Atlantic Antic - Worth it?

Basically sausage, socks and furniture. But, it's the last big Brooklyn street fair for the season, so it's worth a walk.

No mozzarepas!

like all street fairs it gets pretty generic...

There were no less than 4 mozzarepa stand that I passed today. Luckily, there was lots of other stuff that was actually good. Downtown Atlantic put out quite a spread. Bacchus had some nice merguez. I actually lost track of everything I tried (although I do remember the 2 different pork sandwiches- pulled pork from Building on Bond and roast pig sandwich from Jolie, both of which were delicious).

Iced tea lady was singing the gospel of iced tea in front of Rev Herb Daughtery's church -- their fried chicken, collards, mac n cheese are great. A couple other churches cook too, Polish and Puerto Rican, but I can't go to those as long as iced tea lady is singing.

There's always grilled corn and mozzarepas, just not one on every block. Relatively few of the NYC street fair generics, really.

Did it have more earrings and tshirts and shea butter and other stuff for sale this year? Or maybe there was just such an explosion of local food production in 2008/9, the years of the cupcake and designer onesie/hipster toddler. There was LOTS of good restaurant food, like Jolie who did several whole roasted pigs and deeelicious lamb, and the other one nearby grilling *good sausage* (not a grease truck), and La Mancha with fresh grilled sardines. It was really freakin' crowded this year. The bands are good. Not a tube sock in sight.