Where to Eat in Brooklyn This Week

By Brooklyn Magazine

Keeping up with the culinary action in Brooklyn is almost futile. Even with our help, there aren’t nearly enough meals or minutes in the day to hit them all, which is why we’ve been trying something new these last few weeks, sending some suggested destinations directly to your inbox, so you always know where to eat, no matter which corner of Kings County you might be exploring. 

This week, we’re exploring the fascinating, but not terribly surprising, proliferation of a very simple dining concept in a very specific part of town. Namely, the bistro and its absolute dominance of restaurant openings north of Prospect Park, but most acutely, in the blocks stretching from South and East Williamsburg to Greenpoint’s blossoming restaurant row.

First up, our latest on Arthur, an “aspiring” neighborhood spot in the former Fulgurances Laundromat location on Franklin Street, where Chef Kevin Finch and his partner Alexa Finch are slinging stalwart steak tartare, “brioche martinis,” a rich, custard-like brown butter sundae, and some of the best snails we’ve ever had. Then there’s Little Grand, a smash hit from Wildair and Hotel Delmano alums, who are building a devout local following by keeping the menus stripped-down and seasonal. And finally, in a part of Williamsburg that’s somehow retained the charm of a bygone version of the neighborhood, Chef Stephany Burgos is working magic at Good Days on South 6th Street, where everything from the shrimp cocktail to the steak frites to the tahini chocolate cake are so spectacularly elevated and executed, you’ll fall hard at first bite, or by the second one, at the very latest.

See where to eat this week in Brooklyn below.

Photo by Scott Lynch

At Arthur, Greenpoint Gets a Playful Neighborhood Bistro with Parisian Precision

Fulgurances Laundromat, the Brooklyn offshoot of the legendary Paris restaurant, had served as a sort of chef incubator since 2021, with the likes of Fidel Caballero (now doing incredible stuff at Corima, Vato, and Bar Chucho), Alexia Duchêne (now with her own restaurant, Le Chêne, in the West Village), and Nicholas Tamburo (now of the amazing Smithereens in the East Village) rotating in and out of three-month-long residencies on Franklin Street’s blossoming restaurant row.

The Fulgurances team pulled the plug on the operation at the end of 2025 to set up shop down the street at the new wine bar and rotisserie chicken spot Gigi’s, but when they left the keys went to chef Kevin Finch, who, among his long list of bona fides, had done a residency of his own both here and in Paris, and who just opened, with his partner Alexa Finch, a lively and inviting new bistro in the space called Arthur.

Arthur is an “aspiring neighborhood restaurant,” Chef Finch told Brooklyn Magazine. “It’s kind of my approach to casual service dining food. Not hoity toity or super high-end, but there’s a lot of technique, labor, and skill that goes into making each dish. It’s essentially casual food without shortcuts. Integrity is the focal point of everything we do.”

Photo by Scott Lynch

Good Days is an Irresistible New Gem in South Williamsburg

I fell hard for Good Days with my very first bite.

That’s not entirely true. I actually already liked Good Days before I even walked in, as soon as I clocked that it was in the old Fatty ‘Cue/Loosie Rouge space, on a South 6th Street block that still feels a little like the Williamsburg of yore. “Everybody who lived around here before Covid has a Loosie Rouge story,” Good Days’s co-owner Amanda Norton told Brooklyn Magazine, and she’s not wrong.

And I started crushing hard on the place during a quick walk-through, making my way from the low-ceilinged front room, with its beachy tiled bar, up a couple of steps into the soaring back dining area starring a very rad, very red, faceless portrait, until finally emerging onto a pretty, soon-to-be-winterized back patio, complete with wood-burning stove and fairy lights. Good Days is cozy, cute, filled with homey touches, and it’s clearly been created with a whole lot of love.

But it was that first taste of chef and co-owner Stephany Burgos’s cooking, in this case her shrimp cocktail, that really sealed the deal. Like a lot of things on the Good Days menu, the dish may sound like pretty basic comfort food, but Burgos is apparently a genius, switching up a small detail and bringing in an unexpected ingredient that, without mucking up its core identity, pushes something familiar into new territory.

Photo by Scott Lynch

Little Grand is a Big Hit in East Williamsburg

Little Grand, which opened late this past summer on the corner of Grand and Humboldt, is a welcoming, bistro-vibing bar and restaurant from longtime Williamsburg residents and restaurateurs Michael Smart (also of Hotel Delmano, established 2004) and Claudio Coronas (D.O.C. Wine Bar, since 2001), and clearly they’re doing something right.

By six o’clock last Friday evening, pretty much every seat in the place was filled, servers scurrying about with armloads of espresso martinis and such, chef Salem Williams sending out an appealing array of punchy bar snacks, briny treats from the raw bar, and a few meaty, meal-sized dishes.

It was getting loud for sure—the DJ, who goes on at 8:00 p.m. most nights, hadn’t even started yet—but the volume felt more festive and fun than forced and screamy. It was the kind of scene that you walk into and instantly say, “Ok, yeah, we made a good choice coming here tonight.” The room itself gives a strong first impression. Smart also operates a restaurant design business—with clients that include Keith McNally, Stephen Starr, Jodi Williams, and Rita Sodi—which totally tracks with the look of Little Grand. Think: Art Nouveau, or art deco, with industrial touches, or as Smart put it, “It kind of falls into the category of ‘1990s Keith McNally bistro.’”