup, 360 is gone. The chef/owner decided he had enough, which is too bad because I never made it there.

Clooney got in a motorcycle accident in Jersey last night, so it looks like he maybe won't be filming in the nabe next week. Boo!

do you work for Page 6 or something?

I went to 360 once, it was good.

hi aaron!!

Heya Lauren!! Are you still at the same phone #? I owe you a phone call.

And yes I gotta go write some blind items now. WHICH LANKY CELEB WAS SEEN CANOODLING WITH A MUCH, MUCH OLDER MAN LAST NIGHT AT BUTTER??? (hint: it was one of the Olsen twins)

Hay guise when does the Red Hook Fairway close on Sundays?

sir ian mclennan narrates a video describing the coming golden age of downtown brooklyn

http://tinyurl.com/229gue

omg

haha. It's the golden age for Euro expats, particularly those who use the STERLING M8.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.28.02/gifs/public-eye2-0209.jpg
in 2012 a beautiful mob of real estate developers, bistro owners and dog walkers will storm the walt whitman houses, burning them to the ground in a golden flame, making way for sorely needed baby boutiques and wine stores to serve the visionary inhabitants of frank geary's post-apocalyptic fever-dream!

I went to see a movie at BAM a couple weeks ago and when we came out of the subway at hanson place we saw a black town car with a SIR IAN MCKELLEN placard in the window and were all o_O

i thought he traveled in a sled pulled by rentboys.

wau

on, dancer! on, prancer!

where in or around ft greene to get a tea ball... go!

http://www.culinarycultures.com/Images/Progressive%20Prod/GT-3931.jpg

a cook's companion on atlantic btw clinton and court.

target

target you think?

i considered cooks companion but decided to try for closer - i got some tongs there once.

of course i could hit sahadis on the same trip hmmmm

OM NOM NOM FALALFEL.

ii love the demeanor of the bulk goods dudes: 27.. 27... 27... 27 IS DEAD! 28...

i bet target would have one, but then again it is a shitty time of year to go to target.

don't forget pistachio baklava and spinach pies from damascus bakery while you're at it.

i bet target would have one, but then again it is a shitty time of year towhen you go to target.

^^^ fixed

omg so much awz

half a pound of tamari almonds what else? pint of lebonese olives what else?

FIGS. DATES.

and since it's so chilly and windy. you could stop at the middle eastern place on court right near atlantic for a bowl of lamb broth with foamy fenugreek stuff on top!

ooh yah. the B61 stops right in front of there too.

target is right down the street and its not thats bad in the middle of the day and i do need toothbrushes...

im not convinced they have them tho

I want Bedouin Tent NOW. Will settle for place on 44th St.

leg of lamb sandwich yuuuuuuum

that one falafel place off flatbush near yummy taco aint bad either

guys, tell me if Franny's is as amazing as it sounds. I want clam pizza.

tastes good - overpriced and annoying tho

serous case of the foodie over explainies going on there

this prosciutto is from an obscure carpegnaian producer who keeps his animals in a mahogany shack during the spring months the pig was named bill

yeah it's good but crazy expensive for pizza

Two for the Teapot or whatever it's called, UK style tea supplies and crisps and crap, on Clinton off of Atlantic.

hmmmm

i went to target on xmas eve last year -- it was like lord of the flies

yow that sounds terrible

fyi never wear a red shirt to the place

mook, did you oversleep til the 24th?

yeah, pretty much

hi. i love going to target at like 8:30 am. peaceful.

btw was anyone else upset about the Home and Garden place closing? It was in the mall next to where the Jewelery store is

just goto buffalo wild wings instead