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560 Manhattan Ave. (Brooklyn), 718/349.3859
"More hipsters than you can shake an ironic
mustache at" inhabit this, the crown jewel of hipster brunching
and all that is skinny-jeaned. Luckily we have local status due to
good friends who live across the street; otherwise they'd throw me,
Monsieur Hipster, out on my extremely unhip leather Cole Haan wallet.
We decided to brunch in the homey confines of the restaurant's worn
interior so as to not catch the stares from the bedraggled kids worn
out from a week of carrying around their guitars and spending dad's
paycheck on Dolphin short-shorts at the local Salvation Army. Luckily
11:30 is a little early for the average hipster, so we had the place
mostly to ourselves. Technically in Green Point, perhaps the cool
quotient isn't quite what it would be if a hipster tornado picked
the place up and placed it 200 yards down the road in neighboring
Williamsburg, but its proximity to the McCarren Pool and the surrounding
park actually makes it a prime destination for every manner of young
Brooklyn family with their requisite Bugaboo in tow (before they move
on to Montclair). It literally looked like an $800 stroller pile up
as the late morning wore on. The space is comfortable and relatively
unadorned, with largish booths and some more typical worn wood tables
and chairs, along with what was an unplugged pinball machine. My food
was pretty run of the mill, but Hipster Jr. had the chocolate chip
pancakes, which were pretty damn awesome. Luckily the kid eats like
a very small bird, so the rest of the table got to vulture off his
plate. It was an overall fun neighborhood experience, and one that
I'm sure we'll repeat in the coming years as we now bring Hipster
Jr. and Hipster Jr. Jr. in the VW to Brooklyn to visit our friends
and show the kids a neighborhood their great grandfather, a Williamsburg
native, wouldn't recognize in a million years. [MF]
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Additional
bars/restaurants nearby:
Brooklyn
Other restaurants with similar cuisine:
Brunch
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Symbols - AM=Abbreviated Menu | B=Bar
| BF=Serves Bar Food | BWL=Bowling | C=Cabaret | D=Dancing
| ED=Exotic Dancers | K=Karaoke | LM=Live Music | R=Restaurant
| TO=Take Out Only | VR=Velvet Rope | WS=Watch Sports Here
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