Food Adventuring Around NYC
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 …
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…. The Eataly empire is a madhouse. I usually get intimidated and anxiety ridden when I walk in. They fit so many food options and kiosks in this space that there’s really nowhere else for them to add anything. So in true New York fashion, they …
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 …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, CHELSEA BREWING COMPANY IS NOW CLOSED. I’ve never been any good at sports (aside from a lucky streak at ping pong once), but I can only imagine how much worse I’d be if I had a few pints in me. Or maybe it would actually …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I brought two of Brooklyn Brewery’s bottle fermented beers to Thanksgiving dinner to pair with the turkey and I thought the tradition should continue with Christmas. So I picked up the other bottle-fermented beer, the Sorachi Ace. Now I mainly brought it because I wanted …
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…. Oceanside, New York. That name might not mean much to you, but it’s somewhere I know very well. I’ve been taken on little tours of houses and schools and heard so many stories about that town. That’s because this is the town on the south …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Usually with Thanksgiving dinner, you’ll find a bottle of wine, some cranberry cocktails, or perhaps apple cider. But this year, I decided to bring a bottle of something a little closer to my heart and more pleasing to my palate: beer. I’ve been reading books …
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. …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Many people don’t know this (at least I didn’t), but the original capital of New York State was Kingston. The British burned the city down in the late 1700’s and the capital was later moved to Albany. I learned all this in my travels and …
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 …