
All you need is one good excuse to go to Red Hook. It’s just hard enough to get to (if you don’t live nearby) that wandering into the neighborhood spontaneously usually isn’t an option. Pick any of these destinations, doesn’t matter which: the cool Southern-Gothic bar Botanica, The Good Fork restaurant, Ikea (if you must), the Red Hook ballfield food vendors, or Baked NYC. For the sake of argument, let’s go with Baked: worth coming all the way out here for their Coca Cola Bundt cake, a sweet-and-salty brownie, or a peanut butter, honey, and [...]