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[Wilfrid]

I asked some friends for recommendations, and they sent me to Cafe Ghia. Limited in ambition (it's basically a bar with a short menu and some specials), it's nevertheless very nice.

Think cheeses, two or three types of charcuterie, a couple of entrees, many salads.

[Sneakeater]

Looks like Wilfrid's question has finally been answered.

[Daniel]

11 thousand square feet. That is a lot of people who do not know how to roll meat into a ball.

[Wilfrid]

Heading for a new restaurant (there is one!) I stepped on a rat. Quite large. Carried me a yard or so down the street. Closest I'm likely to get to a skateboard experience.

Meanwhile:

Bushwick is getting a new music venue and high-end bar called the Well... In the front is a bar with twenty kinds of champagne and a wall of liquor, but mostly beer—three hundred varieties; in the back is an eleven-thousand-square-foot outdoor performance space...

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[Sneakeater]

Were you going to Mazelle? I might go tonight.

[Lex]

Heading for a new restaurant (there is one!) I stepped on a rat. Quite large. Carried me a yard or so down the street.

Imagine the fun if you stepped on two at once.

[Steve R.]

"Brooklyn Based" blog/newsletter: http://brooklynbased...wick-immersion/

As stated: "See you in Bushwick on July 28! Ironic t-shirt, beard and oversized glasses totally optional".

The Total Bushwick Immersion
Saturday, July 28, noon-6pm
Map of stops and Immersion card pickup points here
RSVP on Facebook for updates

https://maps.google....009938,0.021501

[Suzanne F]

Aw, gee whiz, we'll be away then.

[Wilfrid]

I didn't have this when I wrote the Pink Pig fall previews. Per Eater:

A new farm-to-table restaurant called Dear Bushwick will open at 41 Wilson Avenue on September 18. Chef Jessica Wilson (Prune, Goat Town) will prepare English dishes like sausage and meat pie, and bar consultant Natasha David (Vandaag, Maison Premiere) tells Eater that the bar program will be like "taking a ride with a British sailor during the height of the British Empire."

Well, there'll be rum. What else...?

[Orik]

The Victualing Board actually kept meticulous records of a sailor’s official rations: 1 lb of bread and 1 gallon of beer per day (!), plus 1 lb of pork twice a week, 2 lbs of beef twice a week, or butter and cheese the other three days. But when the going got tough out in the middle of watery nowhere, did sailors actually get their rations? Yes, it seems, based on an analysis of nitrogen isotopes extracted from the bones of 80 sailors. The elevated levels of nitrogen suggested that sailors did get as much beef and pork as the Victualing Board recorded. And despite being at sea, they didn’t seem to eat much fish.

[Wilfrid]

For a crew of 40 sailors, eating 2lbs of beef twice a week, on a ten week voyage, it would absolutely make sense to "break down" a whole beef steer of average weight. (And douse it with salt, or something.)

I like to think of small Bushwick bistros as fightin' ships 'o the line, athwart the Spanish main, so it doubtless makes sense for them too.

[Sneakeater]

How can Wilfrid insist that Bushwick has no dining scene, when it's now officially over?

[Wilfrid]

As I reported on the Pink Pig last week, Bushwick is at last starting to show signs of life beyond Roberta's.

This article doesn't provide much evidence, though:

• Bushwick Natural (pictured) is just a health food store.
  
• Momo is poor: do not travel for it.
  
• Mazelle's "fare" consists of bar snacks. Hard to put a meal together.
  
• Skytown: this used to be Beauty Bar. Limited, cafe-style menu.
  
• 983: Former Life Cafe, and yes, improved.

Dear Bushwick, which is a restaurant, is unlucky to be omitted. If you're looking for bar food, Tandem and Miles are good options.

[Sneakeater]

Last sentence.

[SethG]

I love it.  Half a million dollars for a ground floor 1100-square-foot apartment.  In BUSHWICK.  Why do we live in this ridiculous city?