Blossoming Brooklyn

Like Berkley in the 1970's, Brooklyn is rapidly becoming the place to be for artisans, young chefs, & food lovers. As if those bearded-glasses wearing-art making-young mommy being-local brew sipping-organic-grass fed-hipsters don't imbue this borough with enough coolness. Their impressive back-to-roots food movement is another reason the believe Brooklyn is just it. Read about the blossoming Brooklyn food movement in the New York Times.

A Few Burgeoning Brooklyn Foodies:

• BEDFORD CHEESE SHOP 229 Bedford Avenue (North Fourth Street), Williamsburg; (718) 599-7588 or bedfordcheeseshop.com.
• BROOKLYN KITCHEN 616 Lorimer Street (Skillman Avenue), Williamsburg; (718) 389-2982 or thebrooklynkitchen.com.
• MARLOW & SONS 81 Broadway (Berry Street), Williamsburg; (718) 384-1441 or marlowandsons.com.
• MARLOW & DAUGHTERS 95 Broadway (Berry Street), Williamsburg; (718) 388-5700 or marlowanddaughters.com.
  
• MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATE 105A North Third Street (Berry Street), Williamsburg; (718) 388-2625 or mastbrotherschocolate.com.
• MCCLURE’S PICKLES mcclurespickles.com.
• SIXPOINT CRAFT ALES 40 Van Dyke Street (Dwight Street), Red Hook; sixpointcraftales.com.

Images, Tony Cenicola for The New York Times

Rick and Michael Mast making of Mast Brothers doing what they do best - making chocolate.