Eat (And Drink) Your Way Through Literary Brooklyn
Heights Cafe
Not a restaurant anyone ever really needs to go out of their way to get to, but what it does have going for it is that it’s just down the block from Norman Mailer’s famous Brooklyn Heights home on Montague St., and prior to his death he was a regular here (or so the owners claim). Anyway, in a neighborhood full of literary landmarks (and a borough so rapidly changing that most places your favorite authors would have frequented are long gone), it’s nice to have a place to sit outside, take in the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and have a drink while picturing Mailer throwing a tantrum and verbally abusing the waiter (or, I suppose, just enjoying a quiet sandwich in his old age).