Brooklyn Based Offerings at Barclays Center Expand This Season
This past weekend, several Brooklyn-based vendors debuted as part of the Brooklyn Taste program at the Barclays Center. That’s an addition of 18 new businesses since last year.
Super Markets & Shops
IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Anne Saxelby, Dairy Queen
American cheese used to mean bright orange, plastic-wrapped slices of questionable texture. Thanks to a pioneering young woman from Chicago, domestic fromage has seriously improved its reputation in recent years.
The Weekly Giveaway: Win This Sweet Bodum Press (and Scope the City’s Best Butcher Shops)
Here’s how to enter to win: Tell us about your favorite seafood shop in the comments below before midnight on Friday. Be sure to register with a real email address so we can contact you later if you win. We’ll pick a reader based on what we think is the best response. Extra points for those who lead us to best-ofs we haven’t already tracked down for our online listings.
Only in Williamsburg: Locavore Gift Baskets at the Corner Store
We probably don’t have to tell readers with tendencies toward procrastination that a great last-minute holiday gift is a few of any of the products we cover in our pages. This year that’s even easier courtesy Depanneur, the specialty foods, corner store and sandwich shop on the corner of Wythe Avenue and North Third Street in Williamsburg. The place (it’s kind of like a gourmet bodega) assembled a few not-your-grandma’s gift baskets made up of mainly locally made goods in cool old wire-frame boxes we wouldn’t mind keeping around.
Heritage Meats Opens a Shop at the Foot of the Williamsburg Bridge
Until now Brooklyn’s Heritage Foods only sold its meats directly to chefs and restaurants or online, serving as broker between small family farms who can’t afford to process their proteins and city customers who want sustainably sourced meat. Last week they moved into real brick and mortar digs, in what used to be Jeffrey’s Meat Market in the Essex Street Market.
Greene Hill Food Coop: Meet the New Shop on the Block
The photos on the storefront of the new member-owned Greene Hill Food Co-op are comprised of people from its surrounding communities, signifying the co-op’s desire…
One Polish Butcher Shop, Under New Ownership
Greenpoint gets a gastro-grocer and craft-beer retailer called Eastern District.
