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Brooklyn: The Great GoogaMooga Music Acts And Restaurants Announced

Fill a park with killer food and tunes — we'll go!

Mar 26, 2013 12:51 pm

It's ba-ack! The humongous food and music festival with the funny name returns to Brooklyn's Prospect Park May 17-19. This year's Great GoogaMooga will feature 85 restaurants serving some of the best cuisine in New York, 75 beers flowing, 100 wines pouring and 20 bands playing (but you never know who's going to show up). Best of all, this year it's 3 glorious days long! Here's what we're excited about.

Video Time

Funny Video: Watch Comedian's "Guy Fieri Opening Brooklyn Restaurant" Prank

Flavortown comes to Williamsburg, hipsters freak

Mar 25, 2013 2:19 pm

Is Guy Fieri really about to open a restaurant in the heart of Brooklyn's Williamsburg? Residents react in this damn funny video.

Food Fetes

Cool Festival Alert: Introducing The Brooklyn Brewery Mash

Bringing Brooklyn attitude, and beer, to 11 cities

Feb 7, 2013 5:01 pm

This morning Brooklyn Brewery announced an 11-city festival called the Brooklyn Brewery Mash. Each stop will include a lineup of parties, concerts, private dinners and readings, all “featuring humanity’s favorite beverage, beer,” according to a news release. Not going to fight that.

BBQ Nation

A Barbecue Pit Grows In Brooklyn

Meet the men behind Fletcher’s in Gowanus

Feb 6, 2013 3:02 pm

After building a successful New York City advertising agency, Bill Fletcher sold his share to a partner to focus on establishing a "better work-life balance." Apparently, work-life balance also includes mastering the art of slow-cooking various cuts of meat in the smoke of blistering maple and red oak logs. We spoke with Fletcher and his pitmaster Matt Fisher.

Good Food, Rocks

Ambassadors Stop For Tony Luke's Cheesesteak, Vinegar Hill House

Hint for touring: eat lemons. They'll tell you why.

Jan 31, 2013 11:31 am

In Good Food, Rocks, we track down bands serious about their grub — usually because they've had jobs in the foodservice industry. Up next, The Ambassadors, right out of Williamsburg. Shocking tales of the room service industry, how to combat taco exhaustion and scurvy at the same time and the best thing on the menu at Brooklyn's Vinegar Hill House, after the jump.

Road Trip

Portrait Gallery: Touring Brooklyn With The Food Experiments

A party bus, Brooklyn Brewery beer and cheftestants

Dec 19, 2012 5:31 pm

Nick Suarez and Theo Peck have been busy this year. Their perennially popular cheftestant cook-off series, the Food Experiments, has been on the road across America (and in Sweden) for the last year, and just to make things extra nice they brought all the Grand Prize audience choice winners to Brooklyn this weekend to participate in the Food Experiments National Championship, an amateur cookoff sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and Jet Blue. Awesome, right? Here are portraits of the contestants on a Brooklyn party bus.

Field Reports

Our Top 5 Dishes from the Food Experiments National Championship

Beer dumplings, beer shrimp and more in Brooklyn

Dec 17, 2012 5:31 pm

When all was said and done, two winners emerged at last night's Food Experiments National Championship at the Brooklyn Brewery: Audience favorite Jawns 3-D for their pulled pork parmesan bowl, and judge’s favorite, Brooklyn’s own Chef Charles, for his jewel-encrusted shrimp. Here are all the details from last night's action, plus our five favorite dishes from last night.

DJ Week

Mick Boogie Has A Mean Chipotle Addiction

The eclectic DJ loves hip-hop, boring chicken meals

Dec 5, 2012 2:02 pm

Meet Mick Boogie. One of America's best party DJs, a guy who can mix old-school hip-hop better than almost anyone. And a man who once booked a layover in Denver just so he could visit the first-ever Chipotle. Read all about it, along with how he gets the dancefloor going, and who he'd invite to his ultimate dinner party.

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