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Beer Respect: Quality craft beer abounds in New York, but too often it comes with bad food, or is served by clueless staff.
It's All About the Swizzle: These drinks are not shaken or stirred, but rather " swizzled with a genuine swizzle stick, snapped off a tree native to the Caribbean."
No Cocktails in Rome: "The Italian people don't go to restaurants to drink." Hard liquor is enjoyed after the meal, not before.
Cheap Chains: Midprice chains are trying to lure customers with deep discounts, but these tactics might hurt the restaurants in the long run.
Not Drinking on the Job: Staying sober is a challenge in the booze-soaked hospitality industry.
One Star: That's what Frank Bruni gives Spice Market in the Meatpacking District, which has gotten sloppy since it received three stars from Amanda Hesser.
Beekeepers Ball: On Monday night at Water Taxi Beach, all sorts of bee fans came out to celebrate bees and fight to legalize beekeeping in New York City.
A Good Biryani: Great biryani is hard to find in New York, but a few places take the South Asian rice dish seriously.
Bklyn Larder: The new shop on Flatbush Avenue sells prepared food that you would be proud to serve.
Bold Gin: Gin with swagger goes well with tonic.
Weekend in Long Island: The book "Long Island Wine Country" can help you plan a wine tasting excursion.
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Re: Story #1- I find it to be an equally pervasive problem that restaurants that serve good to great food still think it's acceptable to have this insipid beer list: heineken, corona, amstel light, sam adams, stella, bud light, and maybe becks.
Becks and Sam are decent beers, but come on. I went to Ruth's Chris in Atlantic city and i think the above was, verbatim, their beer list. Imagine if they just had a couple of sutter home's, yellow tails, and kendall-jackson's on their wine list. they'd be laughed out of town! it's time for good restaurants to start spending close to, if not as much, time crafting a good beer list as they do their wine cellar.
mr guy at 11:50AM on 06/24/09
Mr. Guy nails it. In fact you can go to most high end restaurants and be served beers that are laughably bad.
bobbob at 12:36PM on 06/24/09