Los Paisanos

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In Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill,  I love the remnants of old Italian Brooklyn.  Los Paisanos butchery and market on Smith Street is a mecca of this sort.  Its deli is out of control delicious (especially the capicola, hot or sweet, spiced or drunken), but the place is most exciting for its unique meats.  Dry aged beef of every imaginable cut, venison, huge slabs of pork shoulder, and hard-to-find poultry (think: poussin, partridge, fresh duck and capon).

Also try their aged cheeses (especially the Romano), fresh pastas and dried mushrooms like chantarelles and morels.

Seriously, just go to this place. 

Los Paisanos meat market, 162 Smith Street, Brooklyn. F or G train to Bergen Street.