Black Flamingo

We ordered every vegan option on the menu and every single dish was incredible. Black flamingo has a great vibe, amazing cocktails, and in my opinion, the best vegan food in Brooklyn.

Incredible NON MEAT FOOD!!! All the vegan food can be made vegetarian. HOW GREAT IS THAT?! Like… _​soooooo_​awesome amazing + they’re all super sweet! Thanks to Deblina, Eric and Josh all gave us a warm welcome and gave us the best service and the perfect food and drinks.
And Lauren the glove is also a part of this night.

They really need to do something about the dirty mop smell. The cocktails were all too syrupy (I tried three). Other than that, great food and ambiance. Their pitfalls are so easy to fix! I hope they read this, as I look forward to giving the the 5 they deserve.

On the ground floor, Black Flamingo offers an elegant and serene experience that intends to impress. This is an excellent date spot (especially, but not only for vegetarians) or for quiet conversation.
But be warned, it is expensive! Every dish is 25 to 100 percent more than what you’d expect from elsewhere on Grand Street. You’re not paying for the food, my girlfriend pointed out, but the beautiful dining area (with remarkably spacious seating) and impeccable service.
So be it, I will keep Black Flamingo for special occasions.

It’s not everyday you’re hanging out with the *right* people and they show you the *right* places, but last night was one of those nights.
You know you’re walking around Williamsburg on a Sunday night, you know like people do. And it’s looking dead outside, and you’re thinking man everything is buckled down for the night and nobody is going anywhere. And besides it’s Sunday night and…
Then you walk into Black Flamingo. At you know midnight because that’s where you should be on a school night. And you amble down to the basement, and Tim Sweeney is DJing & he’s just killin it! I mean seriously raising the roof.
By 1am it is wall-​to-​wall saturday-​night packed. Did I mention it was Sunday night?
Well if you’re looking for such debauchery, look no further. At the bar you’ll find two sixpoints, plus presidante, budweiser & a couple others, plus a long list of cocktails to suit your palate.
Now looking at the Unilocal page in the light of day I find they also have vegetarian food fare, and you an sure as heck bet I’m going back to get down & dirty with that!

If you live in, around or planning to visit Brooklyn, Black Flamingo is a MUST! Kudos to Chef Soozee for her exquisite talent and passion! This has been one fine meal :)

What an interesting and fun new place in the neighborhood. I am lactose intolerant and I love vegan food, so I was very excited to try the tacos. The Sgt. Pepper stole the show for me, the creamy sauce, the mushrooms and the spice were a match made in heaven. They also made me a vegan version of the hearts of palm taco and it was fabulous. All these years I have been missing a balanced taco because I can’t have cheese or sour cream — but now I can have well executed and perfectly balanced tacos!
My friend and I sat at the bar for happy hour, and our champagne glasses were always filled and the bartenders were delightful.
Obsessed.

The food is excellent. The cocktails are interesting and tasty. Now go downstairs and enjoy world class djs playing on a vintage sound system. Perfect spot for a date.

Food only:
Pretty good vegetarian Mexican restaurant on the ground /​top floor. The tacos you want are the Savory Mushroom tacos. All things here with mushrooms were highlights of the meal (tacos quesadillas). Happy hour is 5 till 8 and brings drafts from $ 7 to $ 3. I think.
It’s by all accounts a really cool bar/​nighttime scene around here — worth a trip for either reason.

Best new addition to the hood in a while. great happy hour with great taco options even for meat lovers. the mushroom quesadilla was amazing! friendly staff and nice décor.

An absolute great experience. Innovative and well executed recipes, cocktails, and desserts.
The staff is friendly. The environment is cozy, chill, upscale with modest pricing. Invite friends to hangout downstairs and listen to good beats. Black flamingo had me waking up the next morning with the first thought of wanting their tacos again! I will definitely revisit as soon as I can — loved it!

