Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

Opening This Week: Le Comtoir
251 Grand St between Driggs Ave and Roebling St, Williamsburg; (718) 486-3300
This Williamsburg bistro with a pleasant backyard (photo by Lizz Kuehl) will opening for brunch this week and will start serving dinner later this month. “Chef Sebastien Chamaret (La Goulue)… turns out locally sourced American fare with a Franco bent: A ‘bacon-cheeseburger’ sausage from local butcher the Meat Hook is paired with lentils and frisée, while French toast is torched on top like crème brûlée,” says Time Out New York.

The Cost of Iced Coffee
While “in between jobs” blogger Bumpershine decided to serve his community by pricing out every cup of iced coffee in Park Slope. Here are the highlights of his findings: “The best iced coffee bang for your buck in The Slope (out of all the places I visited) is at a place known for it’s chilled menu items… For $1.75 at Haagen-Dazs on 7th Ave, you can wash down your double scoop of rum raisin ice cream with a 22oz cup of chilled joe, that’s a mere 7.9 cents per ounce folks… Cafe Grumpy, which lists an individually brewed cup of iced coffee for up to $5.25, depending on the varietal. Based on a 16oz cup, that would work out to a chart topping 33 cents per ounce. (They also sell a less expensive cold brewed cup for a mere $3.25 for 16oz.)”

Out of Work? Free Brunch in Bay Ridge
The home decor store and cafe Hom is offering free brunch to any unemployed customers who call ahead and ask for it. “A free brunch is something small, but it can make a big difference in someone’s day,” owner Salvatore Forte told the New York Daily News. “It’s kind of amazing how good it makes people feel.”

After the jump: Brooklyn’s fish fry truck, Paulie Gee’s, Farm to Folk Fest, Sycamore, and Peter Pan…

Brooklyn’s New Fish Fry Truck
Melina Ryzik for the New York Times spends some time with “Jen ‘n Outlaw’s Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil, a mobile outpost of Southern food and New York chutzpah… On Saturdays [starting August 21] the truck will be parked around Bogart Street in Bushwick (find it at twitter.com/jenandoutlaws); in the fall it will appear in Manhattan, around Chelsea’s galleries, with performances beyond cooking onboard.”

Recently Reviewed: Paulie Gee’s
60 Greenpoint Ave between Franklin and West Sts, Greenpoint; (347) 987-3747
“The best pies here are mixed-media masterworks… His Honey Jones—a frequent special featuring honey from a Brooklyn beekeeper, Gorgonzola, mozzarella, cherries and wispy prosciutto—beautifully balances sweet and salty. The Rooftop Pie includes crunchy Brooklyn-grown kale, gorgeously singed atop mozzarella and sausage,” writes Jay Cheshes for Time Out New York. Plus, Slice reports that Paulie Gee’s is now BYOB.

Quick Bites
This Sunday, August 22, the Greenpoint Williamsburg CSA is hosting their Farm to Folk Fest, a fundraising event for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg CSA’s Low Income Fund to bring farm-fresh food everybody in the neighborhood, at Union Pool. There will be live music and suggested donation is $12 at the door… Sycamore Bar and Flowershop [1118 Cortelyou Rd. near Westminster Road, (347) 240-5850] has invited 20 local homebrewers “to show off their stuff in the first ever Brooklyn Wort competition on Aug. 21,” says the Brooklyn Paper. Taster tickets cost $20. For info, visit www.brooklynwort.com… And Channel Thirteen’s video series, New York on the Clock, profiles Donna Siafakas of Peter Pan Bakery.