Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

Opening This Week
Time Out New York says that The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West at 16th Street) is getting ready to serve “Classic cocktails from the 20-seat horseshoe bar… though craft beers and cask ales are the real focus, with a rotating selection dispensed from 14 taps.” Plus, their fancy pub grub will include “a duck-confit sandwich with fig jam and arugula.” TONY also reports that the owners of Bar Tano are set to open Provini (1302 Eighth Ave at 13th Street): “Italian pastries and Intelligentsia coffee are available in the a.m. Later on, the full menu offers dishes like tagliatelle with lamb ragù, along with Italian craft beers by the bottle.”

Coming Soon
Metromix dishes the details on 9 new Brooklyn restaurants slated to open in the coming months and a handful of upcoming Brooklyn bars. Highlights include Lucali Park Slope (691 Sixth Ave. at 20th St.) and Mission Dolores (249B Fourth Ave., next to Cattyshack) which will be opened by the Bar Great Harry folks and “will serve 24 craft beers and one cask ale on tap—18 American, plus six Belgian and German—as well as a handful of DUB meat pies.”

Secret Tamales in Carroll Gardens
476 Smith Street at W. Ninth Street; (718)422-0001
“New York’s latest stealth tamales have surfaced at F Line Bagels, a little-mentioned deli at the less fashionable end of Smith Street in Brooklyn. Off the menu and announced only on a handwritten sign, they’re fat, moist, and delicious,” reports CHOW’s Outer Boroughs Digest. Apparently, this shop serves a good bagel, too. We’ll have to check out their “Middle Easternstyle special with hard-boiled egg, olive oil, and za’atar.”

After the jump: Lobstah Feast Fridays in Red Hook, where to score seasonal pies, good buys at Fresh Fanatic, and a beer that tastes like a Manhattan…

Lobstah Feast Fridays at Rocky Sullivan’s
34 Van Dyke Street at Dwight Street, Red Hook
If you’ve been enjoying the fresh-from-Maine lobster rolls at the Flea, you’ll appreciate the EaterWire report that the Red Hook Lobster Pound “is popping up every Friday beginning August 28 through the end of the year at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook. Lobsters will be served between 6 and 9 pm, and $23 gets you a 1 ½ lb lobster, farm fresh corn, coleslaw or potato salad and lots of buttery smiles. Jonah Crab claws will also be available.”

Quick Bites
Tasting Table recommends The Blue Stove in Williamsburg, where ” [owner Rachel] McBride bakes a rotating selection of seasonal pies; her offerings change so often that she doesn’t print a set menu. This summer, she’s baked classics like strawberry-rhubarb and newer concoctions such as blackberry mousse. In the fall, look for plum-ginger and Concord grape.” …The New York Times talks about the best buys at Fresh Fanatic near the Navy Yard: “prosciutto di Parma for $15.95 a pound and a dozen large organic eggs for $2.50.” …Off the Presses reports on the new potions brewmaster Garrett Oliver is working on at the Brooklyn Brewery: “The next Brewmaster’s Reserve, called The Manhattan Project and due out on Sept. 15, is being made to taste like a Manhattan Cocktail.”