Every weekend, or on a nice day off, one is faced with the following dilemma living in or passing through Williamsburg:
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a mini-haven bubble for those with a voracious appetite for brunches, outdoor seating, cafes, shopping, and people watching — or perhaps, laid back summer movie watching.
Food highlights: For brunch-seekers, Enid’s, located at 560 Manhattan Avenue, is less crowded than other brunch hot spots across the park. Enid’s offers a chill atmosphere, free unlimited coffee while you wait for a table (or once you’ve been seated), and a live DJ spinning records a level above you as you sip a mid-morning Bloody Mary or Mimosa. Enid’s brunch menu is dreamy: once there, try fried cheese grits with two eggs and a biscuit, or eggs Benedict, which will make you fall in love with eggs all over again. From the side menu, creamy white grits with cheese will satisfy whatever grits urges you were unable to fulfill elsewhere in the city.
On the North Side, Teddy’s Bar and Grill, located at 96 Berry Street, embodies a more hectic and harried atmosphere. The wait is longer, the space more crowded, the food is good, but their huge and reasonably-priced signature Bloody Marys are the main draw for most early afternoon patrons — they are a meal in themselves. Who cares about the food if you can get your hands on one or two of those?
Pizza cravings: Fornino Pizza, located at 187 Bedford Avenue, serves up one of the top five pizzas in all of New York City (other reviews of pizzerias around the tri-state area and the country will follow in future entries from this self-proclaimed avid pizza aficionado). The restaurant’s motto is “The Art and Science of Pizza” and it truly lives up to its name: their brick over pizza is consistently excellent, the crust never soggy or bland, and the toppings are fun (although even their regular margherita pies — Forninon’s offers three different varieties — use the tastiest of mozzarella cheeses). Another recommendation is their spinach pizza, which is topped with mozzarella, spinach, ricotta, pecorino, pine-nuts and white truffle oil. It is simply so outstanding that even a true pizza purist will forget that he requires marinara sauce in order for a pie to be called a “pizza.”
Dessert: forget Mr. Softee; Williamsburg will blow your mind with different types of organic ice cream served out from a Van Leeuwen street truck (usually found on Bedford Avenue along 6th or 7th Streets). The milk used is hormone-free and their cones are organic.
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