Great Press 195 mention from overseas!

Just got word from my good friend Bobby in London that we were mentioned in the famous paper 'The Guardian." The British author Annabelle Thorpe visits the favorite neighborhood haunts of five clued-up locals for a fascinating new take on a city she thought she knew. Read below for an excerpt or click here for the full article:

Hesu Coue-Wilson

Lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She is a journalist and has two children, Helena, seven, and Clementine, three.

Hesu Coue-Wilson at Papbubble

The best place to head for on a Saturday morning is the Brooklyn Farmers' Market at Grand Army Plaza; get ridiculously cheap and fresh oysters from the fish folk who come straight from Montauk with the morning's catch.

Press 195 (195 Fifth Avenue; press195.com) is a great spot for lunch (try the squash with chipotle chilli) and ideal for stoking up before a walk through Prospect Park. Walk far enough and you can find sections that feel lost and bucolic and very different from Central Park, where you can never really forget you are in the middle of a vast city. If you fancy a bike ride, it's a great wheel from Grand Army Plaza to Coney Island.

If I'm heading into Manhattan for lunch, Chinatown is always a good bet; Jing Fong (20 Elizabeth St) looks and sounds like a noisy airport lounge but the food is incredible. After that, head to Papabubble (380a Broome St; papabubble.com); it's a candy store where they pound, stretch and cool the candy in front of your eyes.