Brooklyn!

Jenn Anderson led a Brooklyn adventure Friday night which started with real microbrews and culminated at probably the coolest place I've been to in all of my NYC adventures, this move and all trips included.

The Brooklyn Brewery hosts Friday Happy Hour parties from 6-11PM every Friday night. Yes, that's some happy hour! In as much as I was expecting a Red Hook or Pyramid or Hale's or Elysian-like ambiance, it was none of those things. Instead, it was picnic tables in a warehouse with a pool table and people mingling around with their own cards/games/food and simply enjoying $3 pints of fresh draughts (or 7 for only $20!). I enjoyed BB's "Light" and was particularly fond of their IPA. It was a perfect respite from life in Manhattan -- even though it's only a hop, skip and jump away. Jenn's friends Karen and Erin also joined, as did Jay and Michele. It was the first time of what will be many at the Brooklyn Brewery, I can tell.

From there, we hit MyMoon -- an uber cool restaurant-bar-lounge-art space right off Bedford. It was the ultimate space: trendy NYC with no hint of pretension. I'm thrilled with this find; the bathrooms were cool -- and even with a communal sink, which you may know weirds me out. I had a great chat with the GM and loved Server Julie. A round of drinks, calamari, olives and fried octopus later and we rushed back to the subway, having heard the last one left at midnight. Alas.

I also stopped in to Fornino and got to say 'hi' to Mindy's good friend Clifton. However brief, it was good to see him and walk steps previously taken when Mindy used to live in Williamsburg. I love that the world is small... and it was made even more so from a great night in charming Brooklyn with great beer, great friends, a great find in MyMoon, and great memories to share here.