📍 Gowanus, New York City

Siempre is a Mexican restaurant on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus, a neighborhood spot for Mexican cooking in this stretch of Brooklyn.

A bar in Gowanus, the low-slung, industrial-turned-creative pocket of Brooklyn along the canal. The name is Turkish for workshop or atelier. A neighborhood spot for a drink a littl...

Brooklyn's first handmade pierogi shop, going since 2013, working off Slovak recipes owner Helena inherited from her baba, Julia. The signature Baba's Potato pierogi swaps in Ameri...

A wine house on Union Street near the Gowanus and Carroll Gardens line, walk-ins only and no reservations taken. Open daily into the late hours, it's the kind of small, candlelit w...

From chef Aleksandr Orman, The Common is a relaxed Brooklyn eatery leaning on local ingredients in an unfussy common-kitchen setting. This Park Slope location on Fourth Avenue is a...

The intimate hi-fi cocktail lounge above Public Records' sprawling Gowanus campus, set in the old ASPCA headquarters with state-of-the-art OJAS-built speakers. It's the quieter, si...

A Peruvian bistro on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus. Expect the ceviche-and-lomo backbone of Peruvian cooking—citrus-cured fish, stir-fried beef, and the country's Chinese- and Japanese-inf...

A Gowanus dive built around the back room, where the calendar runs to live metal, punk, and burlesque most nights of the week. The bar pours daily from 2pm to 4am, so it works as b...

A Gowanus bar and grill on Fourth Avenue with a long weekday happy hour (3-7pm) and a kitchen that runs late, until 1am Sunday through Thursday and 2am on weekends. It leans into t...

Cotra is a Japanese izakaya and bar in Gowanus, Brooklyn, pouring drinks alongside small-plate izakaya cooking. It takes reservations and does delivery, and functions as much as a ...