We would like to wish you all a very happy new year. 
May 2009 bring health, happiness, and lots of great wining and dining to you all!
Cheers,
Andy & Jill
 

There is no better deal than an all you can drink brunch in NYC and there is no better deal for an all you can drink brunch than Roberto Passon in Hells Kitchen (741 Ninth Avenue at 50th Street).  With no brunch items over $12 and with unlimited brunch cocktails (champagne, mimosas, screwdrivers, bloody marys, [...]

While most college students spend their free time drinking beer, a group of students at Rice University are experimenting with it. They’re using genetic engineering to create beer, aptly named “BioBeer,” that contains resveratrol, a chemical in red wine that’s been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals. Resveratrol, found in the skin [...]

Here’s our gift to you this holiday season. I first discovered WinesTilSoldOut.com (WTSO) last year in a small advertisement in the back of an issue of New York Magazine. I decided to go online and see what it was all about. Since then, we’ve purchased no less than 100 bottles of wine through this site at unbelievable prices [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… well, okay, it has been looking like Christmas for a while here in NYC, but we’ve just put together a list of our 5 favorite festive spots if you are looking for some extra NYC holiday cheer.  Beware, if you hit up too many of these classics, you [...]

Thanks to everyone who voted for the next Burger Wars. While it was a tight race, Royale vs. The Spotted Pig (East vs. West Village Burgers) eeked it out over P.J. Clarke’s vs. J.G. Mellon (Old-School Burgers) and Peter Luger’s vs. Old Homestead (Steakhouse Burgers). We’ll post the time and date of this Burger War [...]

As previously reported on Wined & Dined, Jean-Georges Vongerichten described his “Gift to You This Season” as his $24 prix-fixe lunches and his $35 prix-fixe dinners at most of his NYC restaurants.  He called the “best deal, by far” the 6 course mini-omakase dinner at Matsugen in TriBeCa, described by Zagat as a “Japanese soba [...]

This time of year is wining and dining season for us. Andy’s parents were in the city this Thanksgiving for 10 (gluttonous) days and were excited to try out some of our favorite spots around town. Among many others, we hit up Kuma Inn, Buddakan, Stage Deli, and Mia Dona. But even with all these great meals, we were [...]

We’ve been hearing about some great happy hour deals around the city. Here are a few that stand out:
BoozyNYC points out another to add to the growing list of burger + beer specials. This one’s at Stand (E. 12th b/t Univ. Pl & 5th Ave). Get 2 for 1 burgers everyday between 3-5pm. Also, from [...]

By now you may have heard that Houston’s, with NYC locations on Park Avenue South and East 53rd Street, is changing its name to Hillstone Manhattan, and with that, also changing its concept to a more seasonal focus. I found out about it yesterday from this post on Eater. This has left a lot of people scratchin’ their [...]

Hungry for dinner and without reservations, the wife and I couldn’t bring ourselves to drive past CRAFT opening weekend here in ATL. We were hoping to squeeze in for a first taste at CRAFTBAR—the looser downstairs sister boasting a recession special menu with entrees under 25 bucks. Although the upstairs was packed, within minutes of [...]

Thanks to a comment from byob lover to our Kuma Inn BYO review, we learned about BYOBLocator (http://www.byoblocator.com). This will be an amazing online resource for BYOB lovers everywhere when it takes off.  BYOBLocator is in its infancy and really needs people like us to log on and spread the word about BYOB spots in their locale. The [...]

Just saw that Astor Wines & Spirits (Lafayette @ E. 4th) is offering some INSANE deals on some of its best-selling wines of 2008. We’re talkin’ Two-Buck Chuck prices folks. A tempranillo for $4.99! An Argentinian red for $3.99!  A prosecco for $4.99! The best part is that you can sample them all at a free tasting [...]

It seems like there has been some reverse migration going on. While some well-known, old-time Atlanta chefs and restaurateurs have recently up and left the ATL for NYC (first it was Joel Antunes of Joël heading to NYC for a position at the Oak Room at the newly refurbished Plaza Hotel — check out today’s [...]

We had  a pretty nice (and very spontaneous) little Saturday…first we went to a free wine tasting of Long Island wines at Union Square Wines where we spoke with Kareem Massoud, Paumanok Vineyard’s winemaker, and tried Paumanok’s 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc, as well as its 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon and Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc (delicious [...]