6 Perfect Hours in Red Hook

with a special guest and a new favorite restaurant??

Since the start of summer, I have been scheming a full day in Red Hook. While it isn’t the most convenient, the waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood is home to travel-worthy destinations: Ikea, Hometown Bar-B-Que, Red Hook Lobster Pound—everywhere you could hope to be in the summer.

The key was finding the right person to spend an extended period of time wi…