10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day eateries
Ghenet means "Yes, I'll sleep with you but not until you wash your hands" in Ethiopian. Photo by Serious Eats. Dear Serious Eats web site, we hate slideshows, unless they’re celebrity plastic surgery...
View ArticleA fancy butcher’s guide to cheap meat and how to cook it
Technically that is cheese, yes, but doesn't our meat expert Andrew Dorsey look handsome in this shot? Photo by Rachel DeLetto. Brokesters may not think of fancy places like Marlow & Daughters when...
View ArticleThe best Italian food under $10 in Bensonhurst
The outside of Lioni, where they serve meat 140 ways. Bensonhurst, like much of the rest of Brooklyn, is an area in flux. Take a stroll down 18th Ave. or 86th St., and you’ll notice that what was once...
View ArticleLet’s dish: Does a restaurant grade matter to you?
Ceol on Smith Street had some fun with their grade. Via Eater. When you see that ominous ‘C’ brooding in the window of your favorite grungy taqueria, does it make you turn and walk back to the safety...
View ArticlePrice checking Bon Appetite’s best new BK restaurants
Brooklyn, as read about in USA Today. Brooklyn has definitively trounced Manhattan as the city’s hot spot for new restaurants, which is apparently a big deal if you’re into that sort of thing and not...
View ArticleSmile and serve cheese: Free photos for restaurant workers
Photos for foodies. Not being a person who works in food or has any desire to ever have my picture taken, I asked Brokelyn’s resident wait staff correspondent Sue why someone in the restaurant industry...
View ArticleNew service app for diners who can’t wait
Will this new app facilitate rudeness on everyone’s part? Via Lost in Idaho. This week in robots coming for our jobs: an app to assist (or replace?) your waiter. The Brooklyn Paper found a DUMBO techie...
View ArticleHow I saved $10,000 in one year by not tipping
Um, isn’t this your job after all? [UPDATE: 4:30pm: After publishing this post this morning, we heard a lot of feedback from you, and we have decided that this piece does not meet Brokelyn's editorial...
View ArticleNow casting: an opportunity to get screamed at by Gordon Ramsay
Chef Ramsay, patiently explaining why he’s about to headbutt a restaurant owner There’s something really sad about walking past an empty restaurant, more sad than walking past an empty bar or deli....
View ArticleSee restaurants’ letter grades before you get there, with Eatify
Good enough to eat even if it gets an “F”. Photo by Dave Colon If you’re making dinner plans on the go or exclusively on the internet, you might not have time to see if the well-reviewed place on Yelp...
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