Cocoa Bar is a coffee/chocolate shop featuring treats, snacks and drinks. It has a full selection of coffees and teas, and all its chocolates are purchased from local chocolatiers. The house specialty is a dark hot chocolate, made by melting a square of chocolate in steamed milk. Prices are slightly higher than those of an average coffee shop due to the insistence on quality ingredients. Wine is also served, with occasional tastings, and the back porch is open during pleasant weather. Free WiFi is available.
This business is conveniently located on a main street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, serving a number of its residents. It offers a colorful array of vegetable and fruit selections, from broccoli and eggplant to apples and oranges, as well as main items for cooking, such as varied spices, frozen beef and pork loins, spaghetti and pasta, among other items.
Blue Marble has been serving Prospect Heights excellent organic ice cream since 2007. One of the first artisan ice cream outfits now operating in New York/Brooklyn, Blue Marble has developed an enthusiastic and devoted following. The shop also serves espresso drinks, locally-baked pastries and frozen yogurt. The Underhill Avenue store is the group's third location and shares a building with New York City Explorers Children's Playspace.
C-Town Supermarket is part of a regional chain with locations all over the Brooklyn borough. This particular location is large and brightly lit, offering aisles upon aisles of grocery shopping for neighborhood residents, from produce to canned goods to frozen foods. C-Town accepts all major credit cards as well as EBT/food stamps. Free delivery is available for larger purchases, as well.
This South Slope restaurant serves seasonal Italian fare such as saphron tagliolini with shrimp and zucchini, a prosciutto and mozzarella panini and fettuccine with a filet mignon ragu. A weekend brunch offers items like an asparagus and gruyere cheese frittata and french toast with caramelized apples. Patrons seated in the plush booths, at the sidewalk tables or along the white marble bar also have numerous Italian wines and several draft beers to choose from.
