For months, I've been planning on visiting my brother, Tom, and his girlfriend, Gabi during my spring break. They moved to Brooklyn during the Fall and from what they've told me it looks like a cool place.
On Thursday, I took the 3:15 pm train from South Station in Boston which arrived in New York's Penn Station at 7:21 pm, where Tom and Gabi picked me up. Gabi made reservations at this restaurant in Hell's Kitchen called Bea, a great little place with a theme of black and white photographs and old movies.
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I had the macaroni and cheese; Gabi had the margarita pizza with pancetta; Tom had the pork dumplings. We shared some of our food with each other and it was delicious. As I was going to the bathroom, they were playing La Bamba by Richie Valens, one of my favorite songs of the 1950s.
I would definitely recommend Bea. The decor, food, and music were all amazing.
Gabi got a text from a friend, saying that she was going to perform to a bar in Brooklyn called "Flowers for all Occasions." We took the subway to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, where the bar is situated. "Flowers for all Occasions" is exactly the type of place I wanted to go to when I decided to go to Brooklyn: a weird little, hole-in-the-wall, hipster dive bar. It is decorated like an elementary school art classroom (silver foil, cardboard traffic cones, and paper mache monster heads on the ceiling; Christmas lights and splotches of paint on the walls), weird music is played, and it has the highest concentration of people with mullets that I've ever seen. It is an interesting place, very artsy and crazy and I would love to go back.
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