This month, the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) paid tribute to a successful restaurant that has thrived for 52 years on the avenue. Opened 52 years ago by owner Mohamad Salem, he named the restaurant after his home city, Tripoli, in the north of Lebanon. Originally a furniture designer and wood carver, Mohamad opened […]
COBBLE HILL — SAM’S RESTAURANT, A COURT STREET FIXTURE since 1930, was featured in the New York Times for playing itself in the movies. Its proprietor, Louis Migliaccio, took over in 2016 after his father’s death. For almost 95 years, Sam’s has offered traditional family-style Italian cooking and pizza. Nowadays, the restaurant’s main source of […]
BOERUM HILL — The Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) held its annual meeting Friday afternoon at Someday Bar, located at 364 Atlantic Ave., where BID staff and board members discussed the group’s accomplishments of this past year. The BID helps to promote and catalyze the growth of more than 300 small businesses along a 1.2-mile […]