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Sergio Hernandez, Bklyn Larder, Brooklyn Larder, Brooklyn, Park Slope, Recommendations, Where to buy food in Brooklyn, Where to eat in Brooklyn, Market recommendations, Where to buy food, Where to buy specialty items.
DELOUIS FILS
Available at: Bklyn Larder
Purchase at: Amazon.com
Aioli
Sauce aioli is lemony and garlicky.
FANCY MEATS OF VERMONT
Available at: Bklyn Larder
Meat / Veal
Amazing veal. They are the real deal, supporting small family dairy farms.
HELLMANN’S
Purchase at: Amazon.com
Mayonnaise
Every chef secretly loves it. It’s the right consistency for cooking with and the right balance of lemon and richness.
KEWPIE MAYONNAISE (JAPANESE)
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Mayonnaise
I love the umami flavor.
MALDON SEA SALT
Available at: Bklyn Larder
Salt
Love the delicate flakes that you can break up smaller by simply sprinkling between your fingers, or leave as is for a little texture in your salad or on top of your fish… it has a really clean saltiness, too.
RUSTICHELAA D’ABRUZZO
Available at: Bklyn Larder
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Pasta
Great quality dry pasta, like, for the texture, and coarseness, so the sauce will cling.
SRIRACHA HOT SAUCE
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Hot Sauce
Ok, there is nothing artisanal or organic about this… it’s just delicious, and highly addictive.
THE BEANERY
Only sold through stores.
Available at: Bklyn Larder
Dried Beans
Some kind of beans from The Beanery in Maine… usually Sulfar or Cannelini. They cook up so evenly and creamy because they are always from the recent harvest, unlike most dry beans which are all mixed up and sitting around a warehouse – we try to get our hands on as many of them as we can, because her crops are small & limited.
BEDFORD CHEESE
Williamsburg
Cheese / Market
Great selection, well-edited, well curated.
TWIG FARM
Vermont
Cheese
For raw milk goat cheeses, called Wheel, Tomme, and Square. The most perfectionist and talented domestic cheesemaker. They use a mixed herd of goats to make Catalan-style cheese.
UPLAND CHEESE
Wisconsin
Cheese
For Pleasant Ridge Reserve. Arguably the most consistent cheese made since the last 1980’s, Alpine style. This makes Europeans mad that Americans make such a good cheese.
HERITAGE FOODS
T: 718.389.0985
Meat
Formed as the sales and marketing arm for Slow Food USA. They only work with small farms, so you can trace the farm on the packaging. The animals are all well taken care of and we get our pork from them.
FORMAGGIO ESSEX
Lower East Side
Cheese
An offshoot of Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge run by Ayse Gurdall, and offering the same selections of top quality, unique artisan cheeses and cured meats that her father, Ishan has been importing himself for years.
MURRAY’S CHEESE
254 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014 (view map)
T: 888.MY.CHEEZ / (212) 243.3289
West Village
Cheese / Market
They do a great job. I would love to some day be as established as they are.
MURRAY’S CHEESE
Midtown East
Cheese / Market
BEER TABLE
Park Slope
American
Yes, the food, as well as the beer is terrific! They serve beer snacks like butter beans on toast with braised bacon. It’s rich and delicious.
BARK HOT DOGS
Park Slope
American
The owners of Bark Hot Dogs are two of the best cooks that I ever had the pleasure to work with. Josh Sharkey was the saucier at Cafe Gray when I was there and ended being Gray's Executive sous-chef by the time he left. Brandon Gillis was the sous-chef at Franny's for the first few years they were open. They are completely committed to using/sourcing local, high-quality ingredients for everything they serve and prepare at Bark.
BROOKVIN
Park Slope
Wine Bar
A wine bar with a great cheese program.
CAFE LE GAMIN
Prospect Heights
French Bistro
A young talented chef serving classics like Steak Frites and doing it really well.
LUCKY EIGHT
5204 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220 (view map)
T: 718.851.8862
Borough Park
Chinese
Amazing Chinese food.
MIMI’S HUMMUS
Prospect Park
Mediterranean
Amazing, fresh, Mediterranean food. I have brought so many friends here, who I think were just coming along to shut me up because I wouldn’t shut up about it… and they are all now believers! If Mimi’s was in my neighborhood, I would eat there 3-4 times a week…
TACOS MATAMOROS
4508 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220 (view map)
T: 718.871.7627
Sunset Park
Mexican
Chorizo and carne asada.
VINEGAR HILL HOUSE
72 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11201 (view map)
T: 718.522.1018
Dumbo
American
Brick Chicken and Double-cut Roasted Pork Chop.
CASELLULA
Hell’s Kitchen
Cheese / Wine bar
They have a very aggressive cheese list for a place that size and they do a really great job with their pairings.
FORMAGGIO KITCHEN
Cambridge
Cheese
One of the best cheese stores in the country.
SRIPRAPHAI
Woodside, Queens
Thai
For Thai food in Woodside. The crispy fried watercress salad is great. The crispy fried watercress salad is great. I think everybody in Gray Kunz’s kitchen was a SriPraPhai fan, and probably one of the chefs or sous chefs turned Chef Kunz onto it. Gray's cuisine has a lot of Thai influence, so the strong, aggressive flavors of chillies, lime juice and fish sauce always appealed to all of our palates.
VOLPETTI
Testaccio / Rome
FoodMarket
Awesome. Such an abundance of food in a small space, done the way I wish we could in the U.S. They’re able to leave things unwrapped and presented so fresh.
PECK
Milan/ Duomo
Gourmet Market
It is almost more like Grace’s Market on the Upper East Side. It’s really big, with side by side prosciutto slicers, and a huge pastry selection. It’s more chi chi, but very impressive. I love the quail eggs with mayonnaise. We actually made that dish and served them here at Bklyn Larder last summer.
OSTERIA SAN CESAREO
San Cesareo
Italian
Near Frascati, 20 minutes outside Rome… best meal I ever had overseas… il quinto quarto course was to die for!
TRATTORIA DE DORA
Via Palasciano, 28, 80122 Naples, Italy (view map)
T: +39/81.68.0519
Naples
Italian
Amazing seafood, beautifully prepared, really takes the cake.
TRATTORIA DE LA PESA
Via Giovanni Fantoni, 26, Milan 20148 Italy (view map)
Milan
Italian
Classic breaded and fried foods.
26 St. John Street, London EC1M 4AY, United Kingdom (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.7251.0848 (make a reservation)
City & East
English /British
Inspirational!
94-96 Commercial Street, London E1 6LZ, United Kingdom (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.7251.0848 (make a reservation)
City & East
English /British
WHAT
Recipes for mayonnaise, olive cake, caramel bars from Bklyn Larder.
Bklyn Larder
May 4, 2010
Brooklyn, NY
WHAT
Gourmet specialty shop.
WHY
House-made salads, sandwiches, desserts, an impressive cheese selection and artisanal grocery goods.
RECOMMENDED BY
- Chef Erik Desjarlais (Evangeline, Portland, ME)
RECOMMENDATIONS
Cheesemonger and co-owner Sergio Hernandez’s recommendations for food purveyors, markets, and restaurants in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Italy, and London.
