I bet you didn’t know that Michael Jordan’s Steak House in Grand Central offers free beer & pretzel tastings from 6-7pm every Wednesday during the Fall.  Taking these craft beer tastings one step further, on November 9th beginning at 6pm, Beer Table Pantry’s Justin Philips will pour some special craft beers when he co-hosts an evening of Old [...]

Yup, it’s National Oyster Day! We’re gonna celebrate with some of those briny bivalves tonight at The Dutch, and we hear we also have to try their oyster sliders.  Over at Atlantic Grill, Blue Fin, Blue Water Grill, Ocean Grill, and Primehouse New York they’re celebrating National Oyster Day with some specials all day, including: $1.50 Deep Cove Oysters (West Coast) [...]

National Scotch Day is upon us. Head over to Primehouse New York or Atlantic Grill Lincoln Center from 5-7pm for a National Scotch Day celebration. They’ll be serving up various Scotch samples along with paired bar bites, all on the proverbial house!  Here are the deets: Primehouse (381 Park Ave. South at 27th St., New York, NY 10016 – [...]

Legendary brunch spot Essex (120 Essex St @ Rivington) is celebrating its 11th anniversary this Saturday night in style with a free open bar from 11:30pm-12:30am. Then from 12:30am til close at 4am all drinks are half-price. If you can’t make it Saturday night, here are a few other reasons to visit Essex soon. Their summer happy hour [...]

Hard to believe Eataly has already been open a year! They’re celebrating their 1st birthday in style and inviting you to join them.  They’ve planned an epic “dine around” dinner featuring 6 of their restaurants, 6 chefs and 6 dishes. On August 31st, Eataly will be hosting 7 groups of 40 people as birthday guests [...]

We embarked on a spontaneously epic food tour of the East Village (specifically the area on and around East 7th Street near 1st Ave — our fave food street in the city) this past Sunday with friends Martin and Josh (aka, NYC Foodie, Foodie Magician).  We wanted to welcome our friend Martin back to NYC [...]

Starting this week, Aquavit is hosting its annual Herring Festival every weekday through June 24th.   Executive chef Marcus Jernmark is preparing a smorgasbord of classic herring dishes along with fare like Swedish meatballs, hot smoked trout and Scandinavian cheeses and breads.  The special herring menu will be served in the bistro from noon til 2:30 PM and [...]

So just in time for this insane heat wave, word comes in today that Jess Latham, the former special events manager at Vanity Fair and the brains behind the Vanity Fair Summer Guide to NYC, has moved on and is now crankin’ out the same guide you’ve come to love as part of Book Report NY together [...]

The chef from one of our favorite wineries in Portugal — Esporão –  will be at Le Cirque tomorrow night as a guest chef to serve up an amazing 6-Course Portuguese Wine Tasting Dinner. Tweet this!

Dylan Prime (62 Laight St; Tribeca) announces the return of the Summer Clambake! Starting tomorrow, Friday, May 27, 2011 they’ll be offering the Clambake, featuring two 1 1/2 lb lobsters, steamers, clams, mussels, potatoes and corn on the cob, all for $39.95/person. It will be offered Friday and Saturday nights and all day Sunday, including during [...]

For those kickin’ it around the city this Memorial Day weekend, you’ve got some pretty good eating and drinking options around town. Let’s start at Essex (120 Essex St) on the Lower East Side where Saturday night they are throwin’ their Annual Memorial Day Weekend Mussel Festival. From 7pm-1am, $45 will get you all-you-can-devour mussels and all-you-can-drink [...]

From tonight’s James Beard Awards Gala to a Wine Dinner in the Dark, there’s plenty of great food and drink happpenings all over the city this week. Here’s our best bets for some serious wining and dining: MONDAY, MAY 9th: Bistro Lamazou, the new spot from the same owners of the eponymous cheese & sandwich shop (344 3rd [...]

May is Soave Month at Eataly. For those (including myself) that haven’t heard of Soave, it is a dry white wine (pronounced So-Ah-Ve) from the Veneto region in northeast Italy, principally around the city of Verona. Soave will be exclusively featured in all the Eataly restaurants and at a dedicated Soave bar in Eataly’s La [...]

Scoop St. has been putting together some pretty cool neighborhood food and drink crawls around town. Next up is one that’s near and dear to our hearts — the East Side Craft Beer Crawl. This craft beer tour of the East Side of Manhattan takes you to six beer bars, including several of our favorites around town like [...]

For those who want to get an early start on the annual salute to the Mexican army’s 1862 near miraculous defeat of French forces, we hear Vamos, the contemporary Mexican on 1st Avenue near 20th Street, will start celebrating on Tuesday, May 3rd with a Cinco de Mayo Warm-Up Dinner – all anyone can eat of the restaurant’s tacos [...]