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Dine in Brooklyn starts today!

Brooklyn’s own restaurant week, Dine in Brooklyn, starts today, and here’s a colorful PDF of all the participating restaurants. Those in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO are listed below.

The restaurant week is a great deal — between today and April 2, diners pay $23 for a three-course meal, but reservations need to be made in advance. This year, some restaurants are even offering a $23 dinner for two, and others are offering a $23 2-for-1 brunches.

(Correction: We incorrectly linked to 2008′s Dine in Brooklyn list earlier; our apologies for any confusion.)

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Foodies, start your engines! Dine in Brooklyn starts on March 23

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The annual Dine in Brooklyn week begins on March 23, and five Brooklyn Heights restaurants will be participating.

Between March 23 and April 2, diners can get a three-course meal for $23 at nearly 200 of the borough best’s restaurants. And, some restaurants are offering brunch for $23 per couple, including Café Buon Gusto and Eamonn’s.
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BHA Annual Meeting Live Blog

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Watch this space tonight starting at 7:30pm for BHB's Live Blog from the BHA's Annual Meeting. 

7:41pm: meeting underway! they just finished reading off all the dignitaries attending. Mostly, its just their minions.

7:45pm: brooklyn bridge park!

7:47pm: tobacco warehouse – bha against privatization and tear-down.

they are also against noise. the next few years "exciting and terrifying"! Continue Reading →

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BHA Annual Meeting Tonight

Another year, another group of honorees tonight at the Brooklyn Heights Association's Annual Meeting.  Among those honored tonight will be Sammy from Pet Emporium and the owners of Le Petit Marche. BHB's invite to be honored was clearly lost in the mail again this year.

New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman will be the keynote speaker.

The meeting is open to the general public and will be held tonight at 7:30 pm at St. Francis College Auditorium 180 Remsen Street.  For more information call 718-858-7193.

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B’Paper Big on Le Petit Marche

Brooklyn Paper food writer Tina Barry's year end round up of good eats in the borough includes a mention of Le Petit Marche:

Brooklyn Paper: Digesting 2007: It’s not like Brooklyn Heights is teaming with great restaurants, so when one comes along that has everything working for it, people notice. Le Petit Marche is the whole package: A great location, a room that channels a French bistro — yet isn’t kitschy, and owners who are friendly without being overbearing and know how to train wait staff.

And there was that chef.

One cold night last winter, Robert Weiner fed me onion soup — with a broth so intense and onions so caramelized — it brought tears to my eyes. Then there was a lamb shank with rosemary-scented white beans and a bouillabaisse that put other 2007 renditions of this dish to shame.

Let’s hope that the new chef, Dominick Rappa, is equally talented.

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Open Thread Wednesday 12/26/07

 

Let's take this opportunity to discuss the top Brooklyn Heights stories of 2007 -

Love Lane Condos 

20 Henry Street

Facelift at Le Petit Marche 

It was a play… in someone's house

The little house that couldn't sell

Clooney! Pitt! The Burn After Reading film shoot

Fire at 42 Remsen

Cadman Plaza Park Reno 

Brooklyn Bridge Park 

… and whatever else you think was big nabe news in 2007!

Comment below. 

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NoHe Food Scene in B’Paper

Heights Lowdown writer Juliana Bunim rounds up the Fall offerings simmering this season in the red hot North Heights food district:

Brooklyn Paper: Food Delights…:  Jack the Horse Tavern on Hicks and Cranberry streets will axe its cool summer soups, red snapper and Mediterranean salads in favor of toasty warm soups like apple butternut squash.

“You have to be more creative in the fall with root vegetables,” said chef-owner Tim Oltmams.

Oltmams said he gets daily requests for the braised short ribs, a favorite from last winter that will be making a comeback this Wednesday, along with roasted Brussel sprouts.

But the summer stock isn’t completely gone. Oltmams said he plans on using heirloom tomatoes and corn until the freeze hits his New England supplier.

Also covered in the piece are Oven and Le Petit Marche.

