Though this week’s Cheap Eats issue showcased a few of the city’s best prix-fixe deals, and Restaurant Week is on the horizon (Day One is July 21), that didn’t stop my eyes from popping when I got notice of yet another too-good-to-be-true prix-fixe dinner. Red Hook’s Sixpoint Craft Ales is teaming with Clinton Hill’s Brown Betty Cafe to cook up a—beat this—$25 four-course meal with beer pairings and burlesque show on Thursday 17 at Prospect Heights’ pastie-twirling watering hole Barrette. Highlights include watercress and grilled-peach salad with Righteous Rye ale, shrimp-and-corn bisque with Sweet Action Ale (one of the 100 Best Things we tasted last year) and a performance from Naughtia Nice (pictured), the first-ever Miss Sweet Action. Betcha won’t see that at Eleven Madison Park. R.S.V.P. to 917-378-2454.









Hot damn! If only I’d read this just 5 days earlier…