Literal gut check: Name your favorite restaurant in Brooklyn. Buttermilk Channel. Dumont. Al Di La. Egg. Flatbush Farm. All are in our top picks, and all are included in The New Brooklyn Cookbook, which features hit recipes (and the stories behind them) from 31 of the best and most beloved restaurants in the borough. Authors Melissa and Brendan Vaughan are Brooklynites with quite the combined culinary pedigree — she develops recipes for Saveur, Real Simple, and Daniel Boulud. He's the senior editor atGQ and a previous food writer at Esquire. Celebrate their book's release tonight, with drinks and snacks by other lauded BK institutions: Smith and Vine, the Jakewalk, Sixpoint, and Stinky Bklyn.
- Leah Taylor
