Thirstbaravin seeking chef and servers

Here's the ads on craigslist. and here.

New bar, Dean Street, to take over old space of Tavern on Dean

The Prospect Heights Patch reports that the old Tavern on Dean space is slated to become a bar called 'Dean Street.' Other reports have said that the space will become half bar, half cupcake shop. Any news on this one?

Hanson Dry - new Clinton Hill watering hole

Grubstreet has a nice slide show on the new bar on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill.

Formerly a laundromat, the spot at 925 Fulton Street is a joint venture between a few Brooklyn drinkeratis -- namely the owners of Southpaw, Franklin Park, Cornelius and Soda Bar.

Murder at Branded Saloon

At 3:20am this morning, an ex-con stabbed the bartender at Branded Saloon 8 times, according to one report.

Check the gory coverage here:

NY Mag

Daily News

NY Post

Hot Bird food truck debuts

Per grubstreet, Clinton Hill bar Hot Bird now has Alan Harding's food truck in action.

Click thru for the full menu.

Big day for Dean Street on Saturday, June 26th

With the farewell block party for Tavern on Dean and the huge US-Ghana match going on at Woodwork on Saturday, it means there will be quite a festive atmosphere on Dean Street between Vanderbilt and Underhill this Saturday.

(Another) new bar opens up on Vanderbilt

Branded Saloon, with a honky-tonk theme, has opened up on Vanderbilt. Most importantly, it has Kelso on tap.

Woodwork named one of top soccer bars

GQ did a piece on the best soccer bars in the US and Prospect Heights' own Woodwork made the list.

Here's the link to the GQ article.

Vanderbilt Avenue - the new 'it' street

Per the NY Post.

New bar Woodwork experiences Oscars whirlwind

Per the NY Times:

The Oscar for Bad Timing, however, should go to Ross Greenberg. In January, he opened what he calls a sexy soccer bar, Woodwork, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The bar was outfitted with three 50-inch flat screens, and he began as a DirecTV customer. On Wednesday, he switched to — you guessed it — Cablevision.

Patrons had been promised an Oscar bash, starting at 7 p.m. With a few hours to go, he was still sweating it out. “We’re going to do everything in our power to watch the Oscars tonight,” he said, as he started listing some options — one more unlikely than the next. “We can stream it from the Internet. Is it on a Spanish channel?”

Then he had the idea of trying to reconnect the dormant DirecTV dish on the roof. But that made him nervous. So Matthew Pozzi, the co-owner, hurried over to the Apple store in SoHo and bought an adapter that allowed them to transmit the ceremony from Mr. Greenberg’s MacBook onto the three TVs.

But that method soon developed problems, and a dozen customers, apparently frustrated over the prospect of an Oscar-less night, left the bar, Mr. Greenberg said. Then, after ABC and Cablevision reached their temporary agreement, “All of a sudden they turned the channel back on. Everything is good now.”

New bar on Vanderbilt and Dean - Woodwork

Billed as a European soccer bar, this place will have wine and bottled beer.

Here's a website we dug up on the space called Woodwork.

Apparently it will be serving only organic-when-possible food.

Washington Avenue keeps on rolling around

Per brownstoner.com, a new steampunk (what's that, you say?wikipedia entry.) bar is opening up at 683 Washington Avenue next to rawstar. It's called Way Station and they have their own blog also.

Prospect Heights bars in NY Mag

If you needed further proof that bored Manhattanites are coming to
Brooklyn for their weekend drinking, look no further than this week's New York Magazine feature on bar crawls.

At left is the Prospect Heights bar crawl. Two of the five, Washington Commons and Manhattans, have just opened up in the past month.

A bevy of drinking/eating places opening up in Prospect Heights

Gothamist talks about the Flying Monkey bar that will be opening across the street from Barrette.

Two new spots on Washington

The former space of Ripple will now be a dive bar called Manhattan's. (via curbed.com)

The second spot is a new place called Washington Commons at Park and Washington.

New bar near the Washington Condos

As brownstoner notes, the bar is called Flying Monkey and is fairly large - 1,500 square feet at 706 Washington Avenue.

New bar - 'Cornelius' - to open at Vanderbilt/Pacific

Via brooklynian, this eater.com reports on a new bar from the owners of Le Gamin, Soda and Franklin Park.

One commenter says that Cornelius is opening at the former spot of Noo-na, the ill-fated Korean restaurant.

The Hideout scores in NY Times's Boite listing

The owners of the Hideout, Fort Greene's latest boite has scored a coupe using their PR contacts, as this weekend's featured listing in the New York Time's Style section where they profile one new bar a week.

Qaseem Muhammad and partners WBLS radio host Dahved Levy and Asio Highsmith are the owners for this new bar which features $14 cocktails, $300 bottles of champagne, and gasp, bottle service. All in a new bar that seats about 40.

Check the latest reviews on yelp. It's a mixed bunch. But then check out this gawker rant. Apparently 'dressed-up jeans' warrants an upturned eyebrow, as is discussion of in-vitro fertilization.