Brought to you by the fine folks at Tasting Table and Thrillist – Martini Week is calling all sophisticated yet frugal drinkers. Visit top bars as they offer $10 martini cocktails, featuring premium vodka and gin, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. nightly. Check out the list of participating places here!
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Chez Lucienne, the Michelin rated French restaurant in Harlem is still assimilating – the heart that is the food is authentic (and delicious!), but the façade is in a state of flux as the newcomer tries to settle into its new home. (more…)
Celebrate the season with French home cooking!
Visit the new Phaidon Pop-up Store Thursday, December 10th at 6:30PM for an exclusive talk and book signing with Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate & Zucchini, who adapted the English edition of I Know How to Cook.
I Know How to Cook is the first English translation of France’s cookery bible, Je sais cuisiner by Ginette Mathiot. First published in 1932 it includes over 1,400 classic French recipes that have now been updated for the modern kitchen.
What could be better than home cooked French food? Having someone else cook it, of course. Selections from the book and wine will be served. Yowser!
This is the perfect gift for all the Francofiles on your holiday list (or anyone who loves good food for that matter)!
Thursday, December 10th at 6:30pm
100 Wooster Street (between Prince and Spring streets)
New York, NY 10012
212.925.1900
To table cloth or not to table cloth that is the question buzzing around today. Let us weigh in -
Abso-friggin-lutely!
(Oh, pardon my casual ghettoization of the English language while I bemoan the casualization of America for a moment) The food is delicious, the atmosphere lovely, but sitting at a naked table and trying not to stare at its nether regions lying bare – what were you thinking Allegretti? Steve Cuozzo of the Post blames it on the general trend of “creeping casualization…clublike zoos…tacky “grazing” menus, overgrown lounges and unbearable noise.”
He’s right. It is tacky. Recently, I dined at a lovely Michelin rated French restaurant. The food was superb, but the tables were covered in white plastic table cloths. A French restaurant with no white linens or worse, white plastic! Get my smelling salts I’m feeling faint. This is quite frankly a mortal sin unless there is crawfish and BBQ somewhere in the vicinity and no, neither were present. This faux pas was topped only by the paper napkin sitting sadly in my lap. Oh what have we come to, America. Why the slow degradation of dining decorum? You’ve taken away all sense of dress decorum now you attack a veritable stronghold – upscale restaurant dining? What will go next? I say revolt. Okay, not too much revolt because then our beloved upscale restaurants may cave, so what are we to do? What every girl is an expert at doing and what every guy denies doing – silently sit peeved and pretend to like it (while oh course, you await the inevitable plastic cup and paper plate to arrive.) Oh and it will, yes my friends, it will but it shall be called eco-friendly.
David Rockwell is the Busby Berkeley of culinary choreography! The design guru reinterpreted traditional kitchenware with a dynamic, multi-dimensional installation for New York Taste. Who knew paper plates could be so cool?
Imagine going to a dinner party at Carmen Miranda’s house: a chotzke collection that rivals the most astute junk collecting granny, a trippy tropical kaleidoscopic color scheme, kitschy décor, terracotta tiled floors, hand-painted signs, and good food served by an extremely attentive staff topped off with bananas flambé. Welcome to Esperanto!
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Check out the highlights from the Chocolate Show by clicking the crazy clown!
The Third Annual Cook. Eat. Drink. Live. Festival returns November 6-8th to feature culinary celebrities, tastings, shopping, and more will take place at Chelsea’s The Tunnel/La Venue.
Cook. Eat. Drink. Live. is a lively, interactive, holiday-themed event that showcases new food products, celebrity chefs, wineries, cocktails, cookbook authors, mixologists, and popular restaurants. In addition to the tastings, guests can do holiday shopping with both purveyors and wineries, as well as have the opportunity to purchase gift certificates to over fifty of New York City’s popular eateries.
Some highlights from this year’s Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.: (more…)
Join New York culinary editor Gillian Duffy and more than 40 of the city’s finest restaurants for the 11th annual New York Taste, an evening to benefit City Harvest.
Participants at this year’s event will include Alain Allegretti, Dan Barber, Andrew Carmellini of Locanda Verde, Alex Guarnaschelli of Butter, Morimoto, Michael White of Marea, Zak Pelaccio and many more.
Click here to purchase tickets.
VIP TICKET PRICE: $250 plus 8.875% sales tax
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET PRICE: $175 plus 8.875% sales tax
Skylight
275 Hudson Street (between Spring and Dominick Streets)
New York, NY 10013
