Starting tonight and continuing the second Monday of each month, Jim Lahey and his team at Co. (230 9th Ave. at 24th St.) will host monthly movie nights paired with a pie inspired by the movie. Tonight’s movie is Les Blank’s “Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers” and the special pie is going to be garlic-inspired. The movie will be played silently during the beginning of dinner service and then will be shown with sound at 9:30 p.m. In addition, sales of the special movie night pies will go towards the West 50th Street Campus’ High School of Hospitality Management and Food and Finance High School. Here’s a little snippet of the movie to whet your appetite.
Yes, the Super Bowl is an excuse to drink lots of beer. But there’s no excuse for drinking bad, watered-down crap beer. All you can drink specials are enticing, we know, but don’t fall for the ones that include only Coors Light or Bud Light. We’re heading to Rattle ’N’ Hum bar (14 E. 33rd St) with a big group of friends where the deal is $40 for all you can drink – draft and cask beer and liquor – whistle-to-whistle plus free wings at halftime. We’re pullin’ for the Saints all the way! We’re hopin’ there will be some of N’awlins finest Abita beer on-hand. Here some other spots where you can watch the Super Bowl and drink quality beer… Continue Reading »
For the tailgating hour of 5:30-6:30pm on Super Bowl Sunday, Delmonico’s Restaurant (56 Beaver St.) will be serving up free buttermilk fried chicken, free double-fried french fries and free Stella pints!
You have to check out this promotion, or more like publicity stunt, put out today by Smith & Wollensky. They’re offering free steaks to traders and investment bankers who have been paid their bonuses not in cash, but with company stock. One thing these geniuses at Smith & Wollensky don’t take into account is that most stock bonus awards are in the form of options that vest over a certain time period. So none of these bankers are really gonna have stock certs yet from this year’s bonus. A better deal would be if you could exchange your now worthless stock certificates for a special offer like a free glass of wine. As part of the promo, anyone can swap any NYSE and NASDAQ stock certificates (priced at close of business) for steaks. You may not be getting fat, juicy cash bonuses, but at least you can get fat, juicy steaks! Thanks to our friend Adam in Atlanta for sending along the tip!
On February 23rd, David Burke at Bloomingdale’s is kicking off its 2010 Beverage Series Dinners with a 4-course dinner featuring the single malt scotches of Gordon & MacPhail. For just $40/person (not incl tax + gratuity), you get hors d’oeuvres and four courses paired with Gordon & MacPhail scotches, including a 21-year, a 24-year and a 30-year. Pretty darn good deal for your single malt fans out there. Click the invite below for the full menu. RSVP: dana@davidburke.com
I realized this past week that nowhere on our website do we highlight our recent meals or our favorite go-to spots by neighborhood. To make the site a better resource for those looking for restaurant recommendations and to showcase where we’ve been eating and drinking lately, we have decided to launch a new section called “Tried & True”. First up, the neighborhood we call home — Midtown East (ranging north-south from 42nd St to 57th and east-west from 1st Ave to 5th Ave). Continue Reading »
We have been pushing hard for this for a while and finally some restaurants seem to be warming up to the idea of offering wine as part of their prix-fixe menu. While some are offering it as an option in place of dessert, others are offering a glass of wine in lieu of the dessert course altogether. No offense to dessert-happy people or to all the fine pastry chefs out there (though I can tell you point blank I have zero interest whatsoever in watching the upcoming ‘Top Chef: Just Desserts’). Wine is a mandatory part of almost every meal we eat out while dessert, quite frankly, is not. I’ll take a 2-course prix-fixe + a glass of wine any day over your standard 3-course prix-fixe. Who wouldn’t? Take, for example, Aroma Kitchen & Winebar’sFrugal Feast that begins again starting next week (36 E. 4th St). Every Tuesday and Wednesday, you can get 2 courses (app + main) plus a glass of wine for $32. This is exactly the type of deal I’m looking for. (NB: They’re also offering it Thursday and Friday pre-theater; click here for the menu)
Just got an email today that Restaurant.com is again offering $25 restaurant gift certificates for only $2. I’m usually of the mindset that when something seems too good to be true, it is. So, when Restaurant.com had a similar offer back in December, I decided to test the waters and snatched up $25 gift certificates to each of Beacon Restaurant & Bar, 10 Downing Food & Wine, Aleo and Ethos. I was charged a grand total of $8 for $100 in gift certificates. But how would this play out when I tried to use them? To find out, my Mom and I headed over to Beacon Restaurant & Bar on a recent Sunday for brunch…. Continue Reading »
Given that a filet or NY strip in the city typically costs on average between $35-$50 on its own, steakhouses can provide you with some great Restaurant Week bang for your buck. Problem is many participating Restaurant Week steakhouses only offer one steak on the RW menu and it’s more often than not a teeny tiny petite filet or an inexpensive cut like a flank steak. Here we’ve broken down the 15 best steakhouse restaurant week menus in order of the best deals (based on steak portion size and value, restaurant reputation, restaurant atmosphere and overall RW menu value) to help steeryou in the right direction (sorry, couldn’t help myself)… Continue Reading »
