The new smoked fish shop
Shelsky's is making Carroll Gardens feel a little more Lower East Side-y.
"No more schlepping," says their website. Owner
Peter Shelsky, an Eleven Madison Park alum, is saving the neighborhood a trip over the bridge to Russ and Daughters for their dose of smoked, cured, and pickled fishies.
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Iris Cafe doesn't have an official brunch menu. The sandwiches and salads are available all day, but it's especially hopping inside the Brooklyn Heights nabe cafe during prime weekend brunching hours. Look on the framed chalkboard for the
Smoked Bluefish Salad ($9.50). The glistening little pieces of fish from
Acme Smokehouse in Greenpoint (it's their only local fish) are salty, smoky, and buttery atop a bed of lettuce leaves, hard-boiled egg slices, and roasted asparagus.
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For those of you who laugh out loud at the idea of turning on the oven to make dinner during what I hope will be final heatwave of the summer, look no further than East Meredith, New York's Max Creek...
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"We're starting to wonder if the mysteries of Russian sushi are worth another visit." [Photos: Hawk Krall] At the eastern end of Surf Avenue, where the slightly sad yet beautiful remains of Coney Island morph into the Eastern European neighborhood...
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[Photo: Robyn Lee] As Liz Lemon so sagely observed, "All of humankind has one thing in common—the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich." So lunchers,...
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Photograph by Serious Eats intern alum Linnea Covington It might be hard to tell what those letters are trying to spell, but it's just one -ING short of "I ♥ PICKLED HERRING." The crew behind The Universal Records Database...
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"I wasn't eating white stuff, I was eating real fish and I knew it." Walking on the pier behind Salty's Seafood Market in Point Pleasant, it was easy to imagine that I was in the middle of an episode of...
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Dave Pasternack showing off his web research of the louvar. If Dave Pasternack has to Google a fish, you know it's something special (or non-existent). Earlier this week, the Esca chef-partner got a call about a fresh-caught louvar, and...
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How to Eat the New Catch Holland Herring 101. Photograph by Jen Snow New Catch Holland, or “Hollandse Nieuwe" is like the wishbone of the herring world. Two filets are attached at the tail, and per tradition, you're supposed...
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Photograph from stu_spivack on Flickr Nicknamed the Rolls-Royce of salmon, the Copper River Salmon has been hauled in from Alaska and starting today, will be on the menu at the Grand Central Oyster Bar. The fatty, brilliant red-colored salmon...
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