Buttermilk Channel

Yeah: buttermilk. As in buttermilk fried chicken, with cheddar waffles. Chef Ryan Angulo, late of Stanton Social, does the whole seasonal-American-bistro thing in Carroll Gardens. Homemade pickles, duck meatloaf, rotating specials of the day as ambitious as pork-cheek schnitzel with creamy celery root and prune jam. Named for nearby stretch of Brooklyn waterfront, keeps to nabe-happy theme with salvaged pews from local church, communal table from Red Hook warehouse beams. Overall effect is clean, romantic, vaguely colonial. Perfect place to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn.