Brooklyn Heights Blog

The Danish Seamen’s Chuch [102 Willow Street] will hold its annual Danish Fair today and tomorrow.  Get yer Glogg on!

Photos by Karl Junkersfeld

A BHB tipster writes in:

Nothing yet on the yellow Health Department signs adorning Le Petit Marche?

Matthew Parker comments:

Earlier this morning I walked by Le Petite Marche on Henry St. There are two Board of Health signs on the front windows ordering the restaurant closed.

I saw workers inside cleaning up.

NYC  Department of Health public records show that the restaurant racked up 23 violation points on November 11.   Read more »

BHB newshound “AW” sends us this tip:

I was walking home tonight down Columbia Place and noticed that one of the formerly empty storefronts was no longer empty. I stopped and talked to the person there. Apparently it’s going to be a coffee shop and will be open this Thursday. It’s called Iris Cafe. As a resident of Riverside Apartments, I for one am very excited!

The Iris Cafe is one of the new restaurants revitalizing the Riverside Apartments strip.   An Italian restaurant is planning to open soon in the old River Deli space.

In a sidebar piece about the Brooklyn restaurant renaissance yesterday, the NY Post listed Noodle Pudding as one of 5 eateries “you should check out“.  The others - Vinegar Hill House in DUMBO, Marlow & Sons in Williamsburg, Tanoreen in Bay Ridge and The General Greene in Fort Greene.

NY Post:  ”It is amazing the change in Brooklyn in the last dozen years or thereabouts. I’m going to have dinner tonight in Brooklyn,” Hizzoner said yesterday as he announced the city’s deal to buy land in Coney Island. ”Time and time again, when I say, ‘Where do you want to go to have dinner?’ Friends who’ve come from out of town pick restaurants in Brooklyn, and that is really different,” the mayor added. ”They didn’t used to before. Maybe one or two in [Brooklyn] Heights, but Brooklyn has really come back.”

So is Noodle Pudding THE restaurant you’d recommend friends and tourists check out in Brooklyn Heights?  BHB contributor Karl Junkersfeld, who sent us this link, would agree.  Us?  We’d say Jack the Horse in the neighborhood or Henry Public in Cobble Hill among others.  How about you?

As previously announced here, the Plymouth Church Yankee Fair will be held at the Church, Hicks and Orange Streets, tomorrow from 10:00 to 4:00, rain or shine. We have just received the following message from the Church: Read more »

Photo: Tiger in the Kitchen

Brooklyn Heights resident and food blogger Cheryl “Tiger in the Kitchen” Tan recently posted a recipe for Chicken Wing Stew.  We haven’t cooked it up yet (ahem… paging Mrs. Fink) but if Ms. Tan’s photos of the dish are any indication it looks outrageously good.   Find the recipe here.

Every year around this time, Brooklyn Heights mainstay Henry’s End cooks up its  Wild Game Festival.  The Village Voice interviews chef/owner Mark Lahm about what’s on the menu this year:

Village Voice: But you’d be hard-pressed to find much game in New York restaurants, aside from a smattering of wild boar Bolognese sauces, a few plates of bunny here and there, and a special game menu that Picholine has done in the past. But in Brooklyn, Henry’s End chef/owner Mark Lahm is quietly cooking an extensive wintertime game menu, which he’s been running October through March since 1986. Reindeer, bear, turtle, kangaroo, and antelope–if you can eat it, Lahm has served it. Fork in the Road chatted with Lahm about the ins and outs of cooking and serving game.

Our pal PezzKandy caught this pic of Martha Stewart filming her TV show  at the Brooklyn Flea in DUMBO today.   Reports earlier this week suggested she’d be hitting Saturday’s flea in Fort Greene but we guess yesterday’s weather moved the whole shebang to our neck of the woods today.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz took to the steps of Borough Hall to announced that a total of $2 million has been secure to fund Brooklyn’s first gay center, the Brooklyn Community Pride Center. Read more »

BHB pal/ Celine Dion maven/ Brooklyn Heights resident Chuck Taylor and his better half/composer Ayhan Sahin checked out the new Armando’s Restaurant last night.  The verdict:

Smoking Nun: Ayhan and I celebrated my birthday a day late, since he was working all weekend while I was in the Hamptons. Had a grand dinner at Italian restaurant Armando’s just two blocks from home on Montague Street. The joint was originally founded in 1936, shuttered in 2008, and following the hasty retreat of pitiful replacement sammich chain Spicy Pickle, Armando’s modernized its space and reopened Monday, Sept. 28, with a glorious, upscale menu and a bar that is open until midnight—something sorely lacking in this ultra-conservative nabe of Brooklyn Heights. Truly felt like being somewhere brand new in a locale only steps from home. Grade-A experience.