Food Adventuring Around NYC
This new concoction by the chocolate geniuses at Mast Brothers sounds like a dessert of sorts. It’s not. While a little added sugar is recommended, this complex drink really lets the flavors of the cacao bean shine with fruity, earthy, or smoky flavors. It takes a little while to wrap your head around it, but …
SADLY, MATCHABAR IS NOW CLOSED. Not an easy task, but the new Matchabar in Williamsburg is attempting to wean Brooklynites off their morning coffee and onto the more healthful matcha. The powdered green tea produces a beautiful drink in any number of forms (hot, cold, with frothed milk, or with seasonal fruit juices) with a nice …
One of the most interesting beers I’ve tasted this year, the White Coffee Stout is a bit of a misnomer but it’s certainly exciting. The blonde colored beer releases the same sort of roasty, coffee flavors you expect from a dark stout. Here, it’s both creamy and light while rich and sweet. It’s as exciting …
This unusual beer is part of the brewery’s special Worshipful Company of Brewers series, wherein a different brewer gets to create whatever sort of beer he or she wants to and then it is available for a limited time exclusively at the brewery. When it was Saidou Ceesay’s turn at bat, he created a smoked …
SADLY, NITECAP IS NOW CLOSED. A refreshing, easy-drinking cocktail from one of the Lower East Side’s hottest new bars. Thigh Highs is a bubbly blend of rum, passionfruit purée, lime and pineapple juices, sparkling wine, and spices. Works in transporting you to a much warmer place. Price: $14 NITECAP 120 Rivington Street (between Essex and Norfolk Street), …
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 …
The cold has come. It has taken hold of this city and will probably not release its grasp until April. So what’s the best way to prepare for this onslaught of freezing? Drinking, of course. Village Voice has another big food and drink event coming up this Thursday, November 20 from 6-9pm and I, for …
This year, everywhere I turn, I feel a presence. Something is following me. It’s in every restaurant and café I visit. There is literally no escape from the madness. I captured the nightmarish reality in my newest Halloween video…
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Once again, the beer lovers of New York descended on the beautiful Skylight Hanson One in Fort Greene for Village Voice’s annual Brooklyn Pour. I was invited and although my Saturday afternoon was booked with tours, …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City There was a time not that long ago where I was dedicated to conquering Time Out New York’s 100 Best Dishes list every single year. It was a fun way of discovering new restaurants and dishes, …
I bring my sense of food adventure with me on the road, searching for the most authentic, iconic, and delicious dishes of a different region… For such a tiny little state (the tiniest, actually), I was amazed at how many local dishes I found in Rhode Island. There were so many different iconic foods that …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Most people would say iced coffee weather begins now. I’m one of the crazy few that likes ice cubes in my coffee all year long. In fact, if a coffee shop doesn’t offer cold brewed iced …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The Black Watch cocktail isn’t listed on Attaboy’s menu because the unmarked cocktail bar doesn’t have a menu or even a regular roster of cocktails. What it does have are skilled bartenders who can whip up …
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 …
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. After every meal, I crave something sweet. It’s a human problem, no doubt. And while I certainly indulge in chocolate and caramel from …
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 …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Last weekend, Village Voice hosted another one of their monster tasting events. These are endlessly fun and allow somebody as indecisive as me to taste as many things as my body can handle. This event was …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I love craft beer for many reasons. One of the biggest is that the brewers behind the suds have the freedom get very creative. Could you ever imagine a new Budweiser beer brewed with lavender or …
I bring my sense of food adventure with me on the road, searching for the most authentic, iconic, and delicious dishes of a different region… After spending just nine days in Hawaii, I’m convinced I should start a version of this blog on one of the islands. If I don’t end up moving to paradise …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Usually by now, margarita season is in full swing. During most Mays, New Yorkers are sitting outside at fashionable restaurants with their friends (and pets) and sipping on salt-rimmed tequila drinks. But something about this late …