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Private Event Catering in Williamsburg: How to Plan a Party Your Guests Will Actually Remember
The guest list is growing and the date is set. Here is how to plan catering, the room and the fun part without running the whole party yourself.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 306 min read


Birthday Brunch in Williamsburg: How to Plan a Sunday Celebration Everyone Shows Up For
Night birthdays lose half the guest list. A Sunday birthday brunch gets everyone in one room, in daylight, with bottomless mimosas.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 306 min read


First Time on a Mechanical Bull? What to Expect at Viva Toro in Brooklyn
Everybody remembers their first time on a mechanical bull, mostly because everybody else in the room remembers it too. Here is what to expect.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 306 min read


Dinner and Dancing in Williamsburg: One Reservation, the Whole Night
Most nights out come in two parts and lose half the group in between. Here is how to keep dinner and dancing under one roof.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 306 min read


Halloween Lands on a Saturday This Year. Plan Accordingly.
October 31, 2026 falls on a Saturday. Every few years this happens and the whole city recalibrates, because a Saturday Halloween is a different animal than a Tuesday one. A Tuesday Halloween is a costume you wear for two hours and a night that ends by eleven. A Saturday Halloween is a full weekend. People commit, plans get made in September, and the rooms worth going to are spoken for long before the last week of October. Viva Toro is a Mexican restaurant in Williamsburg that
Inly Alvarez
Sep 306 min read


Planning Large Group Dining in Williamsburg? Start With the Table That Seats Everyone.
Planning dinner for a group should not require seventeen screenshots, three backup restaurants and a spreadsheet. Here is how to keep the whole night at one Williamsburg address.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 236 min read


Craving Huevos Rancheros in Williamsburg? Here’s What Makes This Brunch Worth Getting Up For
Corn tortillas, two fried eggs, red salsa, rice and refried beans. Here is what is actually in Viva Toro's Huevos Rancheros and what comes with Sunday brunch.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 234 min read


Holiday Corporate Events in Williamsburg: Give the Team a Party They’ll Actually Talk About
Your team has sat through enough predictable company dinners. Give them good food, cocktails, music, and a night that feels like an actual celebration.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 145 min read


Late-Night Dining in Williamsburg: Why Your Night Shouldn’t End When Dinner Does
Some restaurants give you dinner. Some bars give you a late night. Viva Toro is where one turns into the other without making your group start over somewhere else.
Inly Alvarez
Sep 105 min read


What Makes a Mexican Restaurant in Williamsburg Worth the Trip
Williamsburg is not short on places to eat. What it is short on is rooms where the food holds up after 10 PM, and that is a narrower list than the neighborhood's restaurant count suggests. Viva Toro has been working that gap at 987 Grand St since the early 2000s, running a full kitchen on the same nights the DJ is going. If you are deciding on a Mexican restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this week, the useful question is not which one has the best tacos. It is which one is
Inly Alvarez
Aug 206 min read


Where to Watch Baseball in Williamsburg This Fall
October Baseball Is Better With a Crowd There is a specific kind of quiet in watching a nine-inning elimination game alone. You get through the fourth, the tension has nowhere to go, and by the seventh you are pacing your own apartment talking to a television that cannot hear you. Baseball is the sport that most needs other people in the room. One big at-bat with forty strangers reacting at once does something no home setup can reproduce. Viva Toro is a Mexican restaurant and
Inly Alvarez
Aug 176 min read


Your Birthday in Williamsburg Deserves More Than a Dinner Reservation
Viva Toro is the best Mexican restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the second half of that night. Dinner, drinks, a DJ, bottle service, and the only mechanical bull in the neighborhood, all in one room at 987 Grand St. Nobody has to coordinate a second location at 10pm while half the group quietly heads home
Inly Alvarez
Aug 146 min read


Where to Watch Football in Williamsburg Without Fighting for a Seat
You know the Sunday. You leave the apartment at 12:30 feeling good about it. By 12:47 you are standing near the coat rack, watching the opening drive from a bad angle, hoping something opens up before halftime. All you want to do is watch football in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Viva Toro is a Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn that has spent years learning how to hold a room where everybody wants something a little different. Somebody came for the game. Somebody came for brunch. Some
Inly Alvarez
Aug 106 min read


Bachelorette Party Venue Williamsburg | Viva Toro
Viva Toro is Williamsburg's top bachelorette party venue, with the mechanical bull, bottle service, and a night built for celebrating.
Inly Alvarez
Jul 156 min read


What’s The Best Summer Brunch in Williamsburg | Viva Toro
Viva Toro's summer brunch brings bottomless mimosas, sangria, a live DJ, and the mechanical bull together for Williamsburg's liveliest weekend brunch.
Inly Alvarez
Jul 76 min read


World Cup Final Watch Party in Williamsburg | Viva Toro
The World Cup Final lands July 19 at MetLife Stadium, and Viva Toro is Williamsburg's headquarters for the biggest watch party of the summer.
Inly Alvarez
Jul 66 min read


Brazil World Cup Watch Party Williamsburg | Viva Toro
Catch Brazil's Round of 16 match at Viva Toro, Williamsburg's top spot for a World Cup watch party with big screens, food, and drinks.
Inly Alvarez
Jul 36 min read


What to Do in Williamsburg This Summer
If you are looking for what to do in Williamsburg this summer that goes beyond another rooftop with the same playlist, here is the full picture: the neighborhood's best free outdoor events, a 130-year-old street festival, and Viva Toro at 987 Grand St for brunch, the World Cup, the mechanical bull, and late nights with a real DJ.
Inly Alvarez
Jun 124 min read


The Original Mechanical Bull Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg has no shortage of bars. But Viva Toro is the original mechanical bull bar Williamsburg Brooklyn has had, and the experience here is nothing like what you will find anywhere else in the neighborhood.
Inly Alvarez
Jun 106 min read


Where Can You Celebrate Father's Day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Dinner, Bulls and Bottle Service
This is it, this is the guide for the person doing the planning, the one who wants to make the night feel like a real occasion without having to coordinate three different venues, chase down reservations at four different places, or settle for a dinner that is fine but not memorable.
Inly Alvarez
Jun 84 min read
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