Neighborhood Crawl: Smith Street in Carroll Gardens (and Cobble Hill)
This sweet and unassuming new eatery has managed not to raise our shackles with an increasingly humdrum, seasonal/local mission statement. Grab a seat in the leafy backyard and tuck into one of the justly lauded crispy kale salads (currently tossed with green papaya, radish and peanuts), or anything focused on pasta (linguine with lemon, littleneck clams, and peekytoe crab), or fish (branzino with baby fennel, zucchini, and green tomato jus).