Hood News

- James is open! I am dying to check out this new Prospect Heights restaurant. From Grub Street, "Owners Deborah Williamson and Bryan Calvert (the latter a Bouley and Union Pacific veteran) found a 100-year-old brownstone on St. Marks and Carlton avenues for their new venture, but don't expect the menu to be aged. Look for crispy sweetbreads with rhubarb-honey glaze, rack of lamb with summer-bean stew, a grass-fed burger with Cotswold cheese, and so forth." Yum.

- The UnFancy Food Show is this weekend at the East River Bar in Williamsburg

- Time Out reports "Former Asiate chef Eton Chan has opened a handmade dumpling house with shaved ice on the menu at 205 Sackett Street, near Henry Street."

- They also report that the Chocolate Room, next to the Cobble Hill Cinemas is now open.

- Brownstoner says there is (another) new Thai place on 5th Ave in the Slope, Mee. Everyone's gotta love cheap thai food.

- A new restaurant, The General Greene, is taking over where June use to be in Fort Greene. ClitnonHillBlog has photos and says it was open this past weekend.

(Photo courtesy of NY Magazine)