Rugby World Cup at Tuck Shop
I’m gonna keep this short & sweet. Tuck Shop on St. Marks Place will be showing the 2011 Rugby World Cup match (Australia V Russia) at 10:15 tonight, immediately followed by the Aussie Rules Football Grand Final (Collingwood V Geelong) at Midnight. Rugby, footie & meat pies… What could go wrong? Tuck Shop: 115 Saint Marks […]
Avenue C Braces For Impakt
Avenue C, an area of the East Village packed with quaint, tree-lined streets bars, is getting ready for more of the same. Oktoberfest starts today & Zum Schneider opened at 11am for the celebrations to start. So put on your lederhosen & get ready to hear live music and drink a lot of beer. If […]
Food News
The Edi & the Wolf team talk Austrian Oktoberfest. Village Voice. The Bean gets evicted to make way for Starbucks #188 via NY Times. 9th Street Block Party this Saturday via EVGrieve. Buying Fish In Chinatown & Beyond via The Lo-Down. Life Cafe closing for good? EVGrieve.
Cooking Demo At Affaire
Last Thursday, Nearsay teamed up with French restaurant/lounge Affaire to host a mussels cooking demo & meetup for local bloggers. Located in a sprawling space that once housed #1 Chinese & China 1, Affaire still has some remnants of it’s Asian past while the menu is classic French.
Wok+Wine
I had the extreme pleasure of bringing my Mom to a Foodspotting and Wok+Wine event held at the offices of Luminary Labs in Tribeca. I didn’t know anything about W+W, but I’m an avid Foodspotting user, so I wasn’t going to pass this opportunity up. After doing a bit of research online, I found out that W+W […]
Zum Schneider Turns 11
Despite the rain yesterday, the gang at Zum Schneider celebrated their 11th birthday in grand style. I passed by around 7pm & everyone was rocking Bavarian attire & tending to the suckling pig that was spinning quite happily outside. I returned after 10pm from the Wok+Wine event & said pig was still roasting. Inside, the […]
‘Tattoosday’ At Bondi Road
Bondi Road, the Australian restaurant & LES cousin of The Sunburnt Cow has launched ‘Tattoosday’. Under the tagline; “show us your ink and we’ll buy you a drink!” you get a free drink on Tuesdays if you show the bartender your tattoo. Bondi Road also features an Endless Raw Bar on Thursdays for $20 & a pretty impressive burger […]
East Village Underrepresented At Restaurant Week
Restaurant Week (July 11th-24th, so technically not a week) is normally at time when I get giddy like a kid in a candy store, excited by all the possibilities of food I could otherwise not afford. $24.07 gets you lunch & $35.00 will mean a full 3 course dinner, what’s not to love? So, looking […]
All You Can Eat Local Oysters
Jimmy’s No. 43 on 7th Street will be hosting an all you can eat local oyster bash from 5-10pm this Thursday. They will be serving a wide range of both wild & farmed Long Island oysters including ‘Naked Cowboys’ provided by Blue Isle Oysters. Drinks cost extra, but you can enjoy any one of the […]
Taste Of Nolita Recap
Last week I attended the Taste Of Nolita Food Festival (previously mentioned here) which ran from Wednesday til Friday & featured 7 restaurants & discounts at a few bars in Nolita. Luckily I had the chance to go, so I figure I’d let you know my thoughts on the event. Things kicked off at Asia […]
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