Rhiannon Giddens

Before

short ride recommended · 5 min - Prospect Lefferts Gardens

A third-generation Guyanese bakery that has been on this stretch of Nostrand Avenue for more than sixty years, directly across from Bar Bayeux. Pine tarts, currant rolls, cheese straws and black cake go across the counter in a paper bag, and there is a small cafe next door at 1107 if you want to sit with a coffee. Everything is priced in single dollars and the line moves at the speed of the register.

After

short ride recommended · 3 min - Flatbush

A florist at the front of the storefront and a bar behind it, on the Cortelyou Road strip west of Kings Theatre. The back garden is the reason to come and it gets enclosed and heated once it turns cold, so it works in January as well as July. Seventy-odd whiskeys on the shelf, craft beer on tap, and bar staff who do not make a performance of either.