My Ditmas Park Blog

Il Fornetto2902 Emmons AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11235  (718) 332-8494  Restaurant week in Brooklyn is a fantastic time to try out new restaurants. This year we choose Il Fornetto  Il Fornetto has a beautiful location overlooking Sheepshead Bay, A big wall window allows you to watch the sailboats going ...

Financier-patisserie35 Cedar StreetNew York, NY  212 952 3838  Maybe I am old fashioned, but a pastry shop should sell pastries, not sandwiches and soups. Financier did not loose its way, it was never on the right track. This chain thinks by giving itself a French name they can become French, Mon...

Black Duck122 east 28 streetNew York, NY 212 204 5240  The Black Duck was the best rum running ship of its time and the Black Duck restaurant does its best to live up to its name sakes reputation. It comes close.  We started with the Lump Crab Cakes, which unlike most restaurants really contained...

Il Fornetto2902 Emmons AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11235  (718) 332-8494  Restaurant week in Brooklyn is a fantastic time to try out new restaurants. This year we choose Il Fornetto  Il Fornetto has a beautiful location overlooking Sheepshead Bay, A big wall window allows you to watch the sailboats going ...

New Yeah Shanghai Deluxe65 Bayard StreetNew York, NY 10013  212 566 4884  Luckily their cooking is a lot better than there spelling.  New Yeah has the run of now ordinary Chinese food, but its specials are really special. Shanghai is famous for its soup dumplings. These are steamed dumplings the ...

Piramide Mexican Restaurant499 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY718-499-0002   If you in the mood for a Mexican Restaurant, but want more than a workers luncheonette, Piramide is the place. Bright and clean, there a wide variety of dishes, even fish dishes. You know you are in a special place when you order g...

656 Marlborough RoadBrooklyn, NY Be transported to the English Utopia Movement with this Classic American Foursquare complete with English Ivy on an old brick retaining wall.  This single family house is large but not overwehlming. Perfectly located, near Newkirk Plaza, on a cul de sac, with secu...

DJERDAN BOREK 2283 65 StreetBrooklyn, NY 11204   (718) 484-3180    This Albanian dinner (Yes, I said Albanian) looks a luncheonette. It is almost as hard to find as the country, itself being on a side street and an incorrect address on the menu.  There are no hamburgers here. Instead plan to have...

Noodletown28 BoweryNew York, NY 10013 (212) 349-0923   After midnight and after a show or movie, when most if not all of the food places in Chinatown, NYC have closed down, there is Noodletown on the Corner of Bowery and Bayard Streets The atmosphere at noodletown is Chinese luncheonette when it ...

This house is large but not overwehlming. Perfectly located, near Newkirk Plaza, on a cul de sac, with security cameras and easy parkingBe transported to the English Utopia Movement with this Classic American Foursquare complete with English Ivy on an old brick retaining wall. A wonderful front y...