FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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RESULTS FOR "Ice Cream"

Dining / Bars

Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain

Take the first sip of a frothy egg cream at Brooklyn Farmacy, and you instantly recognize the taste of good medicine. It helps that you are seated at a classic… read more »

Features

Eagle Street Rooftop Farm Benefit

There is a New York City circle that begins and ends with Brooklyn brothers Evan and Oliver Haslegrave (of “hOmE” design firm fame) No one is exactly sure how they… read more »

Alex and Companies

Alex Calderwood has a history of turning nothing into something. He looks at unloved and abandoned spaces with an optimistic eye, seeing potential to infuse them with new life, art,… read more »

Watermelon radish and goat cheese, topped with microgreens and a tart blood orange vinaigrette

Photo: Staff

A Delicious Improv

It was a long ride from Manhattan on the A train (running local, naturally) to BedStuy on a cold Saturday afternoon. Exiting at the Utica Avenue stop, in a completely… read more »

Blog

Camera Obscura at the Brooklyn Flea

Photo: Brooklyn Flea

Camera Obscura at the Brooklyn Flea

Though it’s not officially summer until June 21st, the weather is warm enough to warrant that distinction. That hot and sticky feeling is slowly creeping towards us. Personally speaking, the… read more »

A Visit to Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain

Take a trip back in time to your grandparent’s youth at Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain. The ice cream shop couldn’t have opened at a better time. At… read more »

Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown

Photo: Brooklyn Based

Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown

The fall season hasn’t stopped Brooklyn Based from hosting “The Big Brooklyn Pig Roast,” it might as well be summer. Next Friday evening starting at 6pm Kelly Geary… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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