"Gertie is another all-day cafe, but in Williamsburg by the JMZ at Marcy Avenue (across from Emmy Squared). Eating here is what we imagine it’d be like to live in a really nicely designed makeup bag: bright pastel walls, curved ceilings, and things you want to look at and touch. Only instead of sipping from mascara tubes, you get to eat things like English muffins with cinnamon sugar on top, and gravlax with beets. The most expensive dish on the “Morning and Afternoon” menu is an excellent $15 patty melt. It gets busy in here, but it’s a counter-service set-up, so things move pretty fast." - hannah albertine