Brooklyn’s First Puppy Brunch Was Exactly as Amazing as You’d Think

Yesterday, outside of Cafe de la Esquina in Williamsburg, you might have encountered something strange: 20 people, standing in line, waiting to enter the restaurant’s outdoor seating area, before noon. People love a Brooklyn brunch, but, typically, it is not enough to lure anyone, hungover or not, out of bed and into the public sphere before 2pm. And yet, there they all were. Was this Bizarro Williamsburg—i.e. Williamsburg in 2016—the new Normal Williamsburg