Breakfast at Marlow & Sons

Marlow & Sons is where your local Brooklyn hipsters come to congregate in the morning. Moustaches, impossible haircuts, ironic t-shirts, liberal use of French swears in front of toddlers, $300 handcrafted leather bags, and a very cool barista who can make you anything – it’s got everything! But hey, if your first instinct is to dismiss it as a pretentious joint in an overwhelmingly gentrified neighbourhood, defer judgement till you’ve actually tasted the food. The menu is simple comfort food, but done very well and made with locally sourced ingredients. Martha Stewart even took a trip down there to get the recipe for their brick chicken, and that’s something, right? It’s also Dave 1′s (of Chromeo) restaurant of choice. Who wouldn’t trust the taste of a sexy French professor who once wrote a dissertation titled Theorizing the Pleasure of Reading in Eighteenth Century France?

We got the rhubarb scones, biscuit with egg and bacon, and poached eggs with polenta, shaved asparagus, and fiddleheads. We thought about prolonging our stay to get the lunch menu or coming back for dinner for the oysters, but it will have to be for the next time we’re back in New York.

Marlow & Sons
81 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Website | Yelp

96 Hours in New York, New York

New York, you were a blast, let’s do this again. Here’s a list of where we ate and some snapshots of our in between meals moments. Proper posts coming soon in the next few days and following weeks. Soooo…stay put!

Day 1: John Dory Oyster Bar, Motorino.

Day 2: Blue Bottle Highline, Momofuku Noodle Bar, La Colombe, Tasty Dumpling, Hearth.

Day 3: Abraço, Roberta’s, Bon Chon (Korean Fried Chicken).

Day 4: Marlow & Sons, Brooklyn Flea, Brooklyn Brewery, Mast Brothers Chocolate, Samurai Mama, Pies’n'Thighs.

Day 5: Doughboy Bake Shop, Blue Bottle Chelsea Siphon Bar.

Photos are a mix of digital and film from both Leo and myself…

New York City, Day 2 (Part 4): Bakeri Brooklyn

The quaintest little place. While I wasn’t entirely impressed by the coffee or the pastries, it was definitely an ‘experience’. We had the option of either sitting at their backyard patio or the inside, we chose an inside ‘booth’ with retro wallpapers. It felt as if we were on an old train.

Bakeri Brooklyn
150 Wythe Ave |Yelp

New York City, Day 2 (Part 3): Pies’n'Thighs, Brooklyn

Late lunch done well at Pies’n'Thighs. We had the Chicken & Waffles, Biscuit, Chicken & Grits, a doughnut and a deep fried apple pie. We couldn’t finish all our food and ended up packing two pieces of chicken and a waffle to go….and ended up having it for dinner with a baguette in our hostel. Vive la belle vie?

Pies’n'Thighs
166 S 4th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Website | Yelp