Brooklyn On a Budget: 10 Cheap Eats at Brooklyn’s Best Restaurants
The Elm
Newely opened and already well-known for bringing renowned chef Paul Liebrandt away from Manhattan, the Elm is also quickly gaining a reputation for being one of the most innovative and exciting new restaurants in Brooklyn. And one of the more expensive ones. I’m just going to be straight here. You can’t really do dinner on a budget. But! You can eat breakfast here, which is also supervised (if not usually cooked) by Liebrandt. And the breakfast is amazing. There’s lobster Benedict on a homemade crumpet ($19) or house made granola with sheep’s milk yogurt and huckleberry compote ($12), but I’d go with the Belgian waffles which feature local maple syrup and blackberry butter. ($14) Because, really, is anything better than waffles? No. Nothing.
The Elm; 160 North 12th Street, Williamsburg