FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN
Miss Ada
Tomer Blechman's modern Israeli corner room — Fort Greene's definitive date restaurant.
Miss Ada — say it fast and you hear 'misada,' Hebrew for restaurant — is Israeli-born chef Tomer Blechman's corner room on DeKalb Avenue, open since 2017 and booked steadily ever since. The cooking is modern Israeli through a Greenmarket lens: silken hummus, labneh under good olive oil, vegetables off the grill that convert committed carnivores.
The room runs warm and close, with bar seats and a sidewalk café absorbing the walk-ins the Resy books can't. It is Fort Greene's definitive date restaurant precisely because it never acts like one — the food does the romancing. Weekend brunch is the same kitchen at a gentler volume.
Editor’s tip
Build the meal from the vegetable side of the menu — it's where this kitchen quietly shows off.
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