Food Adventuring Around NYC
For the third year in a row, I’m going to attempt to eat every single item on Time Out New York’s annual 100 Best Dishes list. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Let the gluttony continue… SADLY, MAISON PREMIERE IS NOW CLOSED. I had high hopes for the Absinthe Colada at Maison …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. At one of the most western (geographically, not culturally) bars in the entire city, I had a taste of a new beer from the most eastern brewery in the state of New York. Now I’m pretty awful at geography, so don’t hold me to either …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Dive 75, which is part of the Dive Bars, a group of three bars in upper Manhattan, is really not a dive bar at all. The dark atmosphere, free candy bars, and Bud Light on tap is not enough to justify the dive moniker. This …
For the third year in a row, I’m going to attempt to eat every single item on Time Out New York’s annual 100 Best Dishes list. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Let the gluttony continue… SADLY, ELSA IS NOW CLOSED. Large format dinners are big in this city. And not just …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. All the breweries in Brooklyn take risks with their beers. Brooklyn Brewery does some interesting brews with their Brewmaster’s Reserve Series, using wild yeasts or special honey or maple syrup. Kelso has been aging their regular beers in different types of barrels (whiskey, wine, sherry, …
For the third year in a row, I’m going to attempt to eat every single item on Time Out New York’s annual 100 Best Dishes list. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Let the gluttony continue… Pairing food and beer has become much more popular in the last few years. Fortunately, …
I really feel like I stumbled on a little gem of a bar in an area that’s sort of in between neighborhoods. I was trying to pass some time one early evening and I was looking for a craft beer bar to taste a local brew between Soho and the Lower East Side. Thanks to …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I met the owners of Empire Brewing Company a few weeks back when they caught me taking photos of the beers at Birreria. I guess I piqued their interest and we started chatting. And I’m glad we did because they convinced me that I should …
For the third year in a row, I’m going to attempt to eat every single item on Time Out New York’s annual 100 Best Dishes list. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Let the gluttony continue… SADLY, PEGU CLUB IS NOW CLOSED. During this food adventure, I often sling a video camera …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, JIMMY’S NO. 43 IS NOW CLOSED. Every time I’ve been inside the subterranean craft beer enclave Jimmy’s No. 43, it’s smelled like sausage. That’s not a bad thing, mind you. In the back of this maze of a bar is a small little kitchen and …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. When I go out to review anything – a beer or a corned beef sandwich – I sort of like to be left alone. I have photos to snap, notes to write, and ideas to digest. I try to be as discreet as possible because …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I’ve already proclaimed on this site that Kelso’s Pilsner is the best version of an American pilsner I have ever tasted. It was over a year ago and I was amazed at the complexity of this normally bland tasting beer. For reference, most of the …
I’ve devoured Time Out’s 100 Best dishes and now, once again, I’ve been inspired to create my own list. These are the 100 dishes I have continued to think about since tasting them at some point in 2011. Look for another five dishes every few days. These are in no particular order. 35. DIRTY PICKLE …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, KEG NO. 229 IS NOW CLOSED. My life is laden with indecisiveness, so when places make it easier for me to not make a decision, I truly appreciate it. Keg No. 229 was both difficult and easy for me. I had a $2 off coupon …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Hops is one of the most important ingredients in beer. It’s the female of any number of flowering plants in the Cannabaceae family (the same family as marijuana) and it acts as a flavoring and preserving agent in beer. It helps balance the sweetness of …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, THE PONY BAR IS NOW CLOSED. I think The Pony Bar is my new favorite craft beer bar in the city. It looks like a dive from the exterior and it’s so far west (10th Avenue) that most people probably wouldn’t consider it a destination. …
I’ve devoured Time Out’s 100 Best dishes and now, once again, I’ve been inspired to create my own list. These are the 100 dishes I have continued to think about since tasting them at some point in 2011. Look for another five dishes every few days. These are in no particular order. NUMBER 75: POTATO …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I think it’s important when a small business is starting out to focus on one thing and really perfect that. Especially a food business. There are so many restaurants that open and are way too ambitious and fail because they try to be the best …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Swift Hibernian Lounge is one of the stops on Urban Oyster’s Fermented New York: East Village Crawl. Urban Oyster, of course, is the tour company for whom I give both food cart tours and beer tours. I don’t give the Fermented tours and I’ve only …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, has officially come and gone this year. I imagine most of you (myself included) missed the costume parade and the gun salute. The good news, however, is we can still enjoy copious amounts of Oktoberfest-style beers. Traditionally, these …