Brownstoner Food & Drink Round-Up

Beer Table: Now Serving the Most Expensive Brunch in Brooklyn
427 B 7th Avenue (between 14th and 15th Streets), Park Slope
“On weekends they’ve just started serving a $23 brunch menu inspired by the mid-morning Bavarian meal of weisswurst (white sausage), a pretzel, and weissbier (white beer). Weisswurst is fresh sausage made from veal, pork, cardamom, and other spices, then boiled and served in its cooking water… They’re served with two extra-crispy Belgian style waffles piled high with greenmarket fruits, a spoonful of some of the best butter I’ve ever tasted–it’s from Evans Farmhouse Creamery in Norwich, NY–and a 500 ml glass of Schneider Weisse.” [BA Foodist]

Newish in East Flatbush: Jerk-a-Rama
704 Rogers Avenue (near Lenox Road); (718) 284-4100
“Jerk chicken at the newish Jerk-a-Rama is deeply smoky and cooked ‘damn near perfectly,’ wleatherette reports. Spicing could be stronger and the hot sauce is too sweet, she adds, but this place is a keeper, ‘a solid B/B+.'” [CHOW’s Outer Borough Digest]

Two Newbies on Atlantic
Slice reports that a new brick oven pizza place, La Pizzetta, has opened at 145 Atlantic between Clinton and Henry (in the old Bouillabaisse/Soju/Dragon Lounge/Buck’s spot). Chowhound EJC says that a barbecue place called Dallas Jones “is moving into the Old Red Pepper takeout Chinese space next to Magnetic Field (RIP)… One more new restaurant to note — on Henry St, just south of Atlantic, the old TV Repair shop has a building permit in the window for a restaurant and bar. Any ideas what that is?”

After the jump: The New Yorker visits James, another one bites the dust in Park Slope, Time Out offers dates with chefs, bakers, and barkeeps, and Hope & Anchor gets a TV spot…

James Gets Another Rave Review
605 Carlton Avenue (at St. Marks Avenue), Prospect Heights; (718) 942-4255
“An excellent fillet of brook trout is first sautéed, then covered with hazelnuts and chives, folded in half, tied with a string of budding chive, and balanced with a side of fennel and oranges—evidence of James’s vast but not vulgar aspirations. A tender loin of lamb, encrusted with pine nuts and rosemary, and served with a buttery three-bean stew, struck just the right notes of heavy and light. The desserts, though, especially the warm ricotta beignets, win out.” [The New Yorker]

Quick Bites
“The four month-old Lookout Hill, the latest bbq spot to take over the corner of 5th Avenue and President Street in Park Slope (it was just recently Biscuit BBQ), has closed… Our Park Slope operatives tell us the space has held a least four different restaurants (including the jazzy Night and Day and the fusion spot Bibi’s) in the last seven years, automatically qualifying the space for the Doomed Restaurants List,” says Eater… Chefs, bakers, barkeeps, and other food industry pros are running personal ads in Time Out, including a couple of Brooklynites. Now would be a good time to own up to your crush on Blue Marble Ice Cream coproprietress Jennie Dundas or Matthew Roff, co-owner of Southpaw, Public Assembly, and Franklin Park… And Gothamist tells us to look for Hope & Anchor in an upcoming episode of Fringe.