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The J alternation base at Flushing Ave. hits at the south end of Graham Ave., a active Williamsburg arcade artery with abounding new restaurants and bars. They’re great, but some of the best aliment in the breadth still comes from old favorites like these.
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International treats
When Alma Lopez and her bedmate Juan Moa opened Princesa Bakery eight years ago, they were already architecture on 45 years of tradition. Up until their renovation, the atom had been the admired Cuban and Spanish-Caribbean bakery alleged El Carousel.
Lopez and Moa are both from Mexico, but instead of starting over on their menu, they added to it. Princesa barter today can accept from amazon and ice chrism cakes; the Puerto Rican pudding alleged tembleque; Dominican cakes alleged bizcocho; or Mexican tres leches block and torta sandwich rolls. There’s additionally flan and bendable aliment alleged pan de agua, eaten by about everyone.
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["1164"]Most sweets are amid $1.50 and $2.50, and aggregate is done in-house. “Everything we advertise here, we make,” says Lopez. That includes a diffuse agenda of hot aliment that you eat at a scattering of comfortable booths in the advanced of the shop. The admired is the still the $6.50 Cuban sandwich, says Lopez, but tacos ($2.75) and Mexican breakfasts like chilaquiles (fried blah tortillas decrepit in salsa, $8) are communicable up.
Princesa Bakery: 94 Graham Ave., at Seigel St., Brooklyn; (718) 782-3822
Seasonal sweets
Daffodils aren’t the alone things that appearance up with the year’s aboriginal balmy days. Last anniversary apparent the 2017 acknowledgment of Mi Carro de Piragua y de Yun Yun, the 15-year-old Dominican snow cone barrow run by Ricardo Abril. The continued name means, “My barrow of piragua and yun yun” — piragua actuality the Puerto Rican name for snow cones, and yun yun a Dominican one.
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Vegan desserts will allure you abreast this Brooklyn J alternation stop
When the acclimate is balmy and dry, Abril freezes big circuit of ablaze clear ice in an cloistral cooler, again scrapes it into a creamy bank in a artificial cup with a ablaze apparatus accepted in Spanish as a raspador de hielo. The ices are $1 to $4, depending on cup size. They’re topped off with a cascade of one of 12 flavors like ablaze blueberry and birthmark — for kids, says Abril — or added acceptable bootleg syrups like accustomed lime, attic and tamarind.
Mi Carro de Piragua y de Yun Yun: Northwest bend of Graham Ave. and Moore St.
Meats and more
["449.11"]There are boner shops, and again there’s Anibal Meat Market, a adjacency destination for acceptable Puerto Rican specialties aback 1968.
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Today the abundance is abundantly run by Nick Santiago, whose asperse Marcial Torres and ancestor Angelo took it over from Anibal Nieves decades ago aback he went aback to Puerto Rico. “They brought me actuality aback I wasn’t behaving,” Santiago says of his childhood, “and I’m still here.”
In the aboriginal days, the bazaar focused on staples like coils of the annatto-tinged Puerto Rican sausages alleged longaniza ($5.99 per pound, candied or hot). Prepared foods snuck in by the ‘80s, with the accession of the slow-cooked buzz pork accept alleged pernil ($8 a pound). Its address — above brittle bark as brittle as a cracker — is the adobo rub, a mix of paprika, oregano, garlic, alkali and pepper. (You can buy that and sofrito — a mix of beginning herbs and candied chilies alleged ajicito — by the tub here.)
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Today, there are three serve-yourself stations, including one with algid salads like marinated octopus ($10 a pound); one with feel foods like skewers ($3) broken with absurd craven and brittle plantains; and a beef table with hot foods like the claret pudding alleged morcilla ($6 per pound).
Anibal Meat Market: 103 Moore St., abreast Humboldt St., Brooklyn; (718) 384-8355
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