Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

A Closer Look at Two Toms
We’re big fans of Eater’s Who Goes There column by Lost City’s Brooks of Sheffield, so we were really excited to see that the most recent entry pays a visit to Two Toms, “a Red-Sauce Gem Off the Gowanus Canal.” Brooks of Sheffield writes: “I’m talking about the kind of place where the waiter tells you what’s available, and there’s no menu; where the food seems based on some distant relative’s yellowing recipe cards, and is cooked by someone’s mother; where the decor—if you could call it that—is equal parts social club, American Legion hall and grandpa’s rec room.” Check out more great photos and the whole story here.

Recently Reviewed: Roman’s and Lot 2
This week, New York magazine’s Underground Gourmet hits up two Brooklyn neighborhood spots. On Roman’s in Fort Greene: “We were partial to the fish—a tender hunk of halibut one night, a striped-bass fillet another—in a buttery wine sauce with cardoons and briny green olives.” They then head to Greenwood Heights to discover that “the defining feature of Lot 2 (other than the truly stellar duck-fat potatoes that accompany the burger) is the $25 four-course Sunday supper, already a neighborhood tradition. The weekly menu is posted online and scrawled on a horizontal chalkboard that runs along the wall, and the meal is served family style.”

Brooklyn’s Best Food & Drink
Time Out New York maps out the Best food + drink 2010 in NYC. Some Brooklyn picks we can totally get behind: the escargot at Kaz an Nou in Prospect Heights, the salted-caramel apple pie at Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Gowanus, and the Behind God’s Back cocktail (a rum drink made with “cinnamon bark, cane syrup, pineapple juice and a pair of bitters”) at Dram in Williamsburg.

After the jump: Restaurant employees attack blogger, the New Brooklyn Cookbook, a $5,700 wine experience, and more…

Mama Rosa Plays Rough with Park Slope Blogger
According to Eater, when FIPS posted about a bad experience at Mama Rosa, a couple of restaurant employees freaked out in the comments, expressing their hope that the blogger gets “mugged or trapped in a burning building or run over by the F train.” Yowch.

Recently Reviewed: The New Brooklyn Cookbook
“The recipes range from straightforward and simple, like Al di Là‘s spaghetti with clams, Dumont’s blueberry crumble, and Prime Meats’ celery salad, to some cheffy, complex and tempting ones, like Buttermilk Channel’s duck meatloaf with creamed spinach and fried onion ring, or Convivium Osteria’s Frustingolo fig and chocolate cake,” writes Florence Fabricant for the New York Times.

Quick Bites
The New York Times introduces the newly opened Brooklyn Winery, where “Individuals and groups can buy barrels for custom-blended wines for $5,700.”… The Chow Outerboroughs Digest shares some background info on Court Street’s Karloff… Eater talks to the owners of Baked about their new cookbook, Baked Exporations… and Chowhound Bob Martinez directs you to his favorite cemitas at Tacos Matamoros.