lundy's

The thing about any “best of” Brooklyn food list is this: the restaurant landscape changes so often here, so many new openings and/or menus changing all the time, that even comprehensively researched and confidently delivered surveys and rankings of burgers published less than a year ago could always use an update. So even though I…

Imagine being transported back to 1920s Sheepshead Bay, to the Emmons Avenue waterfront on a warm summer’s night, back when Frederick William Irving Lundy’s namesake restaurant was the talk of South Brooklyn, serving some 15,000 patrons a day and, legend has it, openly pouring booze in the face of Prohibition. The place must have been…

Lundy’s, the old-school seafood restaurant once located in Sheepshead Bay and known for serving up to 2,600 guests at any given time, is reopening in Brooklyn after shutting down nearly 20 years ago, according to Gothamist. Sandra Snyder, the wife of Red Hook Winery’s Mark Snyder, is behind the reopening. Snyder said the restaurant will…