Brookinks: Thursday Focus on Food Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of news stories, blog items and images. On Thursday we focus on Brooklyn restaurants. (Today, with a nod to yesterday's Upper East Side tragedy, which is heavily covered elsewhere.)

A Few Plane Crash Items:

• Corridor Where Recreational Pilots Fear to Go [NYT]
• Black Day on the Upper East Side [NYDN]
• Yanks in Shock After Crash [NYPost]
• Cory Lidle, Thurmon Munson and 9/11 [Bay Ridge Blog]
  

Eat:

• Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record]
• Considering Court Street's California Taqueria [Clean Plate Club]
• Sweet Melissa in Cobble Hill [lovescool]
• Bococa Food and Wine Tasting on Saturday [423 Smith]
• Daily News Covers Kosher Steak House [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
• Bushwick's Tortilleria Los Hermanos [NYT]
• Freakonomics: Christie's Chicken Patty Edition [Daily Heights]
• Impending Death of Williamsburg's Monkey Town [Monkey Town via Eater]
• Flatbush Farm [Eating for Brooklyn]
• Flatbush Farm's Haute Barnyard [New York]
  

Read:

• City Policy Backfiring in Sunset Park [NYT via Sunset Parker]
• Beautiful, But Sinister [Brit in Brooklyn]
• Green-Wood Cemetery Birding Bug [Englishman in New York]
• 10 Things We Love About Park Slope [Brooklyn Record]
• Park Circle Apartments Already on Market [Brownstoner]
• Haunted House of the Day [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Greedy Developers: Bad for Brooklyn [DWIJR: Brooklyn Edition]
• The Biggest Weekend in Dumbo [Dumbo NYC]
• Dyker Heights Uproar Over Sanitation Tix [NYDN]
• Sunset Park Boxing Legend to Be Honored [Sunset Parker]
• Atlantic Yards Hearing Transcript, Speaker List Available [AYR]
• Week Dedicated to Preserving Brooklyn: DDDB's Walkathon Week [Daily Gotham]
  

(Photo courtesy of jscandinaro on flickr)