Beer Fit For A King, At Proletariat
This unassuming little hideaway has thoroughly modern ambitions on par with some of the city’s best beverage programs.
East Village
Chefs We’re Watching: King Phojanakong
We revisit a Chinatown tour we took a few years back with the new Jimmy’s No. 43 chef.
Finding Wine: Now There’s An App For That
This new shop’s app lets you sip and rate, then suggests bottles you’ll likely like.
Where to Drink Sake in Manhattan and Brooklyn
New Yorkers now have access to “extreme small-batch varieties” of sake at venues across the city.
Each Sunday, This Cocktail Glass Is Half Full — With Coffee
Given the cutting-edge caliber of craft coffee and cocktails, it’s not surprising that there’s now a way to indulge in both at the same time.
Cassoulet Cookoff Returns to Jimmy’s No. 43 on January 11
This winter, Jimmy’s No. 43 is stoking the fires of the ongoing cassoulet controversy with their seventh annual Cassoulet Cookoff benefiting GrowNYC’s Local Grains Project.
Raising (Food On) the Roof at the Earth School
At an East Village elementary, students mind their peas.
A Cocktail Writer Walks Into a Bar
At Kara Newman’s Think.Drink events, pros like Talia Baiocchi of Punch magazine read their original works out loud.
Rice Farmers Put Down Risotto Roots in the East Village
When New Yorkers think Italian fare, they typically think pasta or pizza—but one little restaurant in the East Village is looking to change that. Opened this spring by a Verona-based family of farmers, it’s got just about one thing on the menu: rice.
A Café That Serves Only Water
The drink on tap at Molecule isn’t wine or beer, but pure water.
Brew Ah-Ha: Hearth’s David Flaherty is Ready to Pit His Beer Menu Against the Wine List
One man’s quest to convince pappardelle eaters to order not a glass of Barolo but a bottle of beer.
FROM OUR RECIPE ARCHIVES: Joe Wilfer’s Tom & Jerry
The Tom & Jerry–a frothy, rich Christmas-time drink akin to eggnog–was, according to cocktail historian David Wondrich, created in the early 1850s by famed mixologist Jerry Thomas. As legend goes, Thomas refused to make them until after the first snowfall. It may not be Christmas yet, but the snow has fallen, people, so ready your mixers!
