BKLYN Magazine - Fall 2005 edition out now

dailyheights · August 2005

I just got my free shrink-wrapped copy of "BKLYN" magazine in the mail. It's a bit thinner than I remember (40 pages) and it comes with a pullout community events calendar from "Heart of Brooklyn" (apparently an umbrella promotional group for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Children's Museum, Brooklyn Museum, etc.).

So how old is this magazine? Maybe a year? I've only seen 2 or 3 issues. They are trying to charge for it now - $12 for 4 issues.

There was supposed to be an article about online Brooklyn communities... ...but apparently it didn't make the cut, at least for this issue.

Most of the PH/Slope articles are on topics that have already been covered extensively, here and elsewhere online, including an article about Ratner's Brooklyn Standard "newspaper", Habana Outpost, Amorina/Cucina Rustica, and the car condos on Union Street. However, there is a short blurb on Taro Sushi, which we've given only the briefest of mentions here on DH. I haven't heard anything about it before, and I've been meaning to check it out.

Here's the website: http://www.bklynmagazine.com/

carnivore · August 2005

Subject: Re: "BKLYN" Magazine - Fall 2005 edition out now

dailyheights wrote: However, there is a short blurb on Taro Sushi, which we've given only the briefest of mentions here on DH. I haven't heard anything about it before, and I've been meaning to check it out.

Funny you should mention it- someone just recommended that place to me this weekend. I've been meaning to check it out too.

daniel · August 2005

Not being a fish-eater, my comments on Taro Sushi can only be taken so far. I didn't really like it, as the vegetarian options were just the standard ones you see everywhere - avocado, cucumber, maybe oshinko. My girlfriend and another couple I know, who all eat fish, think it's the best local sushi place. The other couple will travel up here from Sunset Park just to eat there.

I prefer Kiku, on 5th Ave, as they've got an extensive selection of vegetarian fish-free rolls, with a lot of options that I've never seen anywhere else. Everything I've tried there has been excellent. Apparently, there is also a Kiku on 7th Ave, but I've never been. Same owners, according to a chowhound thread.

stacey · August 2005

Its funny because I received my copy also and as I was reading it it felt like some of the topics were picked up from DH. 8)

sterlingguy · August 2005

Subject: Kiku... Kee Koo...

My beloved and I used to live on 7th Ave. at Windsor (which used to be South Slope or Windsor Terrace, became Park Terrace and is now Park Slope).

Anyways, we were so excited when Kiku opened their first take-out sushi storefront on 7th and 15th. It wasn't amazing, but it was close and clean and yummy. We especially loved the name, which we would sing to each other like cooing doves: kee koo... kee koo... My vote will always be Kiku.

One more random aside: with this posting, I have moved from Newbie to Regular -- woo hoo! Man, I am so IN with this hipster crowd now! Yesss.

BKLYN Magazine - Fall 2005 edition out now

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