Wolf and Deer 74 5th Avenue, Brooklyn 718-398-3181 No Website Cheese and Charceuterie, Cocktails, Wine and a few Beers on Tap, Brooklyn Every time we walked past Wolf and Deer the thought was: “We have to stop in here.” So after the third time, we finally walked in. Small and cozy, Wolf and Deer is about 10 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Its warm brick walls, tin ceiling, and “U” shaped bar is part

Lobo NYC 188 5th Avenue, Park Slope 718-636-8886 www.LoboNYC.com Tex-Mex, Cocktails, Brooklyn Margarita hour!!!! We are always down for a margarita and guacamole pitstop. A+K seem to have an absurd obsession with guacamole. But really, who doesn’t? K+M strolled for quite a few hours and worked up an appetite! We made our way from Smith St. in Cobble Hill over to 5th Avenue in Park Slope. We reunited with A+L and began our search for

Bierkraft 191 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope 718-230-7600 www.Bierkraft.com Specialty Beer Market, Deli Counter, Brooklyn   Ask yourself a couple of questions: Do you like beer? Do you love cheese? Do you crave simple but amazing sandwiches? Do you enjoy hanging out with friends outside while eating and drinking? How about some homemade brownie ice cream sandwiches? If you answered ‘yes’ to just one of these questions, you should make a trip to Bierkraft and check

Diner 85 Broadway, Williamsburg 718-486-3077 www.DinerNYC.com American, Cocktails, Brooklyn L can recall working in Williamsburg about 13 years ago during the reconstruction of the Williamsburg Bridge. L would arrive around 6am, park the car on Broadway and walk upstairs underneath the bridge to the construction office. L recalls passing the old, beaten up, decrepit and nearly falling-over diner on the corner of Broadway and Berry Street. Little did L know that a short time after

Maison Premiere 298 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg 347-335-0446 www.MaisonPremiere.com Oysters, Cocktails, Brooklyn You can find anything in Brooklyn, and like a strange car picking you up on the side of a dark street in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, passing through the unassuming front doors of Maison Premiere is like your personal secret portal into 1920s France.  Once you enter, you will wonder why you can’t make a new, romantic, oyster-filled life inside and leave your old

Brooklyn Brewery 79 North 11th Street, Williamsburg 718-486-7422 www.BrooklynBrewery.com Beer, Bring Your Own Food, Brooklyn It can be said that “what goes around comes around” or “history repeats itself” or “things go in cycles”. In the early 1900s most all of the beer drank in New York City was a product of its many local breweries. Somewhere between then and the mid-1980s the large breweries from the Mid-West had become staples of every restaurant and

Cadaqués Tapas Bar 188 Grand Street, Williamsburg 718-218-7776 www.cadaquesny.com Spanish Tapas, Wine and Sangria, Brooklyn In classic tradition, the spontaneous finds are always the best ones. While out exploring Bedford Avenue, as we love to do, we strayed off the beaten path and stumbled upon Cadaques, a lively tapas bar on Grand Street. The sounds of the live flamenco trio in the background invited us in! The loud stomping of flamenco footwear ensured us that

Beer Table 427 B 7th Avenue, Brooklyn (Between 14th and 15th St) 718-965-1196 www.BeerTable.com Snacks, Specialty Beers, Brooklyn (New Grand Central Terminal Location Coming Soon) Do one thing and do it well. It’s not the actual motto of Beer Table but it might as well be. Rare and specialty beer is the delicious backbone of this Park Slope establishment. It’s not exactly a bar, nor is it a tavern, saloon or pub.  It’s more wine