Dining Out: Skating up an appetite at Bluestone Café
Bluestone Café definitely nails the first commandment of real estate: location, location, location. Sitting next to Prospect Park’s new Lakeside ice rink and outdoor community space, the restaurant is a relaxing oasis with floor-to-ceiling views of skaters enjoying the park’s winter wonderland.
What makes Bluestone really stand out, however, is its menu of Brooklyn-inspired casual cuisine, created by Executive Chef Andy Seidel and designed to satiate any palate. Thus far, his ambitious goal of pleasing the masses as much as possible has met with some success. Case in point: both the Three Grilled Cheese and Kale sandwich ($7.50) and the Mac & Cheese ($5) have been popular sellers among kids and adults alike.
The sandwich comes on two thick slices of buttered and toasted bread and features a perfectly gooey-yet-not-messy combination of three types of cheese and still-crisp leaves of kale and tomato slices.