Restaurant Review: Eclipse Restaurant, Sunset Park

Tonight, we tried a new Mexican restaurant in Sunset Park. Eclipse is located right on 4th Avenue, and easy to miss. Eclipse is a happy blend of delicious and relatively healthy "real" Mexican food and good decor and service. Unlike our other hotspots, who haven't invested in appearances, Eclipse has savvy decor to attract all sorts of clientele while keeping prices low. Also differentiating themselves from other hole-in-the-wall neighborhood places, they have a full bar (rather, than, say, Matamoros, where the situation is BYO).

I tried my favorite kind of tacos, carne enchilada (spicy grilled pork), 3 for $6. They weren't as spicy as other joints in the neighborhood, but they were rich in flavor and cooked cleanly, without a lot of grease. The ingredients in our pico de gallo salsa were incredibly fresh - you could taste it - and E practically huffed his bistec burrito.






In short, Eclipse is a great place to take people who enjoy lots of different kinds of food, but are afraid of places with tacky decor, menus in other languages if they exist at all, and waitstaff who don't speak English. The courtyard is lovely, the staff courteous, and it's the perfect place to take my parents when they're in town for some delicious food.

Eclipse Restaurant
4314 4th Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11232