This is the latest is our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. Brooklyn Bowl needs little introduction, but the Willliamsburg fixture turns one this week, so raise your glass in a happy birthday salute.
BROOKLYN BOWL
www.brooklynbowl.com
61 Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and N. 12th Sts., Williamsburg, 718-963-3369
Bar of the Day: Brooklyn Bowl
Our $1 tuna-fish lunch at an NYC cooling center
The cooling centers are open again, and this week, they’re sure to be hopping. Here’s what we found last summer, one hot August afternoon:
Today’s the first day this year that the city has opened its cooling centers, the specially designated air-conditioned havens where heat-addled New Yorkers can go for a breather. [...]
Bar of the Day: Bar Great Harry
This is the latest in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. With its prodigious on-tap and bottled selection, Bar Great Harry in Carroll Gardens is about the beer, plain and simple.
BAR GREAT HARRY
www.bargreatharry.com
280 Smith St. between Sackett & Degraw, Carroll Gardens, 718-222-1103
What it is: Hops heaven
Why we [...]
Ye asked, and ye shall receive: cut & color at the Beehive!!!
Hallelujah! Cut and Color at the Beehive for the price of a $2 raffle ticket — tonight only!
When we originally asked readers what prizes we could round up for tonight’s big raffle, reader Michelle said “a hair cut and color done by, you know, someone actually being paid to do so…with [...]
A raffle prize for the hopelessly impractical
Egg cups, $22 a pair, at Cog & Pearl, 190 Fifth Ave. at Berkeley Place, (718) 623-8200.
One definition of luxury: a material craving you wouldn’t satisfy yourself, owing to its impracticality, frivolity, unnecessary-ness… the kind of thing you hope to receive as a gift from someone who really “gets you.” If there’s a boutique [...]
Why not to pay for passport rush services
If for some reason you find yourself needing a passport renewal in, say, a week’s time, do not turn to costly expediters for help–you can save the money and get your passport yourself in an equally short time.
Bar of the Day: Brooklyn Brewery
This is the latest in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg needs little endorsement. When you’re out and about on a warm weekend, stop in for a drink or for a brewery tour to see what’s behind the beloved label.
BROOKLYN BREWERY
www.brooklynbrewery.com
79 N. 11th St. [...]
Gilt launches new NYC deals site
Watch out Groupon!
If you can’t seem to get enough offers for cheap teeth whitening and brow waxings at salons you’ve never heard of, then you’ll be thrilled that there’s a new “social” deal site in town. Gilt Groupe (friend!) has just unveiled a new NYC-centric site designed to compete with Groupon (um, [...]
Through Thursday: killer sale on Dolce Vita shoes
Normally $53, now $39.75.
I’ve been a little gun shy about posting sales because y’all are a tough crowd when it comes to deals, especially that gal who accused us of writing too often about “mink on sale.” But I’m willing to weather the slings and arrows with this one. Through Thursday,
Thomas Keller’s surprising money-saving cooking tip
Bouchon Bakery sliders. Photo courtesy of the slashfood blog.
Brooklyn foodies are praying Thomas Keller is serious about opening a Bouchon Brooklyn, which reminds me of a cooking tip from the famed chef that you don’t need to be a swell to try. Maybe it is a little hard to believe that the man [...]
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