Viva Toro

Inly Alvarez · Brooklyn Dining

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 · Brooklyn Dining

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 · Private Events

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 · Brooklyn Dining

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 · Local Guides

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 still cooking...

Inly Alvarez · Sports Watch Party

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 sports bar in...

Inly Alvarez · Private Events

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 · Sports Watch Party

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. Somebody came because...

Inly Alvarez · Private Events

Viva Toro is Williamsburg's top bachelorette party venue, with the mechanical bull, bottle service, and a night built for celebrating.

Inly Alvarez · Summer Brunch

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 · Sports Watch Party

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 · Sports Watch Party

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 · Local Guides

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 · Local Guides

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 · Events

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.