I biked past Toby's Public House on the way home from the Y the other day - I know, how stereotypically Brooklyn am I? Stay with me, though, because it's really exciting to find great places in the South Slope and Sunset Park. There are quite a few new places cropping up, rendering the gentrification visible.
So I tried Toby's Public House, which is altogether charming. It's a very New York/East Coast style bar, with exposed brick, brass fittings on the bar with the mirrored mantle, and lots of long wooden tables. Above the bar, individual biersteins with numbers written on the bottoms in grease-pencil hang on hooks, reachable with the bartenders hook. This is a place for locals, which, if you didn't get that from the biersteins, you would have figured it out when the bartender and the waitresses knew many of the patrons by name. The whole place had a very intimate vibe, from the open space to the open kitchen area where you can watch the cooks preparing your pizza and tossing it into the coal oven in the corner.
We ate and drank - justified by the fact that we have to really sample this place, right?
The manicotti appetizer:
I didn't manage to get pictures of the other courses because they disappeared so quickly: the arugula & parmesan salad, the coal oven Del Macellaio pizza, and tiramisu. All delicious: especially the pizza and the tiramisu, oh the tiramisu!
Highly recommend, & can't wait to go back.
Check out their website and menu here.
6th Ave @ 21st Street, South Slope, Bklyn, NY
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