A&A Bake & Doubles Shop

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A&A Bake & Doubles Shop
A&A Bake & Doubles Shop
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StateNew York
CountryUnited States

A&A Bake & Doubles Shop is a Caribbean restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. [1] Owned by Trinidadian immigrants Noel and Geeta Brown, it opened on Nostrand Avenue [2] [3] before moving around the corner to a bigger location on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Recognition

The shop was reviewed by ex- Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema in 2018. [4] In 2019 it was one of the five winners of a James Beard Foundation's American Classics Award. [5]

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References

  1. Smerd, Jeremy (September 19, 2017). "Longtime business owners see an upside to gentrification". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. Flock, Elizabeth (2014-10-25). "A Double Dose of Trinidad". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. "Bed-Stuy Historic District walking tour". New York Daily News . 2017-08-09. Archived from the original on 2019-07-05.
  4. Sietsema, Robert (2018-05-10). "A Legendary Caribbean Snack Shop Ups the Ante — and Other Cheap Eats". Eater New York. Vox Media. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  5. Steussy, Lauren (2019-05-07). "James Beard Awards 2019 announced: NYC no longer the culinary capital". New York Post. NYP Holdings Inc. Retrieved 12 May 2019.

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