Vines & Voices 034: Trudie’s Tavern Begins Instagram Rollout
Plus, Guy Fieri loves Defontes, Portland gets its own Brooklyn Bridge and more.
Welcome to Vines & Voices, your weekly look at life across West Brooklyn. Curated by CSJ, this free newsletter brings together the local news and goings-on shaping our neighborhoods, plus a few extras worth knowing. Have a tip, a story idea or something you think deserves attention? Write to us. Your voice helps shape the story.
Snow, Snow… And More Snow
This BKMag headline summed up how many of us felt about the blizzard earlier this week. I channel this New Yorker cartoon when I say — hang in there, friends. Spring is coming!
The Weekly Edit
Ward 6 Brooklyn tried Marco Polo for the first time; shared an update on the reopening of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Carroll Gardens branch; covered the neighborhood’s struggle with the new one-hour metered parking and more. Read the full dispatch here.
Trudie’s Tavern, the forthcoming restaurant from the team behind Gertie, is opening soon in the space where Buttermilk Channel used to be. The restaurant posted to Instagram this week to share a high-level menu preview — supper, cocktails, raw bar and rotisserie.
High Beam is hiring a sales and relationships manager to assist with expanding its wholesale partnerships.
Monday’s blizzard caused a tree branch to fall on parked cars in Carroll Gardens.
Easy Aerial, a drone maker based at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, says political pressure tied to Mayor Zohran Mamdani helped prompt the Navy Yard’s decision not to renew its lease after seven years. The Yard denies the claim, citing compliance issues instead.
350 Hicks Street, an empty Cobble Hill lot that was once a parking garage for the since-closed Long Island College Hospital, has been acquired by developers for $29.5 million.
Red Hook Tavern has been rated one of the toughest places to get a reservation in New York City. Infatuation recommends lining up around 4:30pm to snag a seat.
The most expensive residential sale in Brooklyn — a $15 million renovated townhouse — closed in Brooklyn Heights this week.
An affordable housing lottery for a nine-story development at 335 Bond Street opened this week.
The Malin, a coworking space opening this spring in Brooklyn Heights, is now accepting memberships, which range from $350 to $950, per month.
My invitation to the vinyl listening party Diptyque threw at Public Records last week obviously got lost in the snow.
Guy Fieri: big Defontes fan.
June Wine Bar will begin serving brunch on the weekends starting March 7.
Portland, Oregon now has its very own Brooklyn Bridge.
Goings On
Camptopia, Brooklyn Bridge Parents’ annual camp fair, takes place tomorrow, Feb. 28 at the Brooklyn Basketball Training Center.
Planted Cafe will start screening films set in NYC on Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm.
One Girl Cookies is hosting a Sicilian dinner on Sunday, March 1 from 6pm to 9pm.
Books Are Magic is revamping its subscription offering with Helen’s Wines to be quarterly. Each box includes a wine pairing and a backlist fiction paperback selected by Emma Straub. Sign up by March 4 to get the next drop.
Saturn Road will showcase art from LGBTQ+ artists citywide starting March 30. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 6.
A pretzel stacking competition’s 199th iteration will take place at Littlefield in Gowanus on Thursday, March 12.
Brooklyn Granary Mill unveiled a new series of classes, beginning with one on Baking & Cooking with Ancient Grains on Saturday, March 28.
One Last Thing
Have you heard of the Red Hook cocktail? It’s a little bit of Manhattan and a little bit of Brooklyn, with “a bittersweet bite.”