Dining speakeasy 's

The Dining section of the NY Times has an article today about restaurants not located in traditional venues, ie they're located in someone's house. The article mentions Sara Newberry, a cookbook editor who lives in Prospect Heights, and sometimes has 10 friends over for dinner who each pay $40-50 bucks for her and her friends to cook.

Very similar to Coach Peaches, the original Fort Greene speakeasy we wrote about over 3 years ago.

Barrette on Vanderbilt has a deal for Restaurant Week

According to Time Out NY, Barrette has a $25 special:

Red Hook’s Sixpoint Craft Ales is teaming with Clinton Hill’s Brown Betty Cafe to cook up a—beat this—$25 four-course meal with beer pairings and burlesque show on Thursday 17 at Prospect Heights’ pastie-twirling watering hole Barrette. Highlights include watercress and grilled-peach salad with Righteous Rye ale, shrimp-and-corn bisque with Sweet Action Ale (one of the 100 Best Things we tasted last year) and a performance from Naughtia Nice (pictured), the first-ever Miss Sweet Action. Betcha won’t see that at Eleven Madison Park. R.S.V.P. to 917-378-2454

The Smoke Joint, Bed-Stuy edition

According to the folks at eater.com, the owner of the Smoke Joint and Little Piggy Market (pictured at left), is scouting a location in Bed-Stuy for a satellite location of the Smoke Joint.

Union Market - fraud alert

Via racked, we learn from Gotham City Insider that one of Union Market's trucks was caught double-parked next to Rossman's Fruits in the very unsexy environs of 26th Street and 3rd Avenue in Sunset Park.

I hope Union Market issues a rebuttal soon, or their business is about to take a hit from this consumer..

Greene Grape strikes back on prices

In response to the question regarding their prices, a Greene Grape owner has responded:

"The best deal no one really knows about is that any unsold pastries are 1/2
off after 8pm until we close at 9.
...
I know some fish prices off-hand and we have Tilapia at $10.99 a pound and Arctic Char at $12.99 a pound. Fresh baguettes (delivered daily) are $1.99. We do not yet have our cheese, charcuterie, dairy, fresh produce or chilled beverage cases but they're coming in the next couple of weeks!"

Sneak peek at Greene Grape Provisions

From clintonhillblog.com, here's a sneak peek at the latest yuppie market, Greene Grape Provisions.

As commenter #6, Lauren, said, "can anyone tell me what prices are like? Reasonable or totally overpriced?"

Another Fort Greene market coming?

Is there another gourmet grocery coming to Fort Greene? In the past few months, Fresh Gardens has already opened on Fulton and South Elliott while Greene Grape Provisions is opening up soon.

According to this craigslist call for help, someone is looking for a partner for a "fancy food..gourmet store."

Have control of an ideal corner retail location in Downtown Brooklyn. Space is approximately 2,200 SF including basement. Additional storage space for inventory is available.

Need partner(s) for venture with a "twist" on the gourmetl store concept. Concept to include a cafe, sale of sandwichs, salads, prepared meals, baked goods, wine, cheese and a selection of limited gourmet products. Concept is to offer a fancy food experience within a limited space.

Want experienced gourmet food manager and chef/baker to help develop and run. Salary and substantial points available for the right candidates.

Looking for candidates with fancy food background from Dean & Deluca, Eli Zabars, etc.

Send resumes and references.

Greene Grape Provisions

The signage is up for Greene Grape Provisions at the corner of South Portland and Fulton in Fort Greene. Does anyone know when the store opens and whether there will be a butcher onsite?

Cafe Lafayette on the brink?

The picture that this Brooklyn Eagle article paints is not pretty. Nadir Khelifi purchased the restaurant in 2005 after it was named one of the top-10 dirtiest restaurants in the city. Business suffered, so Khelifi did what any enterprising restaurateur would do - he plans on closing it down and rebranding it as a tapas restaurant, much like his other restaurant at the old Liquors space on Dekalb and Adelphi.

Prospect Heights CSA

Here's a flickr photo set of the 2007 Prospect Heights CSA.

Week 1 of the Prospect Heights CSA

Here's the bounty from the first week of the Prospect Heights CSA. The missus complained about the small amount of food for the money, but that was before she found out that the farmer, Windflower Farms, lost a lot of the crops in a hailstorm.

One herb plant is unidentifiable while the other is a dill/parsley plant. There was also romaine lettuce, some beets, scallions and a pint of strawberries.

Zaytoons opening up on Vanderbilt

Prospect Heights gets an outpost of the Zaytoons on Smith Street and on Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene.

Click here for chowhound commentary on the other Zaytoon's locations.

Smoke Joint expansion?

As rumoured on the Clinton Hill Blog, is the Smoke Joint expanding to the former Subway's space, which then became Pan y Mas? Here's a look from the South Elliot side.

Habana Outpost looking for a few good workers

Bartenders and bussers are encouraged to go to Habana Outpost's open call on Monday April 30 for jobs.

Chowhound manifesto

I promise never to go to Franny's again. Instead, I promise to check out Cheryl's Global Soul in the near future.