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Eagle – NoHe Food Scene is Hot

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the North Heights food scene is booming (just like we did in March).  The paper focuses its piece mostly on the reinvented "Corner of Cranberry" ventures, notably the recently opened Oven.  It touches briefly upon the real drivers of this renaissance — Jack the Horse Tavern and Le Petit Marche as well as nabe mainstays Henry's End and Noodle Pudding (which is enjoying a bump thanks to a new chef).

Brooklyn Eagle: Henry Street Becomes a New Restaurant Row: The area has seen a proliferation of new food establishments recently starting with The Blue Pig ice cream parlor, which opened a year and a half ago.

Chris Fehlinger, owner and manager of Oven, which occupies one of three storefronts at 60 Henry St., says the area is “the most vibrant I’ve seen it in 10 years.” Based on his success, Fehlinger already wants to expand Oven before the five-year lease runs out.

Fehlinger credits the success of his restaurant, and the overall improvement of the area, to this end of Henry Street becoming something of “a destination” and the increase in the number of young couples. Two restaurants, Henry’s End and Noodle Pudding, have been successful there for several years, and they were joined in the past year by the French bistro, Le Petit Marché.

A person identified as "Alex" (no last name) from Uncommon Grounds sheds some light on the cafe's decision this week to renovate:

“Uncommon Grounds hasn’t found its identity, some kinks are being worked out,” he said. Uncommon Grounds, which gained popularity with nighttime music shows, is undergoing renovations and switching to an after-work wine bar.

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Le Petit Marky

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"Jenni" writes to the BHB Inbox:

My finance and I were eating a late dinner at Le Petit Marche last night..around 10pm.  There were two other tables in the restaurant.  One of them was Marky Ramone, long time drummer of The Ramones, eating and talking "biz" with another long haired dude in sunglasses and two totally 80's women in their forties.  All with THICK Queens accents…it was awesome. Alas, i was not brave enough to take a photo.

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Daily News Gives Hizzoner Bum Advice; Fink Challenges Him to Trivia & Bocce

bloombergbocce.jpgThe New York Daily News makes some recommendations to Mayor Bloomberg on where to entertain himself while working at this temporary office in Downtown Brooklyn.  However New York's Picture Newspaper leaves out a few joints that Hizzoner should check out including N'eights staples Noodle Pudding and Henry's End as well as strong newcomers Jack the Horse Tavern and Le Petit Marche. Not to mention that Bloomie is welcome to challenge Homer, Qfwfq, Claude Scales, Captain Jack, EJ, Risi and the rest of the regulars at the next Dick Swizzle Sudden Death Trivia Gameshow on July 18 at Magnetic Field. And as the photo on the left suggests, Mr. Bloomberg loves bocce. If Hizzoner thinks he can handle the stiff competition from BHB's team Brigate Bocce we challenge him and 3 staffers of his choice to a game at FloydNY anytime in the next two weeks.

New York Daily News: You're Gonna Love Brooklyn: But there's plenty of shopping all around – from the tony shops of Montague St. to the discount palaces at Fulton Mall to the hip boutiques of Court and Smith Sts.

On a rainy day, you can catch a flick at the UA Court St., the borough's loudest movie theater. But on a clear afternoon, you can take a free dip at the barge pool between Piers 4 and 5 – which boasts sweet views of your old home in lower Manhattan.

Elsewhere, Mayor Bloomberg and gal pal Diana Taylor can watch the sun set at the Fulton Ferry Landing at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and share a pie at Grimaldi's, one of Sinatra's favorites and just a jaunt from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

But if it's hot dogs you're craving, don't bother making the trip to Coney Island: The lines at the Nathan's Famous at the food court on Court St. are much shorter.

And before going back to Manhattan, you might want to rub elbows with all the Brooklyn lawyers and district attorney employees at O'Keefe's Bar and Grill, also on Court St.

Update: Brooklyn Eagle reports on Mayor Bloomberg's first Brooklyn press conference.

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Oven – Not So Hot?

The much anticipated Oven at 60 Henry Street has been open for business since mid-week. People posting on restaurant website Chowhound are giving it mixed reviews:

"Peter" posted:

Walked by Oven last night and it was open and relatively full. (I skipped it and went to Petite Marche where we each had a solid Steak Frite)

Anyone been?

