Fifth Avenue: Brooklyn's Restaurant Row?
Is Fifth Avenue in Park Slope really the densest stretch of restaurants in Brooklyn? Let us know. Counting Park Slope’s Restaurants [Curbed] Outer Borough Message Board [Chowhound]
Is Fifth Avenue in Park Slope really the densest stretch of restaurants in Brooklyn? Let us know.
Counting Park Slope’s Restaurants [Curbed]
Outer Borough Message Board [Chowhound]
Song is owned by the same people as Joya.
“Long Tan trumps the horribly over-rated Joya”
WOW…different strokes I guess. I can’t even step foot into Long Tan after having tried Joya or Song.
But thats not the point of this thread…just glad to have all of the great options in Bklyn, whether is Pk Slope, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, etc. GO BROOKLYN!!
“What’s Smith Street’s answer to Applewood?”
What’s 5th Avenue’s? Applewood is on 11th Street just above 7th Avenue.
Otherwise I agree — tho I’m biased, living right by 5th.
5th Avenue is nicer looking with the trees.
Smith’s best restaurants are Saul and Kitchen.
And Caserta Vecchia’s pizza.
I think both places are over saturated at this point with restaurants and wish were more variety for daily shopping.
Both need to be a bit cleaner too.
(and I wish people would stop posting flyers all
over the street light poles and ever other surface around – looks as bad as some of the new condo bldgs)
As a former Cobble Hill resident I think Fifth Avenue wins hands down. Sure, there are lots of restaurants on Smith St but how many are any good?
Where in Cobble Hill can you eat Italian of comparable quality to Al di La? (And this in an old Italian neighborhood…)
For all rounders, what in Cobble Hill beats Stone Park and Blue Ribbon?
And where can you eat sushi to rival Blue Ribbon Sushi?
5th has Belleville, Smith has… Bar Tabac?
Long Tan trumps the horribly over-rated Joya.
What’s Smith Street’s answer to Applewood?
Plus, once you’re at 5th you’re in walking distance of Brooklyn Fish Camp, Franny’s, Miracle Grill….
Having just eaten at Stone Park Cafe (on 5th, of course), I give my vote to 5th Ave. That said, we like to take a little jaunt over to Smith Street, where there really is a fantastic selection of places as well. As someone else noted, the cool thing is that we can even have this discussion. When we moved from, yes, the Upper West Side, one of the things that drew us to Park Slope was the restaurant scene. (Our view is that for selection, quality and price, Smith Street and 5th Ave are better than anywhere in Manhattan, where high prices for mediocre quality is considered completely acceptable.) And it would have drawn us to Cobble Hill as well if we could have found a house we could have afforded there!
We are lucky to have these two great restuarant rows in our ‘hood. In terms of quality for your money, I doubt anywhere else in the city (or country!) can beat it.
Yeah Brooklyn!
(gotta give the edge to smith because it was there first though)
I don’t know…I think Smith St. (starting at Altantic Ave., running down to CG) could give 5th Ave. a run for its money! There’s some good eats on that stretch. And it’s a looonnngggg stretch too. But I’m not bangin’ 5th Ave. either–good stuff all around. Brooklyn’s got the other boroughs beat for sure.
agreed — evaluation of quality would be much better than sheer quantity. if you look at it that way, though i certainly haven’t eaten at all places in either area, i’d vote 5th avenue: al di la, cocotte, moutarde, bklyn fish camp, etc etc… aside from olea, is anything else due to open in fg/ch?