Market Table
category: Inside Scoop0 comments
You asked us for it, so we had to deliver. The idea behind ‘The Inside Scoop’ is to bring those burning questions that we all have about other establishments to light. Team Shiftdrink put their necks on the line so you could have the most up-to-date information available. Dig in while it’s still fresh… Read More . . .
Guide To Restaurant Behavior
category: The Waitstation0 comments
Balancing two coffee cups and a creamer in one hand and a bowl of melting butter and international jellies in the other, I blink away the sweat running into my eyes on an unseasonably hot New York City morning. I trudge up and down the narrow aisle of the outdoor café—where I have the misfortune of being assigned—refilling coffee for the overpaid, overfed urbanites whose stench of misplaced superiority permeates the still air, and I am possessed with one thought: This is war. Israel has the right idea. When you finish secondary school, everyone is required to serve in the army. If you have all your limbs, both eyes and your olfactory senses are intact, you serve—and there ain’t no gettin’ out of it. The same should be said for the U.S. only here you get drafted into a restaurant. Waiter, busboy, dishwasher, line cook—every rank should be filled with civilians.
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Bar of the Month : Pegu Club
category: Featured0 comments
Created by the team behind Flatiron lounge, ZincBar and mixologist Audrey Saunders, Pegu Club an upstairs cocktail joint was born.The name plays tribute to a storied late 19th century British Officers club in Burma.
The house cocktails made with all fresh juices and ingredients reflect a master of the craft at play.Pegu club is a heaven for cocktail Connoisseurs with cocktails that are creative and decadent.
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Franny’s
category: Restaurants & Bars1 comments
Brooklyn has undergone a culinary renaissance in the past ten years since I’ve lived here. I was thinking a lot about this over a recent dinner at Franny’s in Park Slope. Manhattanites never used to trek to Brooklyn to dine. It was always vice-versa. But my experience there left me wishing for a local restaurant like Franny’s in my Manhattan neighborhood. From the crowd that filled the dining room on this rainy Monday night, it would seem I wasn’t the only one crossing the river.
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