Food in Navy Yard

The Front Street pizzeria under the Brooklyn Bridge that took the Grimaldi's name when Patsy Grimaldi sold it, and the original of what is now a chain across several states. Coal oven, whole pies only, with no slices. It takes no reservations, and the line forms on the sidewalk outside. The hours are wider than its neighbor Juliana's, running to 11pm every night and midnight on weekends.

Mon to Thu, 11am to 11pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to midnight. Sun, 11am to 11pm

Patsy Grimaldi came out of retirement in 2012 and opened Juliana's in the Old Fulton Street space where he had run Grimaldi's for decades, naming it after his mother. Coal oven, whole pies only, no slices and no reservations. The kitchen shuts between 3:15 and 4 in the afternoon, and the line outside moves because the oven turns a pie in minutes.

Every day, 11:30am to 3:15pm and 4pm to 9pm

The ground floor of Building 77 inside the Navy Yard, turned into a 40,000 square foot food hall that anyone can walk into from Flushing Avenue. Russ & Daughters anchors it with an appetizing counter and its production bakery. Jalapa Jar and She Wolf Bakery have counters in there too. It was built for the people who work in the Yard and it is priced and paced for them.

Counters mostly run weekday daytime hours. Russ & Daughters is open daily, 8am to 4pm

A small restaurant on a cobbled stretch of Hudson Avenue in Vinegar Hill, open since 2008, with a wood-burning oven, a pressed-tin ceiling and a garden out the back. The cast-iron chicken and the red wattle pork chop have been on the menu for most of that time and the rest changes. It takes bookings but keeps seats at the bar for walk-ins, which on a weeknight is the easier way in.

Mon to Thu, 5:30pm to 9:30pm. Fri, 5:30pm to 10pm. Sat, 10am to 3pm and 5:30pm to 10pm. Sun, 10am to 3pm and 5:30pm to 9:30pm