A Ridgewood Gem You Won’t Find On An App

A mysterious flurry of new restaurants have been popping up in Ridgewood lately, but one of the Bushwick-adjacent neighborhood’s best has remained a locally kept secret. That would be Fernando Strohmeyer’s I Like Food, a pop-up that’s been working out of the kitchen in the back of Aunt Ginny’s for about as long as the bar’s been around. Amid the pandemic, the back of house became the front: Strohmeyer’s kitchen kept the bar from having to resort to makeshift menus and, while the bar once boasted a few cramped outdoor chairs, both I Like Food and Aunt Ginny’s have resolutely kept their menus take-out only since reopening, something that has set the restaurant curiously apart from the archipelagos of outré seating arrangements that have populated streets elsewhere over the past year.