French brasserie in the Wythe Hotel · $$$
An all-day French brasserie on the ground floor of the Wythe Hotel, open since December 2019 and doing the canon properly: onion soup with Gruyère at $23, escargots, steak tartare, roast chicken with frites at $44 and steak frites at $52. It opens at 7am every day, serves lunch on weekdays and brunch at weekends, and runs dinner to 10pm from Sunday to Wednesday and 11pm from Thursday to Saturday. Tables open 28 days ahead; on weeknights from 5pm to 7pm the bar seats have an apéro hour of selected cocktails and wines.
Reserve aheadWythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Contemporary Thai · $$$
Two blocks north, husband-and-wife chefs Ohm Suansilphong and Kiki Supap cook century-old Thai recipes through a modern lens, and the MICHELIN Guide includes it. Order the crispy rice salad with sour cured pork at $17, the green curry Wagyu hamburg steak at $28, the lamb massaman curry pot pie at $38 or, when there is one, the whole fish roasted in a banana leaf with red curry at $39. Dinner only, from 5:30pm to 9pm, and to 10pm on Friday and Saturday; closed on Wednesday.
Reserve ahead190 North 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
French tasting menu with a Japanese hand · $$$$
The splurge, six minutes away, with one MICHELIN star. Chef Yuu Shimano trained in classic French cooking and brings his Japanese heritage to a single long menu built on top-grade shellfish and meat; the duck and foie gras pastry is the signature. Service opens as theatre, with the lights dimmed and a curtain drawn back on the kitchen brigade. The tasting menu is $300 a head, with a $300 wine and sake pairing or shorter pairings from $123, at two seatings, 6pm and 8:30pm, Tuesday to Saturday. The fixed menu cannot cover every dietary restriction, so email before you book.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out55 Nassau Avenue, #1A, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Northern European bakery and café · $
A small bakery and café on Wythe Avenue that has baked European-style bread in small batches since 2009, with Northern European roots, pastries made on the premises and good coffee, in a room kept calm on purpose. It opens at 7am on weekdays and 8am at weekends and closes at 6pm, which makes it the walk for a coffee and a pastry before the day starts, or a loaf and something sweet to take back to the balcony.
Walk in150 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn
Bar and grill, since 1887 · $$
There has been a bar on this corner of Berry and North 8th Street since 1887, and much of it is original: the bar itself, the tin ceiling, most of the tiled floor and the stained-glass window still advertising Peter Doelger Extra Beer, from its years as a brewery tasting room. Brooklyn Brewery delivered its first case of Brooklyn Lager to this door in 1988. The kitchen does a $16 burger, a giant pretzel with Brooklyn Lager beer cheese at $13 and chicken wings at $12 for six. Open from 4pm Tuesday to Thursday, from 2pm on Friday and noon at weekends; closed on Monday.
Walk in96 Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Slice shop, since 1960 · $
The New York slice, on the corner of North 9th Street and Bedford Avenue since 1960. Vinnie's has changed hands several times, most recently in 2024 to a long-time employee and a chef who helped open Don Angie, and kept the counter: cheese slices, a square Grandma pie with chunky tomato sauce, white and vodka pies, and a long vegan and gluten-free list that settles a mixed group. Small and large pies run from $23 to $39. It stays open until 2am on Friday and Saturday, which makes it the stop on the walk home from Bedford Avenue.
Walk in148 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Polish pierogi house · $$
Greenpoint's Polish heritage on a plate, with a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand. Since 2019 Pierozek has made its pierogi by hand, six to a portion: potato and farmer cheese with caramelised onions at $14, jalapeño and bacon at $15, sauerkraut and mushroom at $14, and red borscht with uszka at $13. The plates are Bolesławiec pottery, and a short list of Polish spirits goes with them. Open noon to 10pm, and to 8pm on Sunday; it takes bookings only for ten or more.
Walk in592 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Donut counter, since the 1950s · $
A family-run Greenpoint donut counter that has served the neighbourhood since the 1950s and still opens at 4:30am on weekdays, 5am on Saturday and 5:30am on Sunday, closing at 6pm or 7pm. Most of the recipes are the originals: honey dip, sour cream glazed, red velvet, blueberry buttermilk, Boston cream and French crullers. It is also the place for two things New York keeps to itself, an egg cream and a black-and-white cookie, and it makes bagel sandwiches to order for the morning you want something savoury.
Walk in727 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Breakfast is not included in the standard room rate. In the building, Little Fino serves La Colombe coffee, pastries and a sit-down breakfast from 7am to 11am every day: a croissant is $5, a cappuccino $5.50, avocado toast $21 and the Italian 'Bento' breakfast of eggs, potatoes, meat and toast $26. Room service serves breakfast over the same hours, and the Lavazza coffee in every room is covered by the destination fee, along with bottled water at check-in. The fee's $10 credit is for Leuca only, so it does not apply at breakfast. The best outside option is Le Crocodile, three minutes away, from 7am every day until 11am on weekdays and 10am at weekends, with a croissant at $5, pancakes with blueberries at $23 and a full petit déjeuner with juice and coffee at $42. Bakeri, seven minutes away, opens at 7am on weekdays for coffee and a pastry.
Brooklyn Brewery's old tasting room on North 11th Street, three minutes from the hotel. It served its last beer on 29 August 2026, and the brewery is moving four blocks to a much larger home at 1 Wythe Avenue, with a rooftop bar and a kitchen, which has not yet opened. Check the brewery's own site before you walk over; until then, Teddy's, where the first case of Brooklyn Lager was delivered, is seven minutes away.
