Restaurants like Stone Park Cafe aren’t often written about. Aside from a two-star New York Times review from 2005 and a whole bunch of chatter on Yelp, you won't find much out there about this Park Slope staple. Such is the case with a lot of neighborhood restaurants that opened in the middle of the last decade, before the foodbloggerazzi existed to break news about plywood going up on the sandwich place down the street. Could it be a new Momofuku Milk bar? Nope it's a nail salon, now go get a real job.

The good news is that lack of recent internet recognition doesn't seen to matter much for Stone Park Cafe. Try visiting for brunch any time after 11:00am, and you will probably have the opportunity to meet every single person that lives in Park Slope. Waits can get ridiculous, but that's because they're serving the best brunch in the 'hood, by far. We've been several times, almost solely for the short rib hash and the hangtown fry - a plate of eggs and bacon with fried oysters. It doesn't get much more Infatuation friendly than that. Dinner is always solid as well, and the fact that Stone Park cafe has been consistently packing them in for the last eight years straight should tell you that the place is nothing if not incredibly consistent. Our only complaints here have been about service, mostly just because they often seem overwhelmed by the crowds during brunch. I suppose that goes with the territory when you're serving the whole neighborhood at once.