For "twelve delicious years," Taste of the Lower East Side has been hosted by the Grand Street Settlement to raise money for their programs and services that serve low-income residents of the Lower Eats Side. This year, dozens of popular LES restaurant... »
Even though many bartenders are storytellers, writers, poets, and playwrights on the side, it's rare for a group of them to get together and build cocktails inspired by bits of verse. At the National Poetry Month Cocktail Celebration this weekend at Ba... »
Thursday (April 19) Poetry & Cocktails Thursday April 19th, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Celebrate National Poetry Month with the Academy of American Poets, Back Forty, and poet Bob Holman. Bob will recite a series of poems with a... »
[Photograph: Kathy YL Chan] Housemade chocolate babka is sold by the slice at Back Forty West, just a $3 apiece. It's generously cut and fairly close to perfection. Most of the time it comes plain: dark chocolate melted within... »
Here are five restaurants offering Passover Seder meals that still have availability as of Sunday evening, April 1st. But reservations aren't slowing down, so book your seating fast before it's too late. »
Food events in New York from March 15th to March 21st. »
We have eaten a lot of fried food in our day, but Yerba Buena Perry's watermelon fries ($7) are in a league of their own. »
Bar impresario Ravi DeRossi (Death and Company, Mayahuel) comes to Carroll Gardens with Bourgeois Pig Brooklyn, the second outpost of the East Village original. The bordello chic trappings—think gilded ceilings and velvet throne chairs—complement an Ol... »
Opened in 2002, Lil' Frankies in the East Village started serving Neapolitan-ish pizzas in Manhattan before anyone could have even predicted the current wave of Neapolitan pizzerias that the city is awash in.There's some pretty stiff competition for Ne... »
Blue Bottle Coffee Co.'s newest shop—no doubt one of many more planned in the era of venture-capital-infused cappuccinos—brings a coffee experience to New York City that it (and most anywhere else in this country) hasn't often seen before. »
Peter Hoffman didn't have to look far for ideas when he set out to revamp his Soho farm-to-table institution, Savoy. Drawing the style and name from his East Village restaurant Back Forty, Hoffman is opening Back Forty West for breakfast and lunch tomo... »
Thursday (February 16) Washington and Lincoln's Dinner Tables Saturday February 18th, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sample historically-minded foods from the tables of Washington and Lincoln. Chicken Fricasse and brandy-and-fruit "election cake" will be served alon... »
Chances are high that if you're in any semblance of a relationship (real or imaginary), the days ahead are going to be filled with some combination of hand-holding, adoring stares, and breathless whispers. A guy or gal is bound to get hungry after so m... »
Chef Amanda Cohen is not a vegetarian herself, but she has been providing for New Yorkers clamoring for chlorophyll and crucifers for years. »
Try mac 'n cheese this weekend at a Brooklyn Takedown. [Photo: Robyn Lee] Thursday(January 26) Feeding Gotham: New York City Markets, 1790-1960 Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Lecture Historian Gergely Baics discusses the history of N... »
