Eat Records

Eat Records (aka "Eat")
124 Meserole Brooklyn,
New York 718-389-8083
http://www.eatrecords.com

Good chili, thickly sliced bread, nice board games, bad local art...sounds like most small owner run cafes, but this one sells used records, and has a listening station. The guys that work here tend to smell like they need a nap and a shower. The backyard is great for smoking a cigarette or eating a bagel under the rhododendron tree. Weekend brunches are made by local quasi chefs invited to create various kinds of stuffed omlettes, strawberry buckwheat pancakes, and various flavors of polish breakfast meat (bacon, keilbasi) on the side. Coffee served is a New York brand called MUD. MUD requests that all it's coffee be served with steamed milk, so when you order a coffee at "Eat" it automatically comes with steamed milk. Eat has a small group of local guys that go there and hang out ALL DAY. One of the Eat locals used to work with me at Beans and Barley Restaurant in Milwaukee. He was my busboy, I was the waitress. Small world. Eat also has prefix dinners, they usually run about $15 plate, and include wine and at least three courses, again made by a random local chef. For the prefix nights, Eat sticks all their tables together, throws a white sheet over them, and everyone eats together family style. The music is usually pleasurable, and if you find a record you like, they'll play it for you.

http://www.eatrecords.com