Noel and Geeta Brown have been frying bara and filling it with curried chickpeas since 2002, first in a narrow storefront on Nostrand Avenue and since 2018 around the corner on Fulton with seats. You order doubles at the counter and say how much pepper you want. The James Beard Foundation gave the place an America's Classics award in 2019.

4:00 PM · BrownstoneJAZZ SUNDAY AFTER BRUNCH TRIO

After

Tip-Top Bar & Grill

Long walk · 0.7 mi · 14 min walk; 2 min ride - Bedford-Stuyvesant

Walter Alston opened this as a pool hall in the early 1950s and his daughter Linda Greer runs it now. The jukebox plays seventies R&B, the Christmas lights and the birthday banner stay up all year, and a shot with a beer is five dollars. Thursday is snacky hour, when the wings and hot sausages are free.