Foodie Crawl

Eat Your Way Down Smith Street

Six small plates, no reservations, and a deliberate route that keeps you hungry between stops.

City
Brooklyn, New York
Total time
3 hr
Distance
2.6 km
Stops
6
  1. 1

    Court Street Grocers

    Carroll Gardens · stay 20 min

    Split one sandwich, not two. The Italian Combo is the benchmark everything after this gets measured against.

  2. 2

    7 min walk

    Mazzola Bakery

    Carroll Gardens · stay 10 min

    Lard bread, still warm if you time it before four. Buy it for later and carry it; the smell is part of the walk.

  3. 3

    6 min walk

    Frankies 457 garden

    Carroll Gardens · stay 40 min

    Cavatelli with hot sausage and browned sage butter in a back garden strung with bulbs. One plate between two.

  4. 4

    11 min walk

    Buttermilk Channel

    Columbia Waterfront · stay 30 min

    Bar seats only. Pecan-pie milkshake with a bourbon back — an absurd order that works.

  5. 5

    16 min walk

    Sahadi's

    Brooklyn Heights · stay 20 min

    A hundred-year-old pantry. Olives by weight, pistachio halva, and things you'll be glad you carried home.

  6. 6

    10 min walk

    Brooklyn Heights Promenade

    Brooklyn Heights · stay 20 min

    End here with the bread. Manhattan across the water, the expressway humming below your feet.

  7. End of the walk — 3 hr, about 2.6 km on foot.