Bill Roundy’s Bar Scrawl: Lulu’s
Brooklyn Paper’s “roving cartoonist finds bars with cheap beer – and pizza!” This is a great rendition of Greenpoint’s free pizza with beer bar. What are you favorite Lulu’s toppings?
View ArticleHomestyle Thai Food at No Name Bar in Greenpoint is Cheap & Delicious
I’d heard about the ramen in the basement of No Name Bar but never made it down. Now they have a full Thai menu, and it’s delicious and cheap! When friends want to go out for Thai I usually go, “Meh.”...
View ArticleDine Out Williamsburg (and Greenpoint) For Red Cross Sandy Relief – Thursday...
I have heard form many local Brooklyn bars and restaurants owners that in the wake of Sandy, their businesses have been booming. With no L or G train, they have captive and hungry audiences. Now is...
View ArticleWhere to Go: Dine Out Williamsburg (and Greenpoint) Today! Support Sandy...
There are a ton of restaurants, bars and coffee shops in Williamsburg and Greenpoint that are participating in Dine Out Williamsburg, in which they pledge to donate a percentage of gross profit to Red...
View ArticleCall For Chefs/Home Cooks & Venues: Greenpointers Monthly Sunday Supper
Greenpointers is excited to announce a monthly dining event for 2013. Every first Sunday we will host a casual Sunday Supper at a different Greenpoint location with a new chef each month. Think of it...
View ArticleWorld’s ‘Rarest Beer’ at Brouwerij Lane
A few years ago, a beer store quietly nestled into the space between the old Coco 66/68 and the corner delis. Ever since, Brouwerij Lane has managed to bring to the neighborhood access to and love for...
View ArticleHappy 1 Year Anniversary One Stop Beer Shop! Party Tonight (12/27)
Can you believe that One Stop Beer Shop (134 Kingsland Ave) opened a year ago? Come celebrate tonight Thursday, December 27th at 9pm. Tito’s Vodka and Bulldog Gin are sponsors for the night, which...
View ArticleMeet Brian: Your Local Beertender
So its January 2nd, the official day to be sick of hearing people say happy new year, and I’m walking back to my apartment. It’s almost midnight, and I’m making the decision that the hoodie/peacoat...
View ArticleBest Bars To NOT Watch The Superbowl In Greenpoint
Until I wrote yesterday’s post on Best Bars To Watch The Super Bowl in Greenpoint, I honestly had no idea what teams are in the Superbowl and more pathetically who is performing at the halftime show....
View ArticleUh Oh! Coco is Reopening (3/22)
Thanks to our twitter buddy @boredvegetarian for taking this shot on the door of Coco66 that says they are reopening this Friday 3/22. She also wonders, “How long before they get shut down again?” Good...
View ArticleBibimbop & Iron Maiden: Korean Menu Debuts At Greenpoint’s No Name Bar Today...
You’ve been asking and now we’re telling! A new Korean menu, inspired by owner Jessica Wertz’s mother’s homestyle cooking is debuting today at No Name Bar (597 Manhattan Ave). No we are not messing...
View ArticleMad Men Season 6 Premiere Party & Classic Cocktails at The Exley – Sunday (4/7)!
Join us Sunday, April 7th - 7pm at The Exley (1 Jackson St) for Classic Cocktails mixed by Young Nathan (the man in the middle), inspired music by Darryl St. Christopher Specht, and the 2 Hour Season...
View ArticleMy Bollywood Dreams Come True Tonight at Beloved! (4/23)
Last night (out of nowhere!) I dreamt about the final scene in Slumdog Millionaire, when the entire cast breaks out into an amazing dance routine – and the best part – I was dancing with them. (I...
View Article“Sex Below Deck”– Greenpoint’s Newest Cocktail Bar Alameda Delivers
© michael groth for hOmE Greenpoint is blowin’ up, and we all know it. Case in point: Alameda (195 Franklin St,) opened by design gurus the Haslegrave brothers, is their first brick-and-mortar space....
View ArticleBattery Harris and the DOT: A Love Story
When opening a new bar, coming away with a positive experience from a community board meeting presided over by a group hawkishly vigilant of both new liquor licenses and rapidly-vanishing parking...
View ArticleNew Orleans’ Swamp Donkeys Ass-Whipping’ Live Jass at The Exley Tonight! (6/20)
In what we hope will be the first of many live, unamplified and ass-whipping music shows, The Exley (1 Jackson St) proudly presents The New Orleans Swamp Donkey’s Traditional Jass Band. Following...
View ArticleSunday Night Guest Grilling at The Exley: Caribbean! (7/21)
Tomorrow – Sunday July 21st at 6pm begins the first in our monthly series of Sunday Night Guest Grilling at The Exley (1 Jackson St). We are pleased to have “Our Good Friend’s Mother” come by for some...
View Article‘Webcats’ Take Over Brouwerij Lane
A piece from OMG Webcats hanging at Brouwerij Lane. About 30 or so young Greenpointers lazed around Brouwerij Lane (78 Greenpoint Ave) last Thursday, drinking free craft beer from plastic cups and,...
View ArticleNew Bar, Grand Ferry, Opens Tonight
Photo by Eddy Vallante If you have any relationship with The Richardson—albeit it a one-nighter, Grand Ferry (229 Kent Ave) will feel strangely, wonderfully, familiar. And that’s because co-founders...
View Article“Blue Gas Flames And Birds Twirling” A Chat With Ed Raven On Dirck The...
Ed Raven, of Raven Importing Company and owner of Brouwerij Lane, promised that the new brewery he is opening called Grain Terminal, along with a bar/restaurant called Dirck The Norseman will be – “the...
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