Ok, I’ll admit it right off the bat — before October of last year, I had no idea what poutine was.  I was in Standings Bar in the East Village with Jill and our friend Martin drinking a few pints of Green Flash West Coast IPA and watching my beloved Michigan Wolverines get spanked yet [...]

Just got word this morning that a new outdoor lounge, Palace Gate, is set to open next week at The New York Palace Hotel. The outdoor lounge is set in the hotel’s courtyard. Palace Gate will be serving cocktails, wine and a full bar menu from the kitchen at Gilt. The bar menu will feature [...]

We got word that StirRED, the new lower level lounge at Rouge Tomate, is opening today and that for the entire opening week “your second drink will be on the house.”   Wonder if that applies to drinks 4, 6, 8 and 10, too. Rogue Tomate, the Brussels-based behemoth of a health-conscious restaurant on East 60th, [...]

Saturday I had a chance to visit the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene.  The Flea, which opened for the season last week, is open on Saturdays from 10am-5pm and features 150 vendors selling clothing, antiques, jewelry and food. As NYMag pointed out a couple weeks ago in its ‘Edible Schoolyard’ piece, the Flea has become a new destination [...]

(Welcome back by popular demand our friend and guest writer Kristi)
Disclaimer: the following account of my weekend of gluttony at Yankee Stadium is a true and accurate description of the events that transpired.  This is my story (cue Law & Order music).
Saturday – Yankees v. Indians (4-22 loss):
My friend Keith and I started Saturday [...]

Thrillist writes today that a Gansevoort Hotel has just opened in Turks & Caicos. A visit to the website reveals that the hotel’s restaurant and beach club is none other than Bagatelle, the Meatpacking District brunch spot that’s known to get bumpin’ on Saturdays. The hotel’s spa services are provided by Exhale Spa. This follows [...]

A Hamburger Today brings us a closer look at Flip, the new burger joint that opened yesterday in Bloomingdale’s mid level of the lower level men’s store. And I’m glad they did because now I don’t have to waste my time or money checking it out for myself. So let me set the stage for [...]

You can add Lelabar to the list of reasons we want to move to the West Village.  Andy and I visited this homey, charming wine bar located at Hudson and Leroy this past Sunday…and we didn’t want to leave.  We were at Lelabar for one of their Sunday afternoon guided sommelier tastings.  It was an Austrian [...]

I started to write this before even finishing my Black Label Burger that I had delivered to me at my office from City Burger (for 10% off I should add). I think I may have two bites left (if i take really small bites) and I’m procrastinating cause I don’t want to see it go. [...]

 It looks like my New Year’s resolution didn’t even last a week. After reading all the hooplah over the past month about City Burger’s famed Pat La Frieda Black Label burger, including this rave review by A Hamburger Today, I decided to break down today and give it a shot. I was a bit reluctant to do so after [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to our friend Leena for forwarding us a NYT Diner’s Journal blog post about La Cave des Fondus, a new spot opening today in Soho at Prince and Elizabeth, that gives whole new meaning to the term ‘bottle service.’ Suck on this — wine and beer will be served to customers baby boomers in baby bottles. [...]

We should have known better- arriving at the Sunburnt Cow at prime brunch time on a Sunday… What were we thinking? After learning of the over 1 1/2 hour wait to partake in the biggest Sunday Funday all-you-can-drink brunches/parties in town, we decided to go elsewhere. We were intrigued by the french/chill/islandy music and the [...]

It may not be readily apparent given the name of our blog, but we also love BEER! Maybe our blog would be more aptly named ‘Wined & Dined & Chugged.’ In the past month we hit up the 2nd Annual NYBrewfest at South Street Seaport and then went with our friends Riki, Kristi and Joe to [...]