Blue Ribbon Beer Garden

The Bromberg brothers deliver an alfresco adult playground—offering brews, BBQ and Ping-Pong—with this 60-seat beer garden. The wood-paneled drinking spot—located on a second-floor terrace overlooking Allen Street—dishes up Southern comfort food, along with nostalgia-inducing games. Throw back beers both local (Brooklyn Brewery’s Sorachi Ace) and foreign (Hitachino White Ale) or pour carafes of wine between rounds of Ping-Pong and board games (Scrabble, Monopoly, Operation). Underneath round paper lanterns and dangling feather ornaments, dig into plates of smoky barbecue (chicken, baby back ribs) and sides such as black-eyed pea salad and corn bread.