Four reasons foodies love Bushwick

Eye On Real Estate

August 5, 2015 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

My Blue Heaven — the building that houses Vietnamese restaurant Falansai is eye-catching at dusk. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

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Night And Day, You Are The One — for Brooklyn foodies.

That’s Bushwick we’re talking about.

Gourmet eaters would looove the micro greens grown at the neighborhood’s very own aquaponic farm, Edenworks. But its vegetables are being sold solely to restaurants.

To console readers who are disappointed because they can’t buy Edenworks’ rainbow chard, dandelion greens and purslane, we took pictures at four places in Bushwick that make foodies happy Night And Day. (Now that we’ve mentioned it twice, it’s time to thank Cole Porter for that immortal song.)

* Falansai at 112 Harrison Place, a Vietnamese restaurant listed in the prestigious Michelin Guide, has a dish on its dinner menu called Clay Pot Catfish that has won critics’ raves. The Imperial Rolls are a popular appetizer.

The fenced-in garden with a small lily pond is a great warm-weather spot to nosh at night.

* We tried the Cowabunga Dude pizza for lunch at Roberta’s, the high-profile restaurant at 261 Moore St.

This pie is a dynamite combination of thinly shaved pepperoni and mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, red onion, tomato and two types of cheese, parmigiano and caciocavallo. Buon appetito to all you California surfers.

* Dillinger’s, a coffee shop at 146 Evergreen Ave., keeps Russian books and magazines on hand for customers to look at and dishes up a palette-pleasing combination of Russian and American food.

We love Dillinger’s pelmeni — aka Russian dumplings, as food-savvy Brooklynites know. But the avocado toast with a fried egg is a more photogenic breakfast option. And it’s really good.

* For snack time, nothing could be finer than the dandy candy crafted at Fine & Raw Chocolate at 288 Seigel St. We’re partial to the hazelnut truffles.

There’s a chocolate factory right in the store. Willy Wonka would approve.

We also snapped shots of eye-popping Bushwick murals and graffiti — at sites we hadn’t previously photographed. Take a look.