Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

Brooklyn’s Three Million Dollar Dive
38-44 Washington Ave. (Alternate address: 200 Flushing Ave.)
“One of the city’s truly gritty watering holes, the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, may not have long for this world. Per a Douglas Elliman listing, the bar’s building (along with three others) is for sale for $3 million… If you plan to pay your first and last respects to J.J.’s, as it’s sometimes called, know that even professional degenerates who’ve ignored the ‘MEMBERS ONLY’ sign on the establishment’s front door have ended up fleeing (if only at having to pay the impromptu lap dancers).” [Grub Street]

Harding and Mamary Heading to Soho?
“According to a posting on a French Culinary Institute’s job board, Alan Harding and Jim Mamary are planning a new Patois in Soho and a restaurant and charcuterie shop in Brooklyn. It had been reported after the shutter that Patois would be moving across the street to 254 Smith St., so chances are that is the future home to the meat shop.” [Eater]

Buttermilk Brunch
524 Court Street (at Huntington Street), Carroll Gardens
“Excellent Court Street newcomer, Buttermilk Channel has just launched brunch. It’s been proven that chef Ryan Angulo does wondrous things with pecans, so we’re looking forward to the pecan-pie French toast (says admittedly biased owner Doug Crowell, it’s ‘pretty insane’).” [Time Out New York]

After the jump: News from Vinegar Hill House, Draft Barn, Lunetta, NoNo Kitchen, Marlow & Daughters, Bar Great Harry, and South Brooklyn Pizza…

Vinegar Hill House Gets Liquor License
72 Hudson Avenue, Vinegar Hill
According to the restaurant’s website, “We now have our liquor license – full wine service will begin February 4th. We are no longer BYO.” And Time Out’s The Feed has posted a (rather blurry) shot of the drink menu. Looks like their seasonal cocktails will cost $8 and include spiced cider, Irish coffee, hot buttered rum, brandy Alexanders, and hot toddies.

Recently Reviewed: Draft Barn
530 Third Avenue (between 12th and 13th Streets), Gowanus; (718) 768-0515
“A drink menu this large will make anyone’s head spin, and the owners—who also operate a Draft Barn on Avenue X—could afford to be more forthcoming with the tutorials. We had to interrogate the staff before we got more than one-word responses. The recommendations we did get were golden. Pauwel’s Kwak ($9), a rich Belgian amber with a complex fruit-and-berries bouquet, was fantastic, as was the strong, almost winelike Kasteel Triple ($9), another Belgian. A cheaper Lion Stout ($5) from Sri Lanka (!), meanwhile, was a glass of silky chocolate.” [Time Out New York]

Quick Bites
“Adam Shepard’s second iteration of his Smith Street hit Lunetta, located on 21st and Broadway, closed on Saturday night,” Eater reports. In response to this news, Chowhound bhill writes, “Hopefully that will bode well for the smith st. location.” … Gowanus Lounge reports that Park Slope’s NoNo Kitchen is for rent… Grub Street notes that Marlow & Daughters is peddling $9 pint of Stumptown espresso ice cream: “Truth is, our batch didn’t taste all that different from, say, Häagen-Dazs’ coffee ice cream, perhaps because it was a touch freezer-burned. But if you’re a slave to the increasingly ubiquitous cult brand, you’ll want to know.” … A Brooklyn Life says that Smith Street’s Bar Great Harry “is expanding into a back room and rumor is it will also host a pool table.” … And, finally, Metromix spreads the word that South Brooklyn Pizza is now hosting a gay-friendly Monday night “mingling party” which is said to involve “ample amounts of fondling” and “go-go boys who’ll show up a bit later each night.”