Myrtle Shuffle

Tomatoes
I love the american tapas at the General Greene, the new restaurant on Dekalb and Clermont, and am developing something of an addiction to their heirloom tomato salad. So simple (salt and olive oil) and yet so tasty. The white wine it goes best with is also the cheapest one on the menu, which can’t hurt. Of course when tomato season is here and the Farmers Market offers as many varieties of tomatoes as Carrie Bradshaw has shoes, I’ll prefer to eat my own.

Iceberg. Bacon.
The iceberg wedge plate may sound like a joke but it doesn’t taste like one. It is indeed a wedge of iceberg lettuce but how can anything taste less than succulent dressed in buttermilk and … Bacon. Oh and although I still haven’t tried their candied bacon I’ve definitely had their bacon dates.

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Hadn’t hung out on Fulton in a while so I am surprised to discover the many newish boutiques here. Pictured are Heartbeat and Supernova which are side by side on the strip.



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At Smooch on Dekalb and Carlton for a much needed pre-work, pre-Manhattan iced tea.

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Yet another non-Myrtle hangout for me. Worth sharing though because I almost never come here. Mullane’s is our non-dive Irish pub. (The Alibi being the divy version.) High ceilings, new fixtures, brick walls, relatively new. Tonight is a mellow early week night.



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Looks like the establishment replacing June at the corner of Dekalb and Clermont is called The General Greene, probably the man after whom the neighborhood was named.

Update: Now that I’m in front of a computer, I just googled General Greene and it looks like Fort Greene is indeed named after him. There is even a local blog called The General Greene  which bears his picture. Here is the wikipedia entry on General Greene.

If the flowers that punctuate the tables at Smooch were fuchsia last week, this week they magically turned blue.