Donde Dinner? - 1393 Second Avenue

Donde Dinner? aims to make your next dining experience an adventure. So every Friday we pick a restaurant and post its address for you. The catch is, that's all the information you get. No name, no type of cuisine, and no Googling. Before we post this week's address, here's last week's:

171 East Broadway = Rosette

In typical Donde Dinner? fashion, price, quality, and accessibility have all been taken into account. You won't be waiting at the bar for two hours with $16 cocktails and you never have to worry about a dress code. Just hop on the train, or your feet, or your bike, and head to:

1393 Second Avenue (map)

Donde Dinner? - 171 East Broadway

Donde Dinner? aims to make your next dining experience an adventure. So every Friday we pick a restaurant and post its address for you. The catch is, that's all the information you get. No name, no type of cuisine, and no Googling. Before we post this week's address, here's last week's:

163 Elizabeth Street = Little Rascal

In typical Donde Dinner? fashion, price, quality, and accessibility have all been taken into account. You won't be waiting at the bar for two hours with $16 cocktails and you never have to worry about a dress code. Just hop on the train, or your feet, or your bike, and head to:

171 East Broadway (map) 

The Things We Ate: Winter Camping in Stokes State Forest

Stokes State Forest is a two hour's drive from Brooklyn. Sure it was just January, but we hadn't been camping since California, and that doesn't bode well with us. So four of us rented a car, took 280 out of Jersey City, bought provisions at Dale's (and Kent's Liquor store) just off 206, and spent a beautiful 24 hours among tall trees and half frozen streams with nothing on our minds but maintaining a fire and what we'd eat next. Here's a look at the things we ate.

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Donde Dinner? - 163 Elizabeth Street

Donde Dinner? aims to make your next dining experience an adventure. So every Friday we pick a restaurant and post its address for you. The catch is, that's all the information you get. No name, no type of cuisine, and no Googling. But first, here's the last week's address:

651 Manhattan Avenue = El Born

This week's restaurant follows typical Donde Dinner? fashion. Price, quality, and accessibility have all been taken into account. You won't be waiting at the bar for two hours with $16 cocktails and you never have to worry about a dress code. Just hop on the train, or your feet, or your bike, and head to:

163 Elizabeth Street (map) 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brooklyn's Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club

owners ashley albert and jonathan schnappThe $2 million it takes to open a shuffleboard court/bar in Gowanus was raised in $50,000 increments on Kickstarter. Owners and friends Ashely Albert and Jonathan Schnapp considered Greenpoint too, but they fell in love with the 17,000-sqauare-foot space at 514 Union Street. And while they didn't hit their original open date in April last year, Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club is a few days from opening to the public.

The rules are easy. You'll catch on after a game or two. Just make sure you learn the lingo. You don't want your biscuit to end up in the kitchen. Avoid double soup at all times. Be careful with the hammer and don't drink the tang. Biscuits are the pucks you slide across the shuffleboard. The kitchen is the "10 OFF" zone at the base of the triangle. Land a biscuit there and it's minus 10 points. Double soup is when you end a round with two biscuits in the kitchen. The hammer is the last biscuit in each round and the tang is the stick you slide with. Any game with food-centric lingo is a winner in our eyes.

Royal Palms started a Monday night league that sold out so fast Albert and Schnapp set one up for Tuesdays as well. That means for $450 a team of four gets a 10-week run with two playoff bouts to be the best biscuit pushers in Brooklyn. Albert and Schnapp are nationally ranked competitors, by the way. Albert's 68th among females and Schnapp 82nd among men. Local winners of the winter and spring leagues will join them on the next international shuffleboard championship in Ontario this year. But that's just one reason to spend time at Royal Palms when it opens.

Draft beers are available in Ball jars from the likes of Firestone, Narragansett, Victory, and Lagunitas and food will be served from a rotating roster of food trucks. The trucks will be parked outside the venue against a gate that opens to shufflers inside. Red Hook Lobster Pound was there last night.

League play aside, RPSC charges $40/hour for games on any of the 10 standard, 39-foot courts. We got to play in last night's league and took a bunch of pictures. Already itching to go back. We'll see you there.

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Donde Dinner? - 651 Manhattan Avenue

Donde Dinner? aims to make your next dining experience an adventure. So every Friday we pick a restaurant and post its address for you. The catch is, that's all the information you get. No name, no type of cuisine, and no Googling. But first, here's the last week's address:

172 Orchard Street = Mission Cantina

This week's restaurant follows typical Donde Dinner? fashion. Price, quality, and accessibility have all been taken into account. You won't be waiting at the bar for two hours with $16 cocktails and you never have to worry about a dress code. Just hop on the train, or your feet, or your bike, and head to:

651 Manhattan Avenue (map)

Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta

Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta reminds us of Roberta's in that both serve stellar pizza and they both do so in environs that could pass as a warehouse. We didn't eat any other pizza while we were down in A-Town, but after Antico, we didn't see any reason to. Our host for the weekend picked us up from the airport and made Antico our first stop. He used to live in New York, so we knew we were in good hands. But we still live in New York. That means we're still skeptics. One bite won our hearts. Here's a look at some of what goes on at Antico Pizza Napoletana.

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Donde Dinner? - 172 Orchard Street

Donde Dinner? aims to make your next dining experience an adventure. So every Friday we pick a restaurant and post its address for you. The catch is, that's all the information you get. No name, no type of cuisine, and no Googling. But first, here's the last Donde Dinner? address:

406 East 9th Street = Whitmans

This week's restaurant follows typical Donde Dinner? fashion. Price, quality, and accessibility have all been taken into account. You won't be waiting at the bar for two hours with $16 cocktails and you never have to worry about a dress code. Just hop on the train, or your feet, or your bike, and head to:

172 Orchard Street (map)