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