Food Adventuring Around NYC
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City This was the first New Year’s Eve I was celebrating with someone under the age of 21 since I was 21 myself. I have a three year old son and this year our babysitter was unavailable. …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… What intrigued me most about this inventive bitter aperitivo is not that it was blue, but that the blue color comes from all natural ingredients (herbs, flowers, etc.). Those ingredients are a close kept secret of the local producers behind Uncouth Vermouth and Atsby who collaborated to …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2017… Some people have heard about the gins or whiskeys made in Brooklyn, but many New Yorkers have no idea that there is a traditional Puerto Rican spirit being made in the Bronx. To make the pitorro, Port Morris Distillery uses a mix of brown …
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. NY Craft Cocktail Tour explores the craft cocktail culture of New York from local distilleries to specialty spirit shops to amazing cocktail bars and speakeasies. After a visit to Brooklyn Brewery, the next natural step is to walk a few blocks and …
It hasn’t happened yet, but it will get cold in this city (unless global warming has changed all that already). And the best way to warm up during the cold season is, not with a coat, but with locally made spirits and cocktails. Village Voice will be showcasing the exciting local distilling scene once again with …
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. NY Craft Cocktail Tour explores the craft cocktail culture of New York from local distilleries to specialty spirit shops to amazing cocktail bars and speakeasies. If you didn’t know, Red Hook might be the booziest neighborhood in Brooklyn. In addition to a winery, …
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. NY Craft Cocktail Tour explores the craft cocktail culture of New York from local distilleries to specialty spirit shops to amazing cocktail bars and speakeasies. In 2007, a law was passed called the NY Farm Distillery Act which has enabled small distilleries …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City It seems like the holidays come earlier every year. This year I noticed decorations and Christmas cheer starting in September. The Bryant Park Holiday Market even opened two weeks before Halloween!! In my mind, you shouldn’t …
For the fourth year in a row, I present the 100 most exciting dishes I’ve consumed during my food adventures around the five boroughs. Look for another five dishes every few days. Liquid diets in the nutrition world might be a positive thing when you’re blending kale, bananas, and the like. But a liquid diet …
Outside of beer, I don’t spend too much time writing about drinks on this blog. But I love a good cocktail and oftentimes a local bar creates a libation that is so complexly flavored and constructed that I have to take note. And beyond that, the local distilling scene is growing very quickly with businesses …