Around The World in 80 Minutes
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
“Autour Du Monde” is an apt phrase in the lives of Olivier Jimenez and Pauline Abd-el-Kader, who met in St. Maarten and literally traveled “around the world” to such far-flung places as Nepal, the Caribbean, Thailand, India and Morocco, eventually landing in Brooklyn and bringing with them a taste and love for world cuisine. And [...]
Hill Top Review: Castro’s Mexican
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
FIRST, there’s the burrito. That’s what Castro’s Mexican Restaurant is famous for. The two-pound, slightly browned coconut-sized sack of chicken, beef or, if you prefer, flounder is a go-to delivery option for many a famished Brooklynite who gets home too late to do anything useful with those leeks and onions acquired at the Fort Greene [...]
Hilltop Review: Il Porto & Mojito
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
At some point during the Hamptons real estate run-up a term was coined to differentiate the highly desirable coastal property from South Hampton to Montauk from the less fashionable areas north: “South of the Highway.” The same may be said about Fort Greene/Clinton Hill/Wallabout, if the highway in question is the BQE rather than Route [...]
