The new Brooklyn Heights hotel restaurant continues to serve its California Italian fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Expect familiar Barbuto plates like the roasted chicken with salsa verde (JW pollo al forno), the kale salad, and the gnocchi in hazelnut pesto. New dishes include the Pizza Brooklyn, a pie topped with Acme smoked salmon, avocado, creme fraiche, and caviar; and the Pasta Bambini, a fettuccine with butter and Parmesan. The big 210-seat space features industrial details paired with greenery. There’s also the Barbuto Garden, which offers its own bites and beers menu. Waxman first opened Barbuto in 2004 in the West Village, then reopened it in 2001 in a new neighborhood location.
Dead Rabbit opens its Jersey City bar
The group behind cocktail bar the Dead Rabbit opens Jersey City bar San Patricios on Friday, September 19, at 8 Erie Street, at Grove Street. The Mexican Irish cantina pub pairs tacos (fish and chips, beef birria) and tortas with drinks (margaritas, aguas frescas with optional booze, and an Irish coffee with tequila and Irish whiskey).
Sometimes we need nice things
There’s a Staten Island bodega manager who is rewarding neighborhood kids with free food and drinks for their good report card grades. At Zack’s Finest Deli & Grocery, Wail “Wally” Alselwi will give kids free food and drinks in exchange for proof of those high grades, and if they get above 90 percent, he gives them $100 and a T-shirt, as reported by the Washington Post. The kids tend to grab essentials like eggs, but also snacks and desserts. Alselwi posts these videos on TikTok with the permission of the students’ parents.
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