7th Street to 2oth Street
New York Methodist Hospital
When you live in Park Slope, the park is always calling to you, but for now make your way back over to 7th Avenue, dodging the ambulances lined up along 6th Street near the New York Methodist Hospital.
Some of Park Slope’s best known restaurants are south of 6th Street, so if you’re feeling peckish, it’s a good time for a snack. At the corner of 7th Avenue and 7th Street, Purity Diner is a local favorite for traditional diner food. A few blocks down, there’s 7th Avenue Donuts and Luncheonette, which is open 24 hours but is especially popular for a no-frills weekend brunch.
At 7th Avenue and 10th Street, the Vietnamese sandwich shop Hanco’s has the vibe of a neighborhood coffee shop. Teenagers stop in after school for snacks and bubble tea, and the tables are filled with parents and kids enjoying a banh mi or an order of summer rolls. It’s a very laid-back spot to stop for an inexpensive, super-delicious lunch.
Hanco’s
In the same block, old school sporting goods store Sport Prospect sells every Brooklyn tee you could ever imagine.
Sport Prospect
Moving south, the food gets a bit more upscale. Talde, on the corner of 7th Avenue and 11th Street, is the genre-bending Asian-New American restaurant from former “Top Chef” contestant Dale Talde, who also has a gastropub down the hill on 5th Avenue called Pork Slope. Talde has excellent cocktails and creative food and is always packed.
A few doors down, Brookvin is a wine bar serving small bites, with a lovely back patio — a perfect spot in the sunshine. Just around the corner on 11th, Applewood serves farm-to-table fare in a small but sweet dining room.
Talde
Down on 14th Street, Cafe Steinhof serves Austrian food, German beer, and a popular brunch menu. A block away, Thistle Hill Tavern is a perfect date night spot.
Café Steinhof
Once you get to 15th Street, 7th Avenue starts to change — the buildings are a little shorter, the brownstones give way to townhouses with pastel vinyl siding, and you can see the hills of Green-Wood Cemetery rising south of 20th Street. Around the overpass that goes over the Prospect Expressway there are a few little parks tucked in to corners, but if you continue toward the 19th Street there’s a much better spot to stop and relax after your walk along 7th Avenue.
Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
Greenwood Park is a massive beer garden with dozens of brews on tap and in bottles, bocce courts, and a huge outdoor seating area. It’s surrounded by a wall built from shipping pallets, designed to keep the beer hall noise to a minimum for the neighbors. This is the ideal spot to grab a table, order some beers and a wurst platter and reflect on life in the Slope.
Greenwood Park
For more local Brooklyn flavor, check out our guides to Atlantic Avenue, Court Street, Smith Street, Bedford Avenue, and 5th Avenue.
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