So, here’s another “best of” list for you to chew on. While I thought SeamlessWeb was the only online food delivery service in town, apparently Delivery.com exists, too, and they have just revealed their picks for the Best of Take Out Awards 2009. And the envelope, please:  Best Burger: Stand (24 E 12th St, NYC) [...]

We hit up the final MADCrush pop-up wine bar of the year last night at the Museum of Arts and Design. Chef Damian Sansonetti was on hand and serving up some snacks from Bar Boulud. We tried the Gougères with Housemade Pastrami and the Berkshire Pork Rinds. We also found out about a new $29 [...]

In college, during class was probably the only time you weren’t drinking. Now, SUSHISAMBA 7 (87 Seventh Avenue South; 212-691-7885) is letting you learn and drink at the same time with the re-launch of its popular SUSHI+SAKE 101 class. Starting next Monday, September 21st, and running these Monday’s (10/26, 11/30, 12/21), this hands-on, boozy tutorial will put you on the path to becoming a “master [...]

USA Today has joined the club in becoming the latest newspaper to launch a wine club. The paper follows in the footsteps of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. USA Today has selected My Wines Direct as its partner for the USA Today Wine Club. They are offering six bottles of wine [...]

The final MADCrush of the season featuring the food of Bar Boulud takes place tonight from 6:00pm-10:30pm at the Museum of Arts and Design (2 Columbus Cir). For just $6 each, Bar Boulud’s Chef Damian Sansonetti will be offering Crispy Berkshire Pork Rinds, Housemade Pate, Gougères with Housemade Pastrami, Potato, Market Fennel and Niςoise Olive Salad, Praline Crunch-Hazelnut [...]

Thanks to our friend Jen for passing along info about this intriguing new Top 50 list published by the U.K.’s Guardian. While I tend to be skeptical of such “best of” lists, this one of the “50 Best Things to Eat in the World & Where to Eat Them” is a great travel resource regardless of whether [...]

The season was supposed to be over for pop-up wine bar, MADCrush. But this collaboration between designer Stephanie Goto (Morimoto, Buddakan, Corton) and Crush Wine & Spirits has one more Thurs night “pop-up” event up its sleeve in the seventh floor events space of the Museum of Arts and Design. In grand finale fashion, Crush has [...]

The fourth event in an ongoing Austrian Wine Series at Cafe Sabarsky (1048 Fifth Avenue) features a five-course wine dinner in an evening chock-full of food, wine and art hosted by Austrian winemaker Uwe Schiefer, chef Kurt Gutenbrunner and the Neue Galerie. The dinner is $155 per person with Late-Summer Canapes at 7:00 p.m. and Dinner at 7:30 p.m., [...]

The Joy of Sake, featuring 271 sakes and 15 restaurants, takes place at Webster Hall on September 24 from 6pm – 9pm (tickets $80 in advance; $90 at the door). It features premium sakes submitted as entries to the U.S. National Sake Appraisal, a blind tasting held every year with ten judges from Japan and [...]

On Sunday, September 20th from 1pm – 8pm il Buco is hosting its sixth annual “Sagra del Maiale”, an outdoor Pig Festival commemorating the Autumn Equinox  as well as its15th anniversary. We hear that Chef Ignacio Mattos and staff will rise before the sun and start a bonfire on Bond Street between Lafayette and Bowery, [...]

The news coming from Aussie favorites The Sunburnt Cow and Bondi Road just keeps getting better! On Sunday, September 27th, The Sunburnt Cow (137 Ave C) will be serving FREE FOOD ALL DAY LONG in celebration of its 6th birthday. That’s not all — at 3pm there’s gonna be a free spit-roasted cow. On the [...]

We got the news late yesterday from an @SmorgasChef tweet. Smorgas Chef is introducing an all-you-can-drink brunch at its Stone Street location (Sat-Sun from 10:30am-5pm). For a $10 supplement to the $16.95 brunch prix fixe, you can now get unlimited champagne or cocktails made with Comte de Gascogne Blanc de Blancs Champagne. But that’s not [...]

A quick look at the event schedule for this year’s NY Craft Beer Week shows just how far along the craft beer revolution has come in the past year alone. There are beer pairing dinners at the likes of Per Se, Resto, Tabla and Mas (farmhouse) and a beer pairing class at Murray’s Cheese. Zagat [...]

Andy and I tend to taste a lot of fantastic wines (and some not so fabulous wines) each week.  We love to pop open a new, interesting bottle of wine as we sit down to a home cooked dinner, and I especially love to have a glass while I’m hard at work in the kitchen [...]

There are many around town who call the burger at Michael Jordan’s Steak House the most underrated burger in the city. We tried it a few months back as part of the Benjamin Steakhouse Burger Challenge and agree that it’s a pretty fine burger. Starting this Friday and going through the end of September, MJ [...]