Where to Eat in October

The roundup highlights new and notable restaurants across Brooklyn and beyond, including new Ethiopian, Peruvian, Thai, and two hotel restaurants. Johnny's in Williamsburg is opened by a brother-and-sister duo and continues a family-owned pollo a la brasa tradition originating in Woodside in 1973. The upscaled yet unassuming corner chifa spot reveals rotisserie chickens behind a curtained window and serves a frozen lychee pisco sour, mahogany-brown rotisserie chicken with creamy aji verde, thick-cut yuca fries, vegetarian fried rice, and lomo saltado with soy-vinegar sauce. Barbuto Brooklyn is Jonathan Waxman's new iteration located in a large 1 Hotel space in DUMBO that caters to parents and visiting family.

"Opened by a brother-and-sister duo, Johnny's belongs to a long line of family-owned pollo a la brasa restaurants that started in Woodside back in 1973. This slightly upscaled, still unassuming corner chifa spot - where, under a curtain covering half the window, you can spy on the rotisserie chickens spinning on the spit in the back room - is planted in a restaurant-dense corner of Williamsburg, but it's making a name for itself even with places"

"Sit at the bar and kick things off with a frozen lychee pisco sour that's finished with a float of Angostura bitters. Then order the chicken, its mahogany-brown, crisped skin and side of creamy aji verde is a boon for the neighborhood. Make it a combo with the yuca fries, cut real thick. There's a vegetarian fried rice that's exactly what you'd want out of your neighborhood Chinese takeout, and a lomo saltado with a soy-vinegar sauce."

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