Best New York Restaurants for the End of Summer | Eater NY

"My summer days in Brooklyn follow a similar rhythm: coffee, run, write, eat, drink, repeat. The running, which I often do in Brooklyn Bridge Park, has gotten way more interesting since Sean Feeney and Will Unseld, the former chef de cuisine of Misi, opened Fini Patio Bar in June. Their red-sauce restaurant serves more than just their out-of-this-world pizza, in both New York and deep-ish dish square styles, but also chicken Parms, sausage-stuffed peppers, and fried calamari. Finishing a run with the goal of lunch at Fini has really changed my pacing. (If I’m running on a Thursday, sometimes I get the insane babka pizza at Bread’s at Pier 1. Either way, my pace is down from a 12-minute mile to 11 minutes and 37 seconds.) Fini has more than just food going for it; it’s got the breeze off the water, and, if you have kids, it makes a perfect spot to eat and drink in peace while they play at the piers." - Andrea Strong