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Actor Vinny Vella (“The Sopranos,” “Casino”) opened his new restaurant, Vinny Vella’s Pizza (374 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg), on Thursday and he told GO Brooklyn, “It will be like walking onto the set of ‘The Godfather.’” With Vella’s own movie posters lining the walls and a gigantic photo of him embedded into the floor, the actor said, “If I don’t sell any pizza, I’ll make it into a museum!”
On Nov. 13, One Girl Cookies (68 Dean St. at Boerum Place in Boerum Hill) will host a class on how to bake an apple pie. Sure it sounds nice, but for the $60 entry fee we could buy a pie and spend the rest on One Girl’s delicious pumpkin cookies.
On Nov. 15, Smith Street’s Provence en Boite (263 Smith St. at Degraw Street in Carroll Gardens) will host its annual Beaujolais nouveau celebration, featuring a $45 prix fixe meal with choices like butternut squash soup, lamb shank and the restaurant’s famous tart Tatin.
That same night, our pal Amy Bennett is hosting a Thanksgiving wine tasting at The Greene Grape (765 Fulton St. at South Oxford Street in Fort Greene). She’ll be pouring six types of American wine, and serving it alongside a bird with all the trimmings from Jive Turkey. If you like what you try, you can order a full dinner from the restaurant [441 Myrtle Ave. at Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 797-1688] including six bottles of Bennett’s favorite wines, to feed your own brood.
Meanwhile, at the corner of Driggs Avenue and Diamond Street in Greenpoint, a new brick oven pizza parlor is about to open up. If they can manage to stay open later than 11, when almost everything else in the ’hood shuts down, we think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
If you’re in Carroll Gardens and have the same cravings, try two-week-old Luna Rossa (552 Court St. at Ninth Street), an Italian spot with pasta, salads, daily specials and, of course, brick oven pies.
And up the street in Williamsburg, thirsty locals are still waiting for fabled beer garden Radegast (113 N. Third St. at Berry Street) to open. Tongues are wagging that it should happen within the next week. We’re also waiting on Miranda, a new Italian-Latin spot on Berry and North Ninth streets rumored to open any day now.
Got a hot dining tip? Drop us a line at Breaking Chews@BrooklynPaper.com.
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