Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

The Bacon Lover’s Bagel
Scot Rossillo, owner of The Bagel Store (with locations at 247 Bedford Ave. and 754 Metropolitan Ave. in Williamsburg) is getting some ink for his embellished egg bagel, which incorporates black pepper, Cheddar cheese, and just-fried bacon into its batter. He tells the NY Daily News, “This bagel does not replace the texture of regular bacon, egg and cheese, but if you add bacon, egg and cheese to a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, it certainly increases the flavor. That’s very popular right now. It will heighten the experience for you to a new level of satisfaction.” Has anybody tried this thing? (Photo by Gabel for News.)

“What Brooklyn restaurant will persuade my wife to move there?”
This question was posed by Chowhound rottenherring and has inspired a long thread of favorite Brooklyn eateries. Suggestions included Al Di La, Motorino, Prime Meats, Vinegar Hill House, Buttermilk Channel, and a couple of less-talked-about spots, like Locanda Vini e Olii in Clinton Hill and Zenkichi in Williamsburg. The couple ended up at Marlow & Sons: “The ambiance was incredible. Exactly right. One of the best dining experiences in New York all time for me.” Where would you take someone you were trying to draw to Brooklyn?

What to Eat at the New Gowanus Pie Shop
According to the New York Times, the brand new Four & Twenty Blackbirds (on 3rd Avenue at 8th Street in Gowanus) is already offering about three dozen different pies by the slice: “The shop sells mostly dessert pies, like a double-crust apple and pear scented with rosewater. Their delicate cheese tart is fragrant from a liberal scattering of thyme and shy enough on the sugar front to be served as a cheese course.” Yum.

After the jump: $15 lobster dinner in Cobble Hill, Coney Island’s new diner, Le Gamin’s Greenpoint expansion, and Red Hook’s new market…

Mei Mei Lobster Night
Chowhound fischermb drops a tip on Court Street’s Cafe Mei Mei: “I saw on a sign outside the restaurant that on Monday nights they have a Lobster Night, 1 1/2 pounder for $15, anyone try this out?”

Brooklyn Openings
Coney Island has a new 24-hour eatery, says Grub Street: “A gleaming new diner, the Parkview, has opened in the home of the former Retro 50, which closed in 2007 and has been conspicuously vacant ever since.” … As we mentioned last month, Le Gamin of Prospect Heights is opening a new location at 108 Franklin St., near Noble St., in Greenpoint. The kitchen should be functioning as of today, says Grub Street… Cesar Fuentes, the guy in charge of the Red Hook food vendors is opening Red Hook Mercado somewhere on Van Brunt, says NYC Food Guy. The market will offer crafts and some favorite foods from the ball fields.