Walking/Eating Williamsburg - Saturday in Feb - need ideas!

[LemonLauren]

Hi there,
I'm visiting from Toronto next weekend and having visited NYC many times I'm hoping to get some quality time in Brooklyn this visit as I understand it's where good food happens.
I'm looking for lunch/small plate/coffee/bakery/bar type places that are within walking distances from themselves, in whatever is the neatest part of Brooklyn to explore on a Saturday. (Williamsburg?) Last winter I spent 5 hours walking and eating and exploring and drinking coffee in Chicago's Wicker Park area - so, something like that.
Throw your ideas my way! I'm open to all kinds of food but partial to veggies and fish.
Thanks!

[Daniel76]

You can get some good beer at the horribly named Breukelen Bier Merchants

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Breukelen Bier Merchants
182 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

[Silverjay]

For bakeries, you could grab a paczki from the Polish bakery on N.8th. Paczki are traditional creme filled pastry donuts. They have several types. Napoli, the Italian bakery on Metropolitan, has good lard bread as well as these amazing cheese, green olive, salami stuffed rolls. They are incredible on a Saturday morning hot out of the oven. For seafood, the only two specialty places I can think of are Walter Foods, which is standard American grilled fish, mussels, raw bar, other non-seafood mid-century stuff and 1or8, a sushi place. Diner, Rye, other places will have a seafood entree or two on the menu. I like the smoked sturgeon appetizer at Rye.

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Napoli Bakery
616 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Diner
85 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Northside Bakery
149 N 8th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Walter Foods
253 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Rye
247 S 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

1 or 8
66 S 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

[LemonLauren]

yum! thanks!

[chompchomp]

Williamsburg is good for this. I would hit Marlow and Sons, Maison Premiere for oysters, Samurai Mama for pork Betty and mackerel, Best Pizza for a slice and Saltie for sweets.

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Marlow & Sons
81 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Saltie
378 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Best Pizza
33 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Samurai Mama
205 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Maison Premiere
298 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

[LemonLauren]

thanks!

[chompchomp]

Also, I'm not a coffee drinker myself but there are several temples of caffeine that 'burgers worship at; namely Oslo, Blue Bottle, Gimme, Toby's and Van Leeuwen for Intelligentsia.

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Oslo
133 Roebling St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Gimme! Coffee
495 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Blue Bottle Coffee
160 Berry St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Toby's Estate Coffee
125 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211