Brooklyn Heights Blog

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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.

The new bar at Armando's

Chef David Ferraro has worked at several Manhattan eateries including Montparnasse and he’ll be bringing some new menu items to Armando’s [143 Montague Street] when it reopens on Monday.

The restaurant says that Ferraro will mix “contemporary and classic” Italian cuisine such dishes as Tagliatelle with Rabbit Ragu, Goat Cheese Ravioli with pine nuts and sage, Filet Mignon with with Barolo wine and porcini mashed potatoes.   The new and improved Armando’s will also feature an extensive wine list.

Doors open at 11:30am Monday for lunch.

For three Sundays in September, cars will be banned from Montague Street between Clinton and Hicks streets as the Summer Space program will once again turn the area into a pedestrian plaza, with outdoor seating and themed activities.

Organized by the Montague Street BID, the first week, September 13th will be focused on food, featuring discounts and samples from more than a dozen Montague Street eateries. September 20th will be dedicated to mind and body, with free outdoor yoga lessons and massages. Finally, September 27th will focus on games, with outdoor hula-hooping and free skateboard lessons. The events will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

This just in from “Christina” via the BHB Facebook inbox:

I wanted to tell you about the new Indian restaurant at 151 Remsen Street (used to be Curry Leaf and, more recently, East Meets West). We ordered in from there tonight and the food was AMAZING! Finally, the Heights has a decent place for curry! My husband grew up in the UK where the Indian food is a big deal, and he said it’s the best he’s had since he left there. We tried the Peshwari Naan, Chicken Vindaloo (it’s spicy spicy), Chicken Tikka Masala, Onion Bahjia and Aloo Motor Gobi. The entire meal rocked!!! A nice touch was the free rice pudding and 25% off the meal! The meal was so good, we called them mid-meal to thank them!

https://www.curryspot.com/
The Brooklyn Heights location site was under construction, but you can use the Bronx location’s menu for now.

Anyone else try Curry Spot? Thoughts?

Esquire Magazine rounds up the best fast food chains in the country this month.  While California’s In-and-Out Burger cops the top spot, Five Guys Burgers and Fries gets an honorable mention.

Quoted in the piece is Brooklyn Heights resident and Braeburn chef Brian Bistrong: Read more »

We munched on our last Fascati pizza pie this afternoon. The Fascati gang are off on their annual holiday until September 8.
What do you do for pizza during August in the Heights?