Food Adventuring Around NYC
Have I just gotten old or was Thyme Bar just weird? Opened in 2020, this is one of the newer speakeasies (opened shortly before COVID) that became very popular in the city since the pandemic. It sits below a pastry shop on 23rd Street in an historic cellar. Thyme Bar is a little less hidden …
We took a family trip down to Puerto Rico recently and found great eats. I’ll be writing about some of them over the next few weeks, but the one I present today is not one I expected to write about. Or even like. Piña Coladas were invented in San Juan many years ago and have …
I have been sorely out of tocuh with the craft cocktail scene as of late. Before COVID, I was on top of it, even leading cocktail tours. Boy, I miss those days! Well, when we had a night out for my birthday without our well-under 21 year old son, a cocktail bar was in order. …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I have no doubt if I still regularly hung out in the East Village every night, I would be at Sidney’s Five very often for their happy hour specials. Certainly more than five times as the …
We’ve never been so close to home on this journey. We’re headed just a bit north to our friends and neighbors in Canada. I have so many friends from Canada who I hope check this out and give me honest feedback. They’ll probably just be nice (as Canadians are known for being). Sam was not so familiar …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. TALEA checks many of the boxes one could want in a Brooklyn brewery. It’s a female-owned brewery, it’s in the heart of hipster Williamsburg, and they have a specific focus when it comes to brewing beer. This business has been on my radar for a few years …
SADLY, DALEVIEW BISCUITS & BEER IS NOW CLOSED. Daleview Biscuits and Beer is in some ways my favorite kind of brewery. It’s a brewery that most people have no idea is actually a brewery. It’s one of the few places that only neighborhood locals or the very dedicated New York beer drinkers have even heard …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City While way more restaurants have sadly closed during the pandemic, a few have actually opened. Which is pretty crazy, but also hopeful that the restaurant industry will survive all this madness. One of the places that …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Katana Kitten was shaping up to be one of my favorite cocktail bars. It was somewhat under-the-radar despite winning the award for Best New American Bar at Tales of the Cocktail. The Japanese-inspired drinks and food were …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Literally days before this current reality of social distancing and quarantining began, I was in Mexico City with a group of people (for the Urban Adventures guide conference). But unfortunately, I had to cut my Mexico …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Whenever there is a team get together for our tour company, I am in charge of choosing the restaurant. I love that job but it sure is a lot of pressure. I can’t choose the wrong …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… The Cafe Disco was actually not the cocktail I ordered at Mister Paradise. It was one I spoke with the bartender about but I went a different way. Amazingly, before I finished my first cocktail, he poured me a taste of the one I …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… The Step Back might refer to taking a step back to a time when cocktails were classy, simple, and bitter. Those are my favorite types and that’s why Existing Conditions stole my heart again with another brilliant creation. This super easy drinking blend of amari and …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… It’s no secret that I am a sucker for coffee-flavored things. So when I discovered the Goldeneye cocktail at undersung cocktail den Sweet Polly, I was sold. I was skeptical at first that this was a vodka based drink, but the neutral spirit ended …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Most of the dishes I write about are specific to a certain restaurant here in New York. You could certainly try lasagna anywhere around the country (and in some places in Italy), but you can only …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. The last time I reviewed (or really tased) any beers from Grimm was way back in 2013 when they first hit the scene as a gypsy brewer. Early on, they were incredibly experimental and slowly built up a momentum of rabid beer followers. I imagine …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… I have never had an experience of eating fatty meat and not feeling slightly guilty at my gluttony. Honeybee’s does away with that guilt because all of the food here (like at all of Ravi DeRossi’s restaurants) are completely vegan. The pulled pork blew …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Walk into any craft beer shop in the tri-state area and you would most definitely see a number of beer cans from Evil Twin. They became ubiquitous over the last few years. And amazingly, I had barely tasted any of their beers. When in the …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City There are food trends that reach the mainstream like the cronut and the rainbow bagel. But then there are food trends that probably don’t get much attention or awareness outside the focused food industry. For instance, …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I headed out to the unique brewery Island to Island in Flatbush, Brooklyn to include them on my official search for the best breweries in the city. This is one that has been around for a …