This vegan found his heaven. An all vegetarian menu (mostly vegan with everything else vegan adaptable) and incredible cocktails. The FOOD is some of the best small plates stuff I’ve had. All of the tacos we ordered were delicious and the mushroom quesadilla was incredible! I begged the waitstaff to ask the chef to come out to meet her. She did. Her name is Susie and she could not have been more humble. The décor is all champagne and cocaine but really the place has a chill and inviting vibe. I’m told there is a club downstairs. Go!

This is a great new addition to Williamsburg. It has excellent ambiance, and a comfortable sort of Cold War-​era Cuban vibe. It’s not suffering from the generic «rustic» theme that most of the current estabishments in Brooklyn have adopted, which is a relief.
The food and house cocktails were equally well-​excecuted. The price was a bit steep in proportion to the serving size, but taste and presentation were both top notch. My partner and I ordered several of the tacos, and a mushroom quesadilla, all of which featured fusions of other cuisines such as Korean. The Bibimbap taco was a highlight, but each item tasted unique and delicious. The staff was also very down-​to-​Earth and accomodated a requested adjustment to the Cachaça cocktail with pleasing results.
We did not venture into the basement on this visit, but on initial impressions, the restaurant is one that I would thoroughly recommend — especially considering that it is one of only a handful of exclusively vegetarian/​vegan restaurants in the neighborhood.

Best tacos I ever had. The Bibimbap one not only looks amazing but actually does taste of bibimbap! They also have plenty of vegan options, the place looks really classy and music is great (on early eve they were playing some free jazz that sounded lovely).

Black Flamingo is a cool little basement club below a vegetarian restaurant tucked away by the Williamsburg bridge (only a few blocks from where yours truly resides). Not a place you’d just stumble in.
The room was pretty dark so you couldn’t really see anyone well. A bit too crowded when I arrived around 12:30 on Thursday night. Sound was solid, but probably only because the acoustics were good in the room which is essentially just a box.
The Dj spun some disco, funk type music which I liked a lot. The crowd was good but the vibe was a bit weird in that you couldn’t actually see the DJ in the corner of the room but everyone was still awkwardly facing him, which meant staring at eachother’s backs. Also, compared to deep house for example, I think disco warrants dancing with your peers a bit more as opposed to zoning out by yourself.
Anyway, music was good, i would come back and check it out another night for sure.

What can I say… I’m a carnivore, when I hear vegetarian I run in the opposite direction. Imagine my surprise when I ate at the Black Flamingo.
The ceviche was delicious, I couldn’t even tell that it was vegetarian! The peach salad was good too.

This bar/​club really doesn’t look like much from the outside. The inside though is pretty sleek. The upstairs area is a nice place to get a quiet cocktail while the downstairs area is a packed dance floor. This place apparently just opened a month or two ago but is already teeming with hipsters.

Great Veggie Meal, had the oyster mushroom ceviche, one of the charcuterie things, the jack fruit crab cake, one of the salads (forget which one it was, but it had pecans in it) and the tiramisu for dessert. Everything was beyond expectations. Not sure about the cocktails as I didn’t have any, was just drinking stella all night.
Went down stairs after to check out the bar and it was a blast. GREAT NIGHT.

Just had the most amazing dinner at Black Flamingo. The ambiance is sleek and sexy. The food was so original and consistently delicious. It’s also all vegetarian with gluten free options.
Warm olives are yum! As are Peppadew stuffed with feta and roasted peanuts. The steamed plantain with queso fresco and lime-​jalepeno crema was fabulous. Oyster-​mushroom cervihe was another winner! With an additional bar and dance space on the lower level, this is an ideal spot for a private party as well as a great place to eat and drink in the heart of Williamsburg.

So happy. Finally Mandy + Wolf+Lamb and Soul Clap guys (well at least some of them), have brought an amazing place to dance, drink (and now eat) to Wburg.
I have not tried the food yet, but if they put half as much passion into the food as the do music (and the décor) I’m sure it will be awesome.
I love the lack of signage. And I hope it stays that way. Fingers crossed.
Can’t hear anything outside the venue so I suspect they put some cash into sound proofing.
Looks like they prepared for winter too with all the heaters outside.