Smorgasburg: Mr. FIPS goes to Williamsburg

Phew! Thank god that Rapture thing didn't happen on Saturday, huh? Giant earthquakes & hellfire & shit? Not getting to see the how the first season of The Killing turns out? No thanks, Jebus.

On the upside, once word got out that God was going to pluck up all the good Christians & unleash pain on the rest of us, from that point on everything in my world took on a mocking, "this may be the last time" tone. For those like me who tend to look at everything through atheist-framed, cynic-colored glasses, the Rapture was pure comedy gold. After all, it's fun to play pretend.

Case in point: last week I told Erica that my Park Slope End of Days meal would be "as many jerk BBQ chicken littles from Atomic Wings as possible & 7-8 growlers of beer from Bierkraft." I wasn't lying when I said that. If the Rapture was actually going down, that’s what I'd go for in Park Slope.

Since I was fairly certain that it was going to be a Rapture-free Saturday, I instead met up with a friend in Williamsburg for the opening of the Brooklyn Flea's questionably-named Smorgasburg food market. Here, I'd assemble my cynical, mocktastic End of Days meal. Also, I figured that on the off chance that the Rapture actually did happen, going to Williamsburg first would help ease me into it.

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[WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT...] Sotto Voce

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WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses.  We're going to pick one Park Slope resto a week and recommend our favorite dish at each.  Are we right?  Are we wrong?  YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.  

I used to live literally around the corner for Sotto Voce (225 7th Avenue, 718-369-9322), so I have been known to patronize their mediocre brunch because it is cheap and they offer unlimited drinks.

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: Your Best Park Slope End of Days Meal?

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Ok, ppl: time to hop to it!

In case you can't afford a NY Times digital subscription, we're here to tell you that the world is ending tomorrow! And so to celebrate our last day on Earth together before we're all welcomed into God's kingdom, or Jesus's or whatever, we thought it might be fun to create the ultimate Park Slope end of days meal.

The only rules are: there are none! You can create all elements of your meal from totally diff spots around the nabe...or anywhere really. THE WORLD IS FUCKING ENDING! DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT!

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Where Park Slopers Are *Really* Eating

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Ok, so we're gonna drop the results of our Best of Park Slope polls very soon, but in the meantime, peep a list of all the Park Slope restaurants where all your asses are actually eating.

It's kind of shocksville.

Money management tool Bundle.com just released a new feature that allows you to see the restaurants, bars and shops that people are spending money in your neighborhood, based on ACTUAL bank records.

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[REVIEW'D] DUMPLINGS AND THINGS: I SECOND THAT!

So after reading the Brooklynian and Here's Park Slope reviews of newbie cheap eats Dumplings and Things, I decided to venture out into the rainy drizzle-that's-going-to-last-all-fucking-month-I-guess and head over to 5th ave for some dumpling-y goodness. 

The place was fairly quiet, although it was 2:30 on a Monday afternoon and some people have REAL jobs and whatnot. The gentleman behind the counter was really nice and apologized for the missing drink machine that would have granted me the diet coke that I asked for. But it's only day two, so I can't really knock them for that. PLUS, for $2 you can spin your own cotton candy!

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