Happy Australia Day! For some fun, boozy specials in honor of Australia Day (which apparently commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and which is the official national day of Australia), check out our post below (or click here). Instead of reaching for one of our favorite bottles of Shiraz in honor of the holiday, we decided to try out an Aussie Riesling which worked well with our spicy turkey burgers last night. It reminded us of a summer afternoon relaxing on the terrace with a cool glass of white in hand and with our favorite burgers on the grill. So, in honor of Australia Day, Jacob’s Creek Steingarten Riesling is our wine of the week! For our tasting notes…. Continue Reading »
NYC’s Winter Restaurant Week has officially arrived. To get the most out of your Restaurant Week experiences, it’s important that you do your homework to find out which restaurants are really going all out with their menus and which ones are just trying to get you in the door. One great place to start is this Restaurant Week guide put out by Serious Eats. Also, for the wine drinkers out there, a Restaurant Week dinner can get expensive real quick. Thankfully, several restaurants are offering budget-friendly wine specials to accompany their Winter Restaurant Week menus. Our favorites are ilili restaurant (pouring complimentary samples of Lebanese wines), and Redeye Grill, Bond 45, Shelly’s Trattoria and Trattoria dell’Arte (all of which will allow you to substitute a glass of wine for the dessert course). Here’s our complete rundown… Continue Reading »
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi Oi Oi! Also known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day and Invasion Day, Australia Day is the official national day of pride in Australia. Celebrated annually on January 26th, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, marking the start of British colonization of Australia. As if places like The Sunburnt Cow and Bondi Road needed any more excuse to party. Both restaurants, including the brand new Sunburnt Calf at 226 W. 79th St, are offering a $20=3 Hours of drinking as much as you can or as they like to call it “3 Hours of Happiness.” They’ll also be serving burgers and steak sandwiches for $3. But these aren’t the only Aussie parties in town. We also have The Australian, Eight Mile Creek, Van Diemens, and others. Check out how they’re celebrating next week…. Continue Reading »
Just came across this promo video for the new Pump Energy Food. It centers around the fictitious Crap corporation, with ads featuring Crap being put on all sorts of food and made to look like modern takes on old food ads.
The Bar at Roth’s (680 Columbus Ave. at 93rd St) is a proud supporter of the New York Jets. They’re giving away FREE SHOTS every time the Jets score, as well as FREE VICTORY PILSNER for every Jets interception! Don’t believe me? Then check this out:
Starting tonight and continuing the second Monday of each month, Jim Lahey and his team at Co. (230 9th Ave. at 24th St.) will host monthly movie nights paired with a pie inspired by the movie. Tonight’s movie is Les Blank’s “Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers” and the special pie is going to be garlic-inspired. The movie will be played silently during the beginning of dinner service and then will be shown with sound at 9:30 p.m. In addition, sales of the special movie night pies will go towards the West 50th Street Campus’ High School of Hospitality Management and Food and Finance High School. Here’s a little snippet of the movie to whet your appetite.
Yes, the Super Bowl is an excuse to drink lots of beer. But there’s no excuse for drinking bad, watered-down crap beer. All you can drink specials are enticing, we know, but don’t fall for the ones that include only Coors Light or Bud Light. We’re heading to 
I realized this past week that nowhere on our website do we highlight our recent meals or our favorite go-to spots by neighborhood. To make the site a better resource for those looking for restaurant recommendations and to showcase where we’ve been eating and drinking lately, we have decided to launch a new section called “Tried & True”. First up, the neighborhood we call home — Midtown East (ranging north-south from 42nd St to 57th and east-west from 1st Ave to 5th Ave). 
We have been pushing hard for this for a while and finally some restaurants seem to be warming up to the idea of offering wine as part of their prix-fixe menu. While some are offering it as an option in place of dessert, others are offering a glass of wine in lieu of the dessert course altogether. No offense to dessert-happy people or to all the fine pastry chefs out there (though I can tell you point blank I have zero interest whatsoever in watching the upcoming ‘Top Chef: Just Desserts’). Wine is a mandatory part of almost every meal we eat out while dessert, quite frankly, is not. I’ll take a 2-course prix-fixe + a glass of wine any day over your standard 3-course prix-fixe. Who wouldn’t? Take, for example, 
Just got an email today that 
Given that a filet or NY strip in the city typically costs on average between $35-$50 on its own, steakhouses can provide you with some great Restaurant Week bang for your buck. Problem is many participating Restaurant Week steakhouses only offer one steak on the RW menu and it’s more often than not a teeny tiny petite filet or an inexpensive cut like a flank steak. Here we’ve broken down the 15 best steakhouse restaurant week menus in order of the best deals (based on steak portion size and value, restaurant reputation, restaurant atmosphere and overall RW menu value) to help steer you in the right direction (sorry, couldn’t help myself)… 
Here are links to 50+ Winter Restaurant Week menus that aren’t on the NYCGO.com website:
Happy Australia Day! For some fun, boozy specials in honor of Australia Day (which apparently commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and which is the official national day of Australia), check out our post below (or click 
NYC’s Winter Restaurant Week has officially arrived. To get the most out of your Restaurant Week experiences, it’s important that you do your homework to find out which restaurants are really going all out with their menus and which ones are just trying to get you in the door. One great place to start is this 
