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Thumb through the pages of the cocktail menu at Mace (649 East 9th Street) and you won't find classic drink names upon which to seize. Instead, you'll peruse names of spices in bold-face, each one sketched and explained, in addition to being listed i...
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Got a great recipe for mac and cheese? Or do you just want to try some?
If you now know every line of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, it's time to get out of the house. Here are this weekend's five best food and drink events.Gotham on a Plate, The New ...
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Come springtime, veg-heads rejoice in the return of greenmarket produce, while meat-eaters get excited about the flesh of young sheep. Omnivores get the best of both worlds, matching rosy and supple lamb to the abundance of carrots, asparagus, and ra...
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Christina Tosi didn't move to New York to make friends. The onetime Italian language and applied mathematics major made her way to the city with the sole goal of working her way up through the ranks of the restaurant industry. And that she did. After...
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From Beyond cocktail
Though drinking in the theater has always been acceptable at Nitehawk Cinema, owner Matthew Viragh had trouble luring patrons to the downstairs bar. When his team began trying to figure out how best to entice drinkers, they fo...
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Mozzarella pizza at Patsy's Pizza
Pitmaster John Stage of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (604 Union Street, Brooklyn; 700 West 125th Street) has watched Harlem change over the decade he's been in business. His 125th Street location gives him a great view of t...
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Remember the Maine
Jason Wagner may spend most of his time discussing wine at Fung Tu (22 Orchard Street, 212-219-8785), but that doesn't mean the sommelier doesn't have a fondness for the world outside of grapes.
Wagner's go-to classic drink is t...
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Our annual Choice Streets tasting event is quickly approaching: On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, more than twenty of the city's best food trucks will descend on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Pier 86 (West 46th Street and Twelfth Avenue, 212-245-007...
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Deep in south Brooklyn, you'll find We Are Georgians (230 Kings Highway, Brooklyn; 718-759-6250), a bare-bones Georgian restaurant that specializes in bread. One of only eleven Georgian restaurants in New York City, the restaurant's various Georgian ...
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Rita Sodi (right)
Weeks after Rita Sodi opened I Sodi (105 Christopher Street, 212-414-5774), her West Village paean to Tuscan food, in 2008, her chef quit. Sodi had never worked in a kitchen -- she'd been in the fashion industry for her entire ca...
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Regalo de Juquila Deli (1209 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn; 347-240-7111) is a five-year-old bodega that blends the taqueria-bodega model more comfortably than most. Picnic tables give you room to relax; they're surrounded by shelves of Mexican produce and...
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Pat LaFrieda's Steak at Citi Field
Baseball season is upon us, which means it's time again to secure a bleacher seat and cheer on one of our home teams. And/or drink a lot of beer and feast, for dining at the ballpark has never been better. From f...
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"When life gives you lemons..." people say, meaning, here's a bleak thing life's done to you, ugh, but you have to make the best of it. How that phrase became attached to lemons, I don't really know, because lemons are so useful and generally great. ...
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Bob de camaro at Casa Restaurant
Angolan fare is not just difficult to track down in NYC, it's hard to find on the entire Eastern Seaboard. When we called the Consulate General of the Republic of Angola in New York, we were told there was a rest...
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Peasant's (194 Elizabeth Street, 212-965-9511) wood-fired oven glows like a nuclear reactor. Though it's minimalist by industry standards, the hand-built fire pit's nightly output is staggering: meats roasted in terracotta; thin-crust pizzas topped b...
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If you walk past Greenpoint's cheesemonger/gourmet deli/beer paradise Eastern District (1053 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn), the first thing you'll notice are the goats. "We're having a feature on chvre right now," explains co-owner Chris Gray. "And lu...
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Vegan sandwich: Roasted cauliflower, basil pesto, and sprouts on house-baked sourdough bread
Throughout the world, bakeries are often the place to go for a good, cheap lunch. You'll find croissants in Paris, grab-and-go sandwiches in London, and s...
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Frito pie and armadillo eggs
El Original (735 Tenth Avenue) just joined this city's quickly swelling lineup of Mexican restaurants, making its debut with a limited-menu soft opening in a massive, twinkling light-hung address in Hell's Kitchen. The...
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Sun setting over Portugal's Alentejo wine region
Spring makes her stunning debut not with the blustery, wet weather forecast for this week, but with a knockout lineup of wine tastings from three stellar regions: Willamette, Oregon; Corsica, France...
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The Food Book Fair returns to NYC this Friday.
What's on tap this week? Corsican wines, cookies, and the return of the Food Book Fair. Here are the five best food and drink events in NYC for the week of April 6, 2015.The Art & Mystery of Brewing,B...
