Wine & Spirits Magazine first New York tasting event
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What wines are the most popular in today’s restaurant scene? What are America’s best sommeliers putting on their lists and what wines are up-and-coming? Taste through the “Top of the List” as W&S celebrates its first New York event based on the 20th Annual Restaurant Poll, its best selling issue. The tasting happens at City Winery—the new live music space that holds the distinction of being Manhattan’s only winery. Read More . . .
Staff Meal: Franny’s
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Sometimes it's good, most of the time it's bad. Whatever it is, you have to eat it. The Staff Meal.
This week we sneak another peek at the family meal at Franny's in Park Slope where even the staff meal is seasonal. These guys love to rub it in when they eat well. "How ya like me now, rest. peeps!? Suckas!" says our anonymous tipper. This seriously looks too good to be true. We can't deal.
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Allergy Schmallergy
category: The Waitstation, Featured5 comments
To those of you with food allergies, on behalf of the entire restaurant industry, I would like to say that our sympathy goes out to you. Really. It must be difficult to have to be constantly aware of what you cannot put into your body but what also appears on just about every menu across America: eggs, dairy, peanuts, shellfish, wheat gluten, garlic, sulfites, etc. You can certainly imagine how difficult it is to be us: offering a variety of delicious options, unfortunately all having been prepared with normal people in mind. But to those of you who dine out and claim to have a food allergy because you don’t care to eat something for one reason or another, I would like to offer a gentle explanation of the havoc you wreak in our establishments.
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Bouley
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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…
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This week we ventured to BOULEY owned by DAVID BOULEY and this is what we found.
HOW BAD IS THE FAMILY MEAL?
When available not bad, but sparse
HOW’S THE CLIENTELE?
Up scale, polite, but also a good percentage are foreign.
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