It’s the summer music festival season–and Bushwick is getting some love as well

Just in time for beach reading season, we’ve discovered a gem of a used bookstore tucked away in Ridgewood: Topos Bookstore Café

By any chance are you a sports fan, as well as a Korean food aficionado? Because Birchwood Forest aims to please people just like you! The recently opened restaurant, located at 1038 Flushing Avenue on East Williamsburg and Bushwick border, is attempting to cater to the neighborhood by serving a mixture of Korean food and classic American staples

As soon as you walk through the doors of Bushwick Public House, you’ll realize you haven’t entered just another Brooklyn coffee shop

When you visit Amaranto, forget everything you thought you knew about Mexican food.

There is a newcomer in the bar scene of the Bushwick-Ridgewood area

What better way is there to celebrate (or commiserate) Valentine’s Day than a party? How about a party

Two Frenchmen Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and Greg Babeau definitely belong among the more interesting of the Bushwick bar owners

A new addition to Bushwick’s culinary scene promises residents a charming way to get that confectionary fix

I zigzag my way through the roaming Boar’s Head trucks and Morgantown residents wearing sunglasses and mismatched pajamas (it somehow works as a stylish outdoor outfit) who are smoking and loitering on the benches in front of Brooklyn Natural and Cafe Swallow

One of the neighborhood’s most popular coffee shops, Little Skips located at 941 Willoughby Ave has a little brother, Little MO to be precise

Sunrise/Sunset popped up cool as a cucumber on a quiet corner on Evergreen Ave a couple of months ago, and since then, they’ve been serving up serenity and cheer, along with booze and caffeine

UPDATE: Update! Rubulad will NOT be held at Ridgewood’s Gottscheer Hall

Guys, cancel all your commitments, change the location of your dates, tell your mom you can’t see her next weekend (sorry!) because this coming week (October 2-5) officially belongs to Bushwick Film Festival (BFF)! Huge celebration of domestic as well as international indie cinema is happening in your neighborhood, and you as a proper Bushbaby should not miss this!

“There was nothing in this area so I decided to change it,” told us French American Bushwick resident Henry Glucroft while leaning against his new shiny bar at Sunrise/Sunset

Oysters — the adorable little slime balls of the sea

Recently, Gothamist’s Rebecca Fishbein wrote a guide summing up the new and old food places in “Jefftown” using terms such as “barstaurantification” and “hip spillover from Williamsburg,” leading a couple thousand people to simultaneously go eat good food off the Jefferson L stop and feel some seriously contradictory emotions of hate towards “Jefftown

Photos by Yaz Rosete for Bushwick Daily Like it or not, spring is upon us. The equinox has come and gone, and now, lurking in wait behind the next pleasant Friday afternoon is a new horror: dining al fresca.  Step cautiously through the sliding cage-like door at 411 Troutman St because Lot 45 is about […]

All photos by Maria Gotay for Bushwick Daily The neighborhood is changing. Often for better, sometimes for worse. For every narrow coffee shop with divine breakfast sandwiches, for every Scotch egg, for every craft beer that makes the Bushwick rounds: another neighborhood stalwart closes its eyes for the last time. Goodbye Blue Monday has been […]

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, which means there’s good chance you’ll need alcohol

Palates Cafe opened in Bushwick back in November to the delight of many living off Knickerbocker M train

Are you finally thawing out after the Polar Vortex did its worst and finding yourself in need of a reason to wear something other than multiple pairs of longjohns and a balaclava? We’re looking at a great weekend in Bushwick (more on that in tomorrow’s weekend guide), and we’re eager to start it off right

2013 was an exciting year! Firstly, we survived the alleged Mayan Apocalypse with the inevitable end of the world attached to it in late December 2012

While stories from the comedic to scandalous are whizzing around the art world a week after the Miami Art Basel Spring Break of the art world (and artists and gallerists alike continue to nurse epic hangovers), one would think that this would send the New York art world into a full-on art coma

The name of the coffee shop has nothing to do with the exercise Pilates; it refers to the taste palate as well as the physical wooden pallets that comprise much of the new coffee shop’s interior

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Last Friday, Grace Exhibition Space was overtaken with the infamous, dynamic and always entertaining Non Grata performance group

Halloween is nigh upon us, and thirsty creatures in search of succor would do well to creep or crawl to Heavy Woods, where six new fall cocktails are being unveiled just in time for Bushwick’s scariest holiday

We’re super proud to announce that this year your favorite blog, ehm us, won’t be missing at CMJ! We have teamed up with the ever incredible The Sky Report Blog and powerhouse Supercrush Studio to bring you an unofficial CMJ showcase of indie and electronic music that’ll be hard to forget

Mominette, the French bistro on Knickerbocker Ave, has wisely decided to capitalize on the weird, vibrant energy that pervades that section of the block by introducing a Tuesday night Jazz Jam

It’s hard to believe that Bunker, the first Vietnamese restaurant in Ridgewood opened its doors just three months ago

Everybody has their own way of celebrating Bushwick Open Studios and giving back to the community

I don’t know about you, but now that it’s getting warm out I’ve been craving some catfish