{"id":30676,"date":"2012-07-17T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=30676"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:06:21","slug":"brooklyn-date-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/30676\/brooklyn-date-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Adventures: The Best Brooklyn Date Ideas for Locavores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tap That<\/strong><br \/>\nAre you an alcholocavore? Then take your date straight to the source, drink with an insider\u2019s view and meet your (brew)master and your (wine)maker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Sip on cocktails made from <strong>The Shanty\u2019s<\/strong> house gins (c\/o NY Distilling Co.), then saunter over to beautiful urban winery <strong>Brooklyn Winery<\/strong> and stumble on to <strong>Brooklyn Brewery<\/strong> (check the <a title=\"permanent link to brooklyn brewery website\" href=\"http:\/\/brooklynbrewery.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site<\/a> for tour times and hours). There\u2019s usually a pizza truck outside the brewery, or you can order delivery (Best Pizza and Carmine\u2019s Original deliver in every sense of the word) to pair with your drafts. Alternatively, start at the brewery, try a flight of wines and pairings at Brooklyn Winery and grab a night cap at The Shanty. <em>The Shanty: 79 Richardson St, Greenpoint\/Williamsburg; Brooklyn Winery: 213 N. 8<sup>th<\/sup> St, Williamsburg; Brooklyn Brewery: 79 N. 11<sup>th<\/sup> St, Williamsburg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Already tapped Brooklyn Brewery a few times? Take a tasting tour of <strong>KelSo Beer Co.<\/strong> in Clinton Hill, then walk up Vanderbilt Ave. to <strong><a title=\"ici restaurant website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icirestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iCi<\/a><\/strong> to share swoon-worthy bites of organic goodness on the patio. (Stop by on a Wednesday night for the $25 prix-fixe menu, which might offer housemade ricotta cavatelli and a goat cheese cake for dessert.) KelSo tours available on Saturdays. <a href=\"mailto:info@kelsoofbrooklyn.com.\">Email<\/a> for an appointment. <em>KelSo: 529 Waverly Ave, Clinton Hill; Ortine: 622 Washington Ave, Prospect Heights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Need someone to go local with? Visit&nbsp;howaboutwe.com&nbsp;(it\u2019s free to join!) to find&nbsp;a date that\u2019s right for you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap That Are you an alcholocavore? Then take your date straight to the source, drink with an insider\u2019s view and meet your (brew)master and your (wine)maker. 1. Sip on cocktails made from The Shanty\u2019s house gins (c\/o NY Distilling Co.), then saunter over to beautiful urban winery Brooklyn Winery and stumble on to Brooklyn Brewery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":67440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[759,320,314,770,325,774,752,751,782],"tags":[109,740,17,299,298,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-30676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bar-activity-2","8":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","9":"category-dining-nightlife","10":"category-food-drink","11":"category-new-york","12":"category-restaurants-food-drink","13":"category-subway-2","14":"category-walk","15":"category-wine-food-drink","16":"tag-brewery","17":"tag-dating-adventures","18":"tag-gardens","19":"tag-locally-sourced","20":"tag-organic","21":"tag-tours"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":67440,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Romantic-Lights-350x197.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}