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Sey Coffee
18 Grattan St., Williamsburg
Sey is a beautiful spot for sipping a morning cappuccino in solitude, catching up with a friend, or working on your laptop. (Not to mention it's a hub for some of the best street style– and people-watching in Brooklyn.) The space is industrial, with tons of potted plants. And in summer, they open up the street-facing windows so buckets of light stream in. The coffee is next level—they roast it themselves—and the savory croissants, sausage rolls, and almond cake are a whole other reason to post up here.
A&C Super
292 Leonard St., Williamsburg
The line always snakes out the door of this exquisite bakery, deli, and grocery on a cute corner in Williamsburg. The wait is worth it: Inside, Chrissa Yee and pastry chef Abby Swain churn out fresh-baked delight after delight. The breakfast sausage and egg sandwich (they even bake the bun) is something to dream about all week. The coffee is excellent and adorably packaged if you buy a bag to go. And A&C's homemade granola is the perfect blend of nuts, oats, peanut butter, maple syrup, and crunch. Other pantry staples we’re in love with: their homemade ice cream, the canned fish, fancy olive oil...everything really.
Gertie
357 Grand St., Williamsburg
Gertie is a cute, feminine riff on Jewish diners, and they serve great bagel sandwiches, challah French toast, latkes, matzo ball soup, and other New York–Jewish classics at breakfast, brunch, and lunch. They do drinks and snacks on weekend evenings, too: Come for fried dill pickles, pastrami on rye, and brine-y cocktails.
Win Son
159 Graham Ave., Williamsburg
Come here for excellent Taiwanese comfort food (spicy lamb noodles, fried eggplant, pork bao), cocktails inflected with East Asian flavors, and a lively, hip vibe at dinner and weekend brunch. Catty-corner from the restaurant, Win Son has an all-day bakery and café that attracts long lines on the weekend for mochi donuts, black sesame lattes, and bacon-and-cheese scallion pancakes. (Come on a weekday; it’s tamer.)
Tangerine
616 Lorimer St., Williamsburg
We love this boutique, which is stocked with clothes from Baserange, Deiji Studios, and Saks Potts, plus indie jewelry brands, boutique magazines, and all sorts of home goods and gifts. Their selection feels so fresh—if you’re looking for something fun and unique, start here.
Haricot Vert’s Dreamworld
119 N. 1st St., Williamsburg
Haricot Vert is best known for their necklaces, earrings, and bracelets with charms made from colorful collage cut-outs. Maybe you’ll take home a pair of perfectly mismatched earrings (one radis, one beurre?) or have the staff help you design something custom. Or if you give them a photograph—of your dog, perhaps, or your best friend’s face—they can turn it into a unique piece just for you. Their Williamsburg shop hosts DIY workshops in jewelry-making and collage, and you can book them for private events, too.
For All Things Good
314 Grand St., Williamsburg
This place isn’t fancy, but we like it for vegetarian Mexican food and soaking up sidewalk-cafe atmosphere. The squash-blossom quesadillas and fresh memelas (toasted masa cakes) are our favorites, and the hibiscus agua fresca is so refreshing.
Uva Wines & Spirits
237 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg
Brooklynites, rejoice: Bedford Avenue’s Uva is offering free delivery of its extensive selection of wines and spirits to most of the borough, and it’s shipping throughout the state. When it’s open, it’s not unusual to spot a leading NYC restaurateur or a food writer you’re obsessed with browsing the shelves of this small spot alongside locals who know a lot about wine. What we’re saying is that Uva is a wine shop for wine lovers, to the point that it has an entire section devoted to rare and fine bottles. And there are tons of affordably priced, interesting-to-drink bottles, too. If you’re in a curious yet noncommittal mood, click on a $15 bottle of Chilean Cabernet Franc. If you want to splurge or try something entirely new, hit the natural wine section or go wild on unusual champagnes. Uva has it all, and the enthusiastic staffers are available to help.
The Four Horsemen
295 Grand St., Williamsburg
We’re crazy for the Four Horsemen at the best of times, and now our craving for the niche biodynamic wines (available) and lemony bottarga pasta (sadly not) is in full overdrive. The restaurant is delivering a robust selection of natural wines and cocktails hand-batched by head bartender Orlando Franklin McCray. You’ll have to buy a snack to take advantage of cocktails or beer delivery, per the law; we strongly recommend the Spanish ham chips. Place your order through nextdoorspacebk.com.
Misi
329 Kent Ave., Williamsburg
Sunday nights belong to Williamsburg—specifically to the corner booth at Misi. Chef Missy Robbins’s handmade spinach-stuffed tortelli, marinated leeks topped with crunchy pistachios, and charred-pepper crostini are the reason Brooklyn became the coolest borough.
Images courtesy of Evan Sung.