This Saturday I was fortunate enough to go to Brooklyn with my house to our adviser's house for our second annual chili get together. (She also happens to be one of my favorite professors thus far in college, but those are different stories for another time.)
It's not a major event, but it's definitely great to get out of Midtown and even nicer to have a home cooked meal. Brooklyn actually reminds me of a mesh of DC/Georgetown/Bethesda in a weird nostalgic homesick way.
It's filled with brownstones, iron gates, fire escapes, churches, little restaurants and bars, disorganized traffic, trash in found lying over the sidewalks (and just about everywhere else) and few skyscrapers.
It feels like a city even though by New York terms, it's not even on the same scale as NYC. In fact, as I was walking down Flatbrush Ave, I almost felt like I was walking down South Capitol in DC. But maybe that's just me.
I didn't make too much of an effort to take photos (after all, I was a little more concerned about the food), but here's a few.
Menu:
- Appetizer: Chips and guac. (Mmm. Yay for good fats!)
- Types of chili: Southwestern chili (pictured); turkey chili; Texan chili; and vegetarian chili. (I only tried the Southwestern and turkey chili, both of which were very good.)
Enjoy reading and looking at the beautiful pictures!
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