There’s no better month than September to be a craft beer lover. NY Craft Beer Week kicks off on September 24 with 10 days of craft beer and food events. The crown jewel of NY Craft Beer Week is the 1st Annual Get Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival taking place September 25 & [...]

Hot damn! We just heard that Daniel Boulud’s DBGB Kitchen & Bar is now offering a whole hog dinner with all-you-can-drink craft beer for up to 8 guests for $450 (plus tax & tip). Just give them 3-days notice and Chef Jim Leiken will stuff a whole Pennsylvania Green Village Farms applewood smoked and roasted [...]

MeanRed Productions announced on its website that it will be hosting its aptly named food truck festival, Parked, on Governors Island (Colonel’s Row) on September 5th. The last Parked drew over 3,000 people to BKLYN Yard for brick oven pizza, dumplings, German soul food, Vietnamese bbq, ice cream, cup cakes, and key lime pies.

From August 20-29, Grand Central Terminal will be kicking off the very first Grand Central Terminal Dining Week, featuring a selection of prix fixe menus, to-go meal options and discounts from food retailers and restaurants in the Terminal. Since there is such a diverse set of restaurants and food purveyors, this isn’t the typical one-size-fits-all [...]

Fend off the Monday blues with one of these great food & drink events taking place in the city today:
Resto’s Beer Dinner Series Presents ‘Blue Crab Feast and Summer Whites’: Resto (111 E 29th St) continues its Monday night beer dinner series tonight at 7 p.m. with a three course blue crab feast prepared by [...]

Union Square Wines and the Red Hook Winery are teaming up for an afternoon of wine tasting and lunch among the barrels on Saturday, August 14th.  One half of a winemaking team that includes Scholium Project’s Abe Schoener, Robert Foley has returned to NY to help bottle the first vintage of Red Hook “Foley-protocol” red wine. Red Hook released its first round [...]

Legendary brunch spot Essex (120 Essex St @ Rivington) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this Saturday night in style with a free open bar from 11pm-midnight. To have your name placed on the guest list e-mail your name and the number of guests in your party to eat@essexnyc.com  They’ll send you a confirmation email. If you can’t [...]

Tuesday nights just got even more pork-a-licious here in NYC! I mean we’ve already got Marc Forgione’s Suckling Pig Sliders Happy Hour ($16 for all-you-can-devour; $14 for all-you-can-chug Brooklyn Lager) and Vareli Restaurant & Lounge’s Pig Tuesday ($37 3-course pork-centric menu; $50 w/ wine pairings). Now, every Tuesday through August 24th Hearth Restaurant (403 E 12th St [...]

In what is likely to go down as the “Dinner of the Decade”, four uber-celeb chefs — Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, Jerome Bocuse and New Orleans’ own Scott Boswell — have teamed up for an unprecedented culinary fundraising event to benefit the Barrier Islands Restoration & Development Society (B.I.R.D.S.) and the Bocuse d’Or USA Foundation. The benefit [...]

I know we’re in the middle of Restaurant Week, which by the way many restaurants are extending through the end of the summer, but there are some pretty amazing wine dinners and beer dinners coming up that are definitely worth a looksie.
Tuesday, July 20th: French Beer Dinner at DBGB –  4-course beer dinner featuring artisanal farmhouse [...]

We told you yesterday about the all-you-can-eat and drink BBQ that’s going down at Pera Mediterranean Brasserie on Saturday and Sunday.  But that’s not the only show in town.  Lots of restaurants are offering special menus and deals to help you celebrate the 4th in the city.  The Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights has teamed up with [...]

We’ll be cooling off this weekend in the mountains of North Carolina, but if we were sticking around these parts chances are good we’d be hitting up Pera Mediterranean Brasserie (303 Madison Ave b/t 41st & 42nd) for its Boundless Bargain Barbeques.  Check this out — for $19/person you get all the hanger steak, chicken brochette, lamb [...]

Beginning this week and continuing throughout the summer, Gotham Bar & Grill (12 E. 12th St.) will be paying homage to its Union Square Greenmarket Farmer Friends by teaming up with a different farm each week and building a 2-course $24 lunch menu from that farm’s offerings. Up this week is Phillips Farms with a lunch featuring an apricot salad [...]

Happy 1st Anniversary to Roberto Patriarca’s East Village pasta house Spina (175 Avenue B). In celebration, they’ll be offering a week of special menus and wines from June 21 – 26, capped off by a four-course Magnum dinner on June 26. To accompany the anniversary menus, we hear Spina will be uncorking some pretty special and unique wines. [...]

The French culinary group Omnivore will be holding its 2nd annual food festival in New York on June 4 and 5. Several of the events will take place at the artsy, eclectic Invisible Dog event space in Boreum Hill, Brooklyn. There will be demonstrations for the public ($30), and some for the trade ($45 including wine). On Saturday, June [...]