- Dear Winnie’s: We Loved You, You Bastion of Kryptonite Cocktail Sloppiness Friends. Friends Friends Friends. We know times change. Bars come and go, people move on, life changes, we grow up. Time marches on. But we thought, naively of course, that Winnie’s would always be there. That we would always be able to return to recapture our […]
- A Literary Map of Manhattan The New York Times Book Review has created A Literary Map of Manhattan: an interactive site where you can roam freely to discover where characters from your favorite New York City novels “lived, worked, played, drank, walked, and looked at ducks.” Once you’ve discovered where exactly, from the northern tip of the island to the […]
- Art and Martinis: These Are the Prettiest Walls of New York Last night, after dining with legendary translator Gregory Rabassa and his most lovely wife Clementine in the heat of our New York Summer, we needed to find a place where we could process all that we had seen and heard. Professor Rabassa had been lively and witty, full of praise for Proust, Thomas Mann, and of […]
- Expecto Patronum, On the Rocks Never too early in the day for Harry Potter tequila jokes.
- Bad ass painting at Le Cheile on 181st Street
- Scouting About for the Little Red Lighthouse in NYC We love to explore New York. Ever since moving way uptown to Washington Heights, we’ve been walking, running, and nosing about to discover the good, the bad, and the ugly about our little neighborhood. When we discovered that there was a little red lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge, we were intrigued. This weekend, we’re going to […]
- This is what the Empire State looks like
- Best Places to Drink in New York City: Peter McManus Cafe Situated on the northwest corner of 19th Street and 7th Avenue is a bar that we wish we could keep a secret. It’s welcoming, it’s not crowded, the food is good and the juke box is always rockin’. The drinks don’t run cheap, but the beer is always cold and the bartender will often throw […]
- Best Places to Drink in NYC: Apotheke Our obsession with Chinatown continues! More than a hundred years ago, if a poor soul wandered down Doyers Street, it was probably the last you ever heard of them. Home of the infamous “Bloody Angle,” Doyers Street was once a murderous, blood-soaked alley full of pirates, demons, and the infamous Bill the Butcher. Now it’s […]
- Thirsty Thursday: The Tin House Martini Developed by Mr. Greg Connolly, a bartender at the Four Seasons Restaurant in NYC, the Tin House Martini is an inventive take on a beloved classic. Hopefully one day we’ll be drinking one while toasting a longed for publication by one of our own in this cherished Portland, Oregon based magazine. The Tin House Martini […]
