Posted in Beer, Food, NYC Events, Spirits on Nov 21st, 2012
After months of curious gawkers cruising the windows and hypothesizing on the local blogs as to what exactly this massive project would bloom into, the Strand Smokehouse opened on Broadway in Astoria this weekend. In a former Blockbuster space that really shouldn’t have surprised anyone when it went out of business last year (although I […]
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Nov 12th, 2012
I’ve gone on a tear about Saison before. No, scratch that, I’ve probably penned more romantically-swept-up odes to Saisons than any other beer styles or wine grapes I’ve written about. I can’t help myself. They’ve somehow hooked me deep in the DNA. Perhaps when I visited Jean-Louis Dits of Brasserie à Vapeur he slipped an […]
Posted in NYC Events on Nov 7th, 2012
Good thing. “Too close to call” drinking game was proving exhausting.
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Oct 4th, 2012
Mitt keeps asking me, “Flaherty, when are you going to post your beer lists so I can see what you’ve been up to?” I keep telling him, “Mitt, you need to focus. You’re coming across like a major stiff to the American people.” “I am?,” he asks. “Damn right, buddy. Look, the Mitt I know […]
Posted in Beer, Food, NYC Events on Oct 2nd, 2012
At long last, Astoria now has a craft beer retail shop it can be proud of. (No offense, Euro Market, you do have quite a fine selection of craft beers, but I’m convinced some of your offerings have been on the shelf since Clinton was President). But not just a retail shop: it’s also a […]
Posted in NYC Events on Sep 17th, 2012
A perk of living in Astoria that one must take advantage of at the Greek cafes.
Posted in NYC Events on Sep 8th, 2012
(WARNING: this piece isn’t about wine, beer, or spirits. It’s about heavy shit, like life and death. Yippee!) 6:30 am on Labor Day, I awoke with chest pains. A gorilla apparently decided to park itself on my pectoral muscles. After an hour of trying everything in the book to relieve the pressure, I gave into […]
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Aug 12th, 2012
Our friends, Greg Gallagher and Melissa Jernigan, headed west a few months ago to search out their brewing dreams. They ended up in Russian River, California, and now are spreading the beer gospel with their colleagues at Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub. Last week, they came into town and made a bee-line to our place to meet […]
Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Jul 18th, 2012
In 6 days, The Jewel sets sail on the East River. Its destination? Pure, acid-pounding bliss. Its fuel to get you there? Riesling, and the downright f’in most rocking line-up of music that wise old waterway has ever seen. Ladies and gentlemen, we, your rambunctious crew of merry making ambassadors from Hearth & Terroir, are […]
Posted in NYC Events, Spirits on Jul 13th, 2012
The first four months of being a new parent are sort of like being stuck in slow-moving quicksand. Or as if Han Solo were only half-frozen in the carbonite. You feel your world moving around you, but your focus becomes laser-attuned to that little being now occupying your house, with the apparatuses of baby-rearing strewn […]
Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Jun 19th, 2012
So, we drank some grape juice today. 41 different wines, all from the same, magical grape. I’ll give you one guess… Germany to Austria, Alsace to Canada, and the Finger Lakes to Australia and New Zealand. For the next 94 days, shit. Is. ON. SOR 2012 begins.
Posted in Food, NYC Events, Spirits on Jun 17th, 2012
Slower | Start | Faster To see the full size images, you need to enable javascript in your browser. These awesome pics, by Gabi Porter, are of our recent Manhattan Cocktail Classic event at Hearth: From Farm to Still: NY Spirits and NY Roast Pig. 65 people. 4 courses. 520 Cocktails. In 2 hours. Huge […]
Posted in NYC Events on Jun 15th, 2012
Even after living in NYC for almost 12 years, every time I pass this building, it makes me stop and stare. Its simply magical and for a moment, a brief moment, I float away on the morning breezes of time and find myself mingling with New Yorkers from centuries past. Our cares are one, our […]
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Jun 13th, 2012
Slower | Start | Faster To see the full size images, you need to enable javascript in your browser. Chris Lehault (idrunkthat.com) swung by Terroir | Tribeca to attend our beer event for last month’s Manhattan Cocktail Classic with his camera in tow. Shooting some pics for Serious Eats: Drinks, he was kind enough to pass […]
Posted in Food, NYC Events, Spirits on May 19th, 2012
What’s the date today? Really? Wow. Where did the week go? Oh, right. We’re opening a new wine bar in the next few days…on a railroad track…in the sky…but more on that later. In the meantime, I must close up some loose ends for the Manhattan Cocktail Classic because it went more beautifully than a […]
