TONY RECOMMENDS

Drinks Mr. Pennebaker prefers to drop his hard-earned cash on quality suds—in other words, cask ales, which contain live yeast cultures and natural carbonation. Luckily for Kit (but not so for his liver), this weekend Cobble Hill’s The Brazen Head (228 Atlantic Ave between Boerum Pl and Court St, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; 718-488-0430, brazenheadbrooklyn.com. Pints $6, half-pints $4) is holding one of its too-infrequent cask-ale festivals. From noon on Friday to 2am Sunday night, the bar will have between 20 and 30 casks in-house and up to 11 tapped at any given time.

Dinner This connoisseur says he’s been searching for the perfect bowl of Japanese ramen, so we recommend he line his stomach in his home neighborhood, the East Village, before heading out to Brooklyn. The tonkatsu at Village Yokocho (8 Stuyvesant St between Second and Third Aves, 212-598-3041), which is cooked for three to four days, costs just $7. Tokyo-based chain Ramen Setagaya (141 First Ave between 9th St and St. Marks Pl, 212-529-2740) serves a good bowl of salty broth for $9.50, and Minca Ramen Factory (536 E 5th St between Aves A and B, 212-505-8001) goes the thicker shoyu route, for $8.50. However, to save the most money for ale, he should just pop into Cobble Hill’s Hibino (333 Henry St at Pacific St, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; 718-260-8052), for a three-buck bowl of the miso soup du jour. Recent variations have included grilled scallion, daikon radish, and tofu and sugar peas.

TOTAL COST $28.00