Don’t pack away your red-white-and-blue quite yet: July brings another reason to get patriotic… if you’re French, that is. Monday, July 14th is Bastille Day – and in honor of the Gallic holiday Financier Patisserie is rolling out a tricolor confection for the week that will have you singing La Marseillaise. La Coupe Fruit Route d’Eté is a parfait layered […]

July is never a bland month. It may be sticky, sunny and unbearably hot, but it’s rarely boring. Fireworks, BBQs and roof parties keep New Yorkers on their toes. And while summer fetes like these usually bring to mind cold beer, Pinnacle Vodka is pushing for more cocktail shakers than coolers at your next clambake. Earlier this week saw the vodka […]

When most of us set goals, we keep them in mental lists that keep us up at night. When the Japanese have something to strive for, they reach for a Daruma doll, a wishing talisman shaped like a small, round bearded man. If you want all your hopes to come true, you color in one of his eyes. Then, every […]

If your only idea of Swedish cuisine is Ikea’s meatballs, you’ll be happy to know there’s a whole lot more to the Nordic country’s culinary offering. Not that there’s anything wrong with Ikea meatballs – it’s one of the only reasons I put up with the place. New Yorkers gathered at Rustico Cooking (one of the top HQs for cooking […]

Gourmands, their clients and guests, gathered earlier this week at the 79th Street Boat Basin for the fifth annual Saveur magazine Summer BBQ – a food and tasting show of epic proportions. Editor-in-chief James Oseland hosted a bevy of top chefs from Manhattan to New Orleans and guests shelled out $93 for tickets to gain access to unlimited original dishes, creative […]

The bros of NYC and their gal pals gathered on Saturday for what promised to be the best day of their lives. Thrillist, the digital lifestyle website for men, held its second annual Best Day of Your Life (so… second best day of your life?) – a live gathering of the site’s readers and followers. The stakes were high as the […]

Kahlua – the old familiar coffee-and-rum liqueur – is doing things differently this summer. And it wants you to, too. Earlier this week – within the decks of the the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum no less – was the launch of the Kahlua Summer Shake-up Movie Blend Series, in partnership with New York magazine and Vulture, which will make its […]

Japanese pop art and electro beats were rocking the Meatpacking District last week where music producer Rob Fusari (a.k.a. 8 Bit of Cary Nokey) collaborated with artist Zane Fix to present “Hanging from the Chandelier” at the Stray Kat gallery (459 W. 14th Street). If there had been any chandeliers in the garage-turned-art space, the crowd would certainly have been hanging […]

If you think sports bars are to good food as oil is to water, you might want to reconsider. Bounce Sporting Club, a popular sporty booze joint with locations on W. 21st and E. 73rd streets, has joined up with Executive Chef Sean Olnowich to release a summer menu that’s pretty impressive. The new menu is extensive and peppered with […]

A celebration ain’t no thang without bubbles in a glass. Just ask Toulouse-Lautrec, Jay-Z (except if it’s Cristal) and Dan Gurney. The stuff is even used to christen new ships. The popping cork’s long-standing relationship with sophistication, festivities and the nautical highlife played on the scene at Central Park’s Boat Pond earlier this week, where Italian sparking wine Altaneve held […]