• NoLibs brunch spot Cafe Estelle gets two bells from Craig LaBan. With only a couple exceptions, he finds everything to be pretty great. He even posits that the pancakes “may actually be among the best [he’s] tasted in the city.” Two bells, indeed!
• On the flip side, Rick Nichols visits Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar and runs into several “start-up glitches” that he thinks “ought to be history soon,” based on Bruce Cooper’s history. Worry not though: the faults like elsewhere than the pizzas, which are good.
