Tag: manhattan with a twist

Deals & Steals: Wine Kloud Brings You the Best

Deals & Steals: Wine Kloud Brings You the Best

With the holidays unfolding right before our eyes, it’s common to panic about gifts. Wine Kloud, a recently launched website by co-founders Darian Wilson and Rich Martini, is a consumer-centric site that curates that best deals on wine around the country. Need a last minute hostess gift? Looking for a fabulous wine to pair with your Friendsgiving stuffing? Wine Kloud […]

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The Best Soup Dumplings In New York? Head Uptown!

The Best Soup Dumplings In New York? Head Uptown!

Soup dumplings are quietly creeping up in the culinary scene to become the new Cronut. If you haven’t noticed, it’s one of those dishes that gets a mention every time the gang gathers to grab Chinese food. Everyone has their favorite and folks flock from all over to try the latest incarnation. Well, if you haven’t ventured north of Canal Street […]

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We Adore Adoro Lei

We Adore Adoro Lei

Remember the kids’ game Pizza Party? Mixing and matching toppings for your pizza was fun even when it was just cardboard, so imagine how much more fun and exciting it becomes with actual pizza at your disposal. Unusual and intriguing combinations of toppings adorn the Neapolitan pizzas at Adoro Lei. The SoHo pizzeria opened its doors in January 2015 with […]

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Dish Envy, Where All Your Food Dreams Come True

Dish Envy, Where All Your Food Dreams Come True

Do you have a running list of restaurants on the notes section of your phone that you are constantly updating? Do you endlessly read reviews, or text your friends who are “in the know” for restaurant recommendations and what to eat at said restaurants? Do you refuse to let your dining companions touch their plates until you have meticulously photographed […]

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Drinking the Devil’s Acre

Drinking the Devil’s Acre

When I received word that I was invited to a book reading about San Francisco and its cocktails, I couldn’t have been more elated. I spent a year in the historic city; ironically enough, as a bartender. I slang cocktails and poured fancy wine for eight hours a day. After work, my hipsters friends and I would hit up the […]

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Behind the Scene at NY Champagne Week

Behind the Scene at NY Champagne Week

Some call it magic in a glass. It can be sweet or dry. Its bubbles have been known to change your mood immediately. And once a year for three years straight, New York City devotes an entire week to the magical drink known as champagne. The week long champagne lifestyle party celebrates the best that champagne has to offer and […]

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NYC’s 3rd Annual Champagne Week Soliders on with Burgers & Bubbles

NYC’s 3rd Annual Champagne Week Soliders on with Burgers & Bubbles

Once a year, a magical week descends on New York City that transforms ordinary employees of restaurants, hotels, wine and liquor distributors, and the media into smiling, glass clinking human beings. What fashion week is to models, designers, photographers, and even regular old New Yorkers, champagne week is to anyone even tangentially connected to the hospitality industry. On day three of […]

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Mulino a Vino: The Windmill That Runs on Wine

Mulino a Vino: The Windmill That Runs on Wine

Mulino a Vino, a clever play on Italian words, literally means “a windmill that runs on wine.”  More notably, Mulino a Vino is an anomaly because it is a restaurant in the Meatpacking District where you don’t hate everything – in fact, it is just the opposite. This basement wine bar vibe is delightfully enhanced by the spectacular menu and […]

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Tragedy, Grief, and Self-Discovery in a Time of War

Tragedy, Grief, and Self-Discovery in a Time of War

How do we move on from the past? How do we define ourselves after tragedy? Pam Jenoff, author of the popular novel, The Kommandant’s Girl, explores these issues in her new book, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach. In 1941, Adelia Monteforte, an Italian Jewish teenager, is suddenly put on a boat and sent to America for safety. Alone in a new country, […]

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Sunrise, Sunset: A Room with a Different View

Sunrise, Sunset: A Room with a Different View

One constant that occurs every day is the rising and setting of the sun. However, that same constant changes each day: no sunrise or sunset is the same. Each new day is a new beginning. In Sunrise, Sunset: 52 Weeks of Awe & Gratitude, book publicist and writer, Kim Weiss, uses photography to share this message. “When I see the sun rise, […]

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