P.S. It's kind of odd. They have those wooden venetian blinds down — but rotated so you could see in — but it still blocked a lot of the view inside. We both got all the way past without even noticing it was open until one of us saw it out of the corner of our eye and doubled-back. They might want to do something about that.

"fishermb" adds: I walked by there around 9:30 last night and there were only people at 2 tables, it was dead. Might try it tonight, or will get around to it some time over the weekend.

Have you been? Planning?

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Open Thread Wednesday

Blue Pig, Interrupted

Lots of things to talk about this week and I'm expecting lots of chatter from the BHB community on:

Moxie Spot? Does that sound like a "family friendly" restaurant? 

We know you're ready for Busy Chef and Oven to open on Henry, but a cigar bar? Is that true?

Anyone here on the coop board  know what the deal is at 80 Cranberry? When's the scaffolding coming down? What's up with your storefronts?

Remember the Laundry Bag Man of Court Street

How 'bout that Le Petit Marche facade

We'll be starting a new series "Heroes of the Heights" soon. Who should we interview?

Brooklyn Paper vs. Brooklyn Eagle. 

The Sublet Experiment is next week in the nabe. It's a PLAY in someone's APARTMENT. We'll be there. Join us.

And tonight BHB's Homer Fink and Qfwfq will be vying for valuable cash and prizes at Dick Swizzle's Sudden Death Trivia Challenge at Magnetic Field. The fun starts at 8pm.  See you there. 

 

Photo: Blue Pig, Interrupted  by Mrs. Fink via BHB Photo Club on Flickr

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Le Petit Marche: Reviewed

Since we haven't officially reviewed the place, Brooklyn heights blogger/raconteur/bhblog favorite son Claude Scales did the work for us: Continue Reading →

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North Heights Food Scene Heats Up

As the newfangled and resized New York Observer is saying kaddish for Montague Street nightlife, Mrs. Fink and I were first hand witnesses to what could be the nascent stages of a booming food scene in the North Heights last night.

On a cold and snowy night, JtH was hopping with activity into the "wee hours" (that means after 10pm on Hicks Street). In what could be compared to seeing Bourdain, Battali and Flay hanging out back in the 90s at Babbo, Bolo or Les Halles, BHB noticed Henry's End executive chef Mark Lahm hobnobbing with the ponytailed culinary bard of Jack the Horse Tavern, Tim Oltmans, last night. Could we have been present at the birth of the NoHe* food scene? 

As for dinner, Mrs. Fink and I enjoyed splitting the pizza special (grilled zucchini, ricotta, prosciutto, arugula with a sprinking of gran padina), hanger steak and mac and cheese. Cocktails for the evening were the tequila based El Diablo and the gin based Behind the Knees, both expertly made by Damon, King of All North Heights bartenders. It's undeniable, JtH gets better every time we visit.

Next, we'll take Qfwfq to Henry's End for a nice Steak Diane. Maybe we'll see the mysterious Food Maestro "partners" enjoying the crab cakes with a nice bottle of 2004 Obsidian Ridge. Or perhaps Daniela from Le Petit Marche will be there tucking into a Chocolate Confusion for dessert. You never know… only in NoHe….only in NoHe.

 

*Fink thought up NoHe, so when the MSM inevitably steal that nom de nabe, please credit accordingly.

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Le Petit Marche Reviewed

lpm.jpgWhile BHB is reserving its opinion on Le Petit Marche until we've rustled up the funds to have another meal there (our first time there was not special enough to write about), Brooklyn Paper gives the new eatery a favorable review this week:

Brooklyn Paper: To Market: We loved the “jumbo lump crabmeat salad,” too, its lightly chilled ingredients a refreshing counterpoint to the bold soup. Weiner tops diced mango, crunchy red onion and a bit of jalapeno pepper with plump pieces of the crustacean. The bright chive oil dressing and the cinnamon-like quality of the fruit accentuate the saline freshness of the fish. Our waiter smiled when he cleared away the bare plate.

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