Strange Delight

It was just a couple of years ago that BKMAG first celebrated the borough’s new “Golden Age” of pastry, the rapid influx of fun and delicious new bakeries popping up all over Kings County. Which isn’t to say we don’t also love our Brooklyn institutions: those Polish bakeries of Greenpoint, the Russian bakeries of Brighton…

For all its supertalls, high-rises, scaffolding, and henge-worthy structures, it’s easy to dismiss Downtown Brooklyn as a side quest to a stay, overnight or extended, in the County of Kings. But it’s 2026, and the district, more of a nexus of neighborhoods than one defined by firm cultural or geographic boundaries, has bloomed well beyond…

Open Kitchen is a monthly interview column covering the joys and frustrations of Brooklyn restaurant operation in all its many forms. For February, we spoke to Amanda Perdomo, the chef/owner of Amanda’s Good Morning Cafe. When you close your eyes and think of Fort Greene, you see the fork at Lafayette and Fulton, a block…