Shopping website Racked offers its take on “Nine Cooking Supply Stores for a Well-Stocked Kitchen,” and includes A Cook’s Companion at 197 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights as a pick for “shops catering to the adventurous home cook.” The site says of the popular destination: “A foodie’s dream, this Brooklyn shop offers quality goods, often […]
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Plymouth Church Underground Thrift Extends “Stuff-A-Sack” Clearance
Thanks to the success of its “$25 Stuff-A-Sack” event last weekend, the Underground Thrift Store at Plymouth Church has extended its Winter Clearance Sale on Sunday, March 4. Hours are 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Location: 65 Hicks Street, between Orange and Cranberry. Shoppers can purchase as many $25 Underground Thrift Store Totes (a $5 value) […]
Damascus Bakery getting some competition
Apparently hookah pipes don’t pay the rent; a new middle eastern bakery is promised on Atlantic Avenue in a basement store under MOCHA, the hookah lounge / cafe / ice cream parlor in the former FOUNTAIN CAFE space.
New Neighbor: Waterfront Wines Opens at One Brooklyn Bridge Park
Waterfront Wines, which signed a lease at One Brooklyn Bridge Park last April, has opened for business at the corner of Furman St and Joralemon St. The wine shop is specializing in smaller-production domestic and international wineries, and has a regular schedule of wine tastings and events. Deliveries will be made both to One BBP […]
This Year, Get Her a Naughty Shakespeare Mug
The displays at CVS tell me it’s that time of the year again, and since I used up all my great gift giving ideas back in 1995, I’m always on the lookout for something a little different. As luck would have it, while investigating the story behind La Mancha this morning, I happened upon a […]
Will CVS Self-Serve Kiosks Make Life Worth Living Again?
Just went to buy some Sharpies at CVS and saw a crowd gathered near the registers. Was it an early-morning irate customer? Possible elderly shoplifter? No! The answer was even better—self-serve kiosks. Sure, it’ll take months for people to figure it out, and some never will. But if given a choice, kiosk wins with me […]
Pop-Up Shop Thurs. and Fri. on Furman
This one’s for all the moms (or moms-to-be) out there: a pop-up shop that offers chic maternity and post-maternity tunics, tanks and tops, along with jewelry, kids’ swimwear, stuffed animals and lots more. It’s the brainchild of local designer Monica Patel, herself a mom (with another on the way) who drew from her own experiences […]
Brooklyn Women’s Exchange “Holiday Thursdays” Events
Starting next Thursday, November 6, the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, a not-for-profit, volunteer organization that provides a marketplace for locally handmade craft goods, including infants’ and children’s clothing, toys, housewares and gifts, and books by local authors or about local subjects, will host its annual “Holiday Thursdays”, during which artists, craftspeople and authors will be present […]
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