As Sunday was a beautiful day we decided to head back over to Williamsburg to check out two points of interest. Meat Hook a store within a store. Meat Hook is a wonderful butcher shop inside the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs' new digs at 100 Frost Street right under the BQE. We had been to The Brooklyn Kitchen's original store on Lorimer but have been hearing great things about the new location, so we went to check it out. Great space, they have two working kitchen labs where they conduct classes, and are available to be rented, and of course the awesome Meat Hook butcher shop in addition to a very culled array of kitchen necessities.
Perusing the meat cases we thought the handmade sausages looked amazing and we'll be returning to make a few test purchases! Some awesome looking aged beef, lots of hams, pork tenderloins & chops; some lamb and chickens and rabbits were in the meat cases as well. They also carry a variety of frozen homemade stocks that I bet are amazing! A few dairy products and a handful of produce like purple and pink radishes! All products are from local farms.
Next we went to Marlow & Daughters @95 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This butcher shop is located right down the street from the Famous Peter Luger Steak House. Another block away are Marlow & Sons and Diner Restaurants owned by the proprietors of Marlow & Daughters. Here also, were amazing looking cuts of meat and some special cheeses, along with some pantry stables, selected produce, bread and dairy products. As it was now getting late and we needed to get something for dinner we opted to purchase the Lamb and Black Olive Sausage for dinner Sunday night and a chicken to roast with lemons and olives from Alex's Day Off. The recipe is here. Picked up some ramps, baby carrots and asparagus to go with the roast chicken. Got the olives we needed and a chunk of sourdough artisan bread! Once we were home, I browned the sausage and braised it with onions, fennel and cabbage, using a grainy dijon mustard and white wine. Served it with simple parsley new potatoes. Another great meal.
After dinner we were discussing the blog and decided we should have grabbed some pictures of our journey, so since we had Monday off this week we returned to Williamsburg to grab the pics and went to Motorino for lunch! Motorino's is located @319 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We've been hearing about the wonderful Pizzeria Napolitana and wanted to give it a try! We decided on the Prix Fixe lunch @ $11! I started with today's soup: Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup and Nana had a mixed green salad. She ordered the Brussels Sprout Pizza which had: fior di latte / pancetta afumicatta / garlic / parmigiano reggiano. I had the Margherita tomato / fior di latte / basil. Both were delish! Lunch was $22! Well worth it! We were very satisfied and look forward to returning soon!
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