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56 | park slope <strong>Reader</strong><br />
Rediscovering Runner and Stone<br />
content sitting on their own at the bar. In a way,<br />
Runner & Stone is also part industrial, part trendy.<br />
There is somebody in the bakery at all hours of<br />
the day, a small room that is mostly ovens. These<br />
bakers and their apprentices prepare bread to be<br />
packaged and sold to places like The <strong>Park</strong> <strong>Slope</strong><br />
Food Co-Op, while also kneading dough that<br />
will become their signature Bolzano miche, or a<br />
Chef Chris Pizzulli and Head Baker Peter Endriss<br />
baguette, sliced and served onsite with a creamy<br />
herb-infused chicken liver pate.<br />
In the candlelit dining room, surf rock plays<br />
in the background as the dinner crowd enjoys<br />
a selection of pastas, all made in-house from<br />
scratch, paired with wine from a mostly Italian<br />
selection. Unbeknownst to some, Runner & Stone<br />
also serves its own original cocktails, often infused<br />
with syrups from the lavender, dandelion, and<br />
rosemary grown in their small rooftop garden.<br />
From the dining room, where the mood is relaxed<br />
and slow, it’d be impossible to tell that the<br />
nighttime baker hasn’t even started his day’s<br />
work.<br />
The dining room at Runner & Stone looks like<br />
many others in Brooklyn, it’s a little dim, there’s<br />
exposed brick, and wine bottles line one wall<br />
from floor to ceiling. But if one looks a little<br />
closer, on the wall near the entrance, the exposed<br />
brick isn’t really brick at all. Rather, the wall<br />
is made from the first 1,000 bags of flour that<br />
the restaurant used, which were then filled with<br />
concrete. They look pillow-like and many first<br />
time visitors, including myself, feel inclined to
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