Williamsburg. It feels like a small town to me too.

Keith Wagstaff of The Feedbag, "The neighborhood itself feels kind of like a small town; everybody seems to know everybody and people often don’t feel the need to leave for Manhattan to socialize. In this faux-small town we see a utopian vision for America’s actual small towns and suburbs: small restaurants, run by owners who live nearby and seem to know all of their patrons, churning out very competent, and even sometimes excellent, contemporary American cuisine with low price points and local ingredients. It’s our European fantasy, to live like the French (or how we collectively imagine the French live) with delicious neighborhood bistros in every quaint town with nary a McDonald’s or Applebee’s in sight. It is a charming neighborhood to eat in, and despite lacking the ethnic diversity or Thomas Keller-level culinary mastery of some other neighborhoods’ dining scenes, it is chock full of unique restaurants with familiar faces and simple, well-executed, local cuisine." See entire post here.