Food Adventuring Around NYC
The Place: I already wrote about Guzzle (and their conjoined sister Sip) last week when I praised one of their unique cocktails. This highly regarded cocktail bar duo is very difficult to get into without advanced planning. So when I did strike jackpot and got a table, I ordered as much as I could within …
The Place: The long line during the day on the corner of Cornelia Street in the Village is for Arcane Estate, which was recently voted one of the best coffee shops in the world. Then when the evening approaches, another line forms a few doors down in front of Sip & Guzzle, which was recently …
THE PLACE: Not exactly a “speakeasy” but Chez Zou is certainly hidden from view in the somewhat undiscovered neighborhood (or rather, development plaza) of Manhattan West – inside and upstairs a trendy Mediterranean restaurant. It feels like an extension of Zou Zou’s with large couches and a bar that is nestled into the wall. It’s …
THE PLACE: Bar Goto is a narrow unmarked cocktail den in the Lower East Side that has become legendary in the craft cocktail world. The bar is the main centerpiece, but a few intimate tables wrap around it and a serious, but casual mood is set by the expert bartenders and wait staff. It’s both …
THE PLACE: This prime corner bar space has changed hands many times in the last few years, but it’s current tenant is possibly the most major player in the cocktail scene that has inhabited this space in recent memory. ¡Superbueno! has been beloved by those in the drinks industry and in 2024, it was named …
THE PLACE: One of the newer speakeasies in the city, Paradise Lost is a super fun new tiki bar that has become a little secret among local bartenders. A (mostly) unmarked door that requires a hostess to buzz you in, reveals a kitschy transportive hallway leading to a “tropical hellscape” that is as fun and …
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. …
SADLY, SIDNEY’S FIVE IS NOW CLOSED. 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 name implies. Since I am only here now on certain afternoons, I strolled …
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 …