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By Doree Shafrir 6/30/08 12:44pm

Food Court: Clover Club Strives, A Little Too Hard, For Old-School Authenticity

The biggest problem with Clover Club, the new loungey bar on Smith Street in Boerum Hill, is that it gets Brooklyn pretension all wrong.

Everything looks like it came straight from the Jazz Age section of a Restoration Hardware catalog: tin ceiling, dark wood paneling, etched-glass light fixtures, black-and-white photos of indeterminate provenance of mustachioed Read More

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