Food Adventuring Around NYC
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… Cocktails with no alcohol sound like an oxymoron but they were all the rage this year. I found one of these surprising inventive mixed drinks at one of the city’s best cocktail bars. Existing Conditions has a full menu of low and full-alcohol concoctions, …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Most of the dishes I write about are specific to a certain restaurant here in New York. You could certainly try lasagna anywhere around the country (and in some places in Italy), but you can only …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. The last time I reviewed (or really tased) any beers from Grimm was way back in 2013 when they first hit the scene as a gypsy brewer. Early on, they were incredibly experimental and slowly built up a momentum of rabid beer followers. I imagine …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… Since I reviewed their brewery, IcoNYC has opened up a new tasting room in Long Island City. One of the beers you should definitely try (if you can still find it), is the ruby red Hib Hob. It features tart hibiscus up front that …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… Big bold high-alcohol beers are still the rage in the craft beer world. Whether it’s a giant pastry stout or an extra-bitter IPA, big and bad is sometimes thought of as better. But I am sometimes attracted to the simple and easy drinking. Enter …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Walk into any craft beer shop in the tri-state area and you would most definitely see a number of beer cans from Evil Twin. They became ubiquitous over the last few years. And amazingly, I had barely tasted any of their beers. When in the …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Sweet tea spots with bubble tea, sugars, and all sorts of milk have become ubiquitous all over the city. I’ve been to a handful and enjoyed them in moderation. But I have not been able to keep …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City To save money, I have gotten into the habit of brewing my own coffee and bringing it into the city with me. But every once in a while, I like to splurge on a coffee in order …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. While trying to decide which beer to order at Cardiff Giant, I was on the phone with an old friend who is not as plugged into the craft beer world. I read the ingredients on the Mikkeller offering and he did a double take, “Lactose?? Lactose …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I don’t drink soda. I truly can’t remember the last time I ordered a Coke. It has been probably a decade – maybe more. But the other day, I was at Court Street Grocer’s excellent Hero Shop …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City There is a famous drink many old-school New Yorkers know well called an Egg Cream. The funny story about the drink is that it doesn’t contain egg and it doesn’t contain cream. The less familiar Egg …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I headed out to the unique brewery Island to Island in Flatbush, Brooklyn to include them on my official search for the best breweries in the city. This is one that has been around for a …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, PEGU CLUB IS NOW CLOSED. Pegu Club is to the cocktail world as Lombardi’s is to the pizza world. Lombardi’s was the launch pad for pizza legends behind places like Totonno’s, John’s, and Patsy’s. If you’ve gone …
ICONYC BREWING COMPANY IS NOW FOCAL BEER POINT CO. I didn’t realize exactly where I was going when I made my way to the tasting room of IcoNYC Brewing Company. It wasn’t until I stepped off the subway and started walking to the strange little mini-shopping plaza that I realized I was in my own …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The craft beer world looks different than you might imagine. While there is some truth to the hipster brewer with a curlicue moustache, there are more women behind the bars at tap rooms and in the …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, MIKKELLER BREWING NYC IS NOW CLOSED. Just like the two opposing baseball teams, we will soon have two local breweries that have a competitive edge cut from the same place. The Mets and Yankees, no matter who you route for, are both New York through and …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, GRAND REPUBLIC COCKTAIL CLUB IS NOW CLOSED. So I cheat a little bit. My first Dish of the Week every year is usually a cocktail that I tasted on New Year’s Eve. So it’s technically …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… One thing I vowed to do this year is to eat less meat. And I was mostly successful at that, as is evidenced in my list of 100 Best dishes. I found some amazing vegetarian (and vegan) food around the city. It’s easier and more …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… One thing I vowed to do this year is to eat less meat. And I was mostly successful at that, as is evidenced in my list of 100 Best dishes. I found some amazing vegetarian (and vegan) food around the city. It’s easier and more …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… If you lived or hung out at coffee shops in Southeast Asia, you would most certainly be familiar with a Milo or a Milo Dinosaur. Kopitiam is NYC’s answer to those Malaysian coffee shops and they serve one of the more popular sweet drinks. Milo …