Food Adventuring Around NYC
I’m very excited for this craft beer event on Saturday and you should be too. The Village Voice is hosting the 2nd annual Brooklyn Pour on Saturday, October 6. It will take place at Skylight One Hanson (which hosts the Brooklyn Flea in winter) in Fort Greene and will feature an unbelievable amount of craft …
My search for the best beer made in or around New York was probably my most audacious search yet. It’s an impossible mission for a number of reasons. First off, to compare one style to another and say one is the best is ludicrous. That’s part of why I love beer so much. The flavors can …
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… I have so many excuses as to why I didn’t make it to Earl’s Beer …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Everybody wants to be from Brooklyn these days. It may just be the hippest place in the world. It’s so cool, trendy, and unique that a few years ago The Brooklyneer opened up in Manhattan serving food and drinks from the neighboring borough to the …
It’s hard to imagine that there were once 48 breweries in Brooklyn. Even harder to imagine that by 1976, the well had run dry and with the exit of Schaeffer and Rhinegold, there were zero breweries in Brooklyn. Zero!! It wasn’t until 1996 when Brooklyn Brewery opened their facility in Williamsburg that craft beer became …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. While I’ve been drinking my fair share of beer these last few months, I’m still no expert. I’m also a bit of a coward. When it comes to the idea of sending a beer back due to a bad tap line at a bar, I’d …
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… I could have checked this list item off a while back, but I was waiting …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. The day will come that if you walk in to any independently owned Brooklyn restaurant, you will find a beer brewed just for them by Sixpoint. In a span of a week, I was at two of Brooklyn’s hottest restaurants for a meal and …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. You haven’t seen Barrier Brewery mentioned much on this website as of late and there’s a very good reason. The guys in Oceanside have recently moved into a bigger space and had to halt production during the interim. So sadly, the diverse beers have not …
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… I’m always on the lookout for potential items for my end of the year Top …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I don’t like to do what everybody else does. So when I go to a wine bar, I turn my nose up at all those Cabs and Syrahs and instead I ask, “What’s on tap?” That can now be a loaded question since many bars …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I guess when most people get out of work, they want to hole up in a cheap bar with lots of other people for Happy Hour. Maybe it’s because I don’t work in a quiet office, but these places generally don’t do it for me. …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. The speakeasy trend has become somewhat of a cliché in New York. It seems that any restaurant or bar with an unmarked storefront can be called a speakeasy. Just don’t raise a sign at your establishment and you’ll be hidden and hip. The days of …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, HEARTLAND BREWERY IS NOW CLOSED. While the NY craft beer scene continues to expand with breweries, craft beer bars, and restaurants that brew their own beer, Heartland Brewery has sort of gotten the short end of the stick. I remember visiting the original Union Square …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I drank a Jamaican inspired beer from Long Island’s Blue Point Brewery at Ulysses’ Folk House, an Irish themed pub on Stone Street, the oldest paved street in the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Jamaican, American, Irish, Dutch. Whew! Talk about cultures colliding. I’ve …
We are on a strict time schedule when making these videos, but we found a few moments to goof off and lucky for you, they were captured on tape. So here’s a short funny little blooper reel of the shenanigans that happened behind the scenes during the shooting of Episode 6: Something Borrowed, Something Brewed. …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. A few weeks ago I went to what I thought was a “Tap Takeover” by Empire Brewing Company at Pony Bar. I got to try their great seasonal White Aphro, but most of the beers on the menu were not actually from Empire. Two beers …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “resin” outside of referring to leftover bits of marijuana. And when Sixpoint released one of their newer can offerings and named it Resin, I assume it referred to the fact that the hop flower is closely related …
We almost didn’t go to Googa Mooga yesterday afternoon. Even though I had secured tickets, the overwhelming negative response to the food festival’s first day (on Saturday) was disheartening. I mean, of course I expected it to be crowded and chaotic, but the horror stories about hour long waits and the scarcity of actual food …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. As an addendum to this review, it turns out the beer I reviewed was mislabeled and in fact not Long Ireland’s Celtic Ale. Greg, one of the owners at Long Ireland Beer Company, wrote to inform me that this must have been their Pale Ale …