Eat in Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Gage & Tollner

• ★ 4.3
• Steakhouse
• $$$

Gage & Tollner is an oyster and chop house on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, reopened in 2021, with seafood towers, steaks and fried chicken.

Maison Sun

• ★ 4.4
• Vietnamese
• $$$$

Maison Sun is an eight-seat tasting-menu counter in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, cooking Vietnamese flavors with French technique for $185 a guest.

Squarrel Cafe

• ★ 3.6
• Cafe
• $

Order Matcha latte

Squarrel Cafe is a board game cafe at 572 Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, with a wall of games, matcha lattes, bubble tea and weekly D&D nights.

Junior's Restaurant

• ★ 3.7
• Bakery
• $

Order Original cheesecake

Junior's Restaurant on Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn has served cheesecake since 1950, on a thin sponge-cake layer rather than a crust.

Bien Cuit

• ★ 4.4
• Bakery
• $

Order Miche

Bien Cuit on Smith Street, Brooklyn, bakes dark-crusted loaves such as its miche and baguette, plus pastries, and opened in Boerum Hill in 2011.

White Noise Coffee

• ★ 3.9
• Coffee roaster
• $

White Noise Coffee runs a coffee shop and roastery at 57 Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn, roasting small batches and serving breakfast, brunch and bakes.

Grand Army

• ★ 4.4
• Cocktail bar
• $$

Drink Themed cocktail menus that change by concept

Grand Army is a Boerum Hill, Brooklyn cocktail and oyster bar on State Street whose menus follow themes, with a raw bar and $65 and $110 seafood towers.

Sunken Harbor Club

• ★ 4.4
• Cocktail bar
• $$$

Drink Tiki classics

Sunken Harbor Club is a walk-in-only tiki bar above Gage & Tollner in Downtown Brooklyn, a 35-person room with a fog machine and drinks near $20.

A Taste of Katz's

• ★ 4.0
• Jewish deli
• $

Try Pastrami sandwich

A Taste of Katz's is a deli counter inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, selling hand-carved pastrami and corned beef, matzo ball soup and latkes.

Pierogi Boys

• ★ 4.0
• Eastern European
• $

Try Kielbasa and pierogi platter

Pierogi Boys is a Polish counter inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn serving potato and cheese pierogi, beef cheek and pork pierogi, and grilled kielbasa.

Hainan Jones

• ★ 4.3
• Chinese
• $

Try Poached chicken set

Hainan Jones is a Hainanese chicken rice stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, serving poached and roasted chicken sets with rice and soup.

Hana Noodles

• ★ 3.7
• Chinese
• $

Try Hand-pulled Lanzhou noodles

Hana Noodles is a stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn making Lanzhou-style hand-pulled noodles, plus dumplings and scallion pancakes.

Jefe Tacos

• ★ 3.7
• Taqueria
• $

Try Al pastor taco

Jefe Tacos is a taco stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, serving al pastor, pollo asado and mushroom tacos on fresh ground corn tortillas.

BK Gangnam

• ★ 3.6
• Korean
• $

Try Bulgogi gimbap roll

BK Gangnam is a Korean street food stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, selling fried chicken sandwiches, wings, gimbap rolls and Korean corn dogs.

Dan & John's Wings

• ★ 3.7
• American
• $

Try Buffalo wings

Dan & John's Wings is a Buffalo-style wing stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, born from wings made in a Brooklyn apartment during Bills games.

Okey Ecuadorian Food

• ★ 4.0
• Ecuadorian
• $

Try Encebollado and churrasco

Okey Ecuadorian Food is a stall in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn serving Ecuadorian breakfast, lunch and dinner staples such as encebollado and churrasco.

Eight Turn Crepe

• ★ 3.6
• Japanese
• $

Try Cone-shaped crepes

Eight Turn Crepe is a stall inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn making Japanese-style cone crepes with gluten-free rice flour batter, sweet and savory.

Kotti Berliner Döner Kebab

• ★ 4.1
• Turkish
• $

Try Döner kebab in pide

Kotti Berliner Döner Kebab is a stall in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn selling Berlin-style döner kebab in Turkish pide bread, plus wraps and a kebab taco.

Likkle More Jerk

• ★ 4.0
• Caribbean
• $

Try Jerk chicken with rice and peas

Likkle More Jerk is a fast-casual Jamaican stall in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, rooted in Montego Bay, serving jerk chicken, jerk pork and oxtail stew.

Baby's Buns & Buckets

• ★ 4.1
• Thai
• $

Try Fried chicken slider

Baby's Buns & Buckets is a family-run stall in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn that pairs Thai street food with American fast food, like fried chicken sliders.

Fat Fowl

• ★ 4.2
• Caribbean
• $

Try Oxtail grilled cheese

Fat Fowl is a stall in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn from St. Lucian chef Shorne Benjamin, with an oxtail grilled cheese and lavender rotisserie chicken.

DeKalb Market Hall

• ★ 4.3
• Food hall
• $

DeKalb Market Hall is a food hall on the lower level of City Point in Downtown Brooklyn, with stalls from A Taste of Katz's to Pierogi Boys.

Atlantic Antic

• ★ 3.9

The Atlantic Antic closes over a mile of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn for a Sunday street festival of food, music and shopping, run by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation.

Sea & Soil

• ★ 4.0
• Sandwich
• $$

Try Sandwich on house bread

Sea & Soil is a worker-owned sandwich shop on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, selling smoked trout and curry lentil sandwiches on a $13 to $24 sliding scale.