[Photo: Kathy Chan] The teas brewed to order at Amanazi Tea in Tribeca might be great, but please do not go for the boba drinks. The advertisements and windows displays might lead you believe one thing, but your taste...
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From top left: Boston Shaker, Hawthorn Strainer, jigger, juicer, bar spoon, muddler, Libbey 3777. We've given you three cocktail recipes in our Mix it Up columns so far—but a fat lot of good they'll do if you don't have...
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In the space formerly occupied by not-so-great Thai restaurant Spice has opened Recess. The cafe offers abundant seating, glass windows facing out onto University Place, air conditioning on full blast during these hot weeks, and fro-yo on the menu....
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First, spoonfuls of soft black jelly. Then, squiggles of sweetened condensed milk. A pour of chilled coffee. Shake, shake. A scoop of ice. Pour in the plastic cup, and top off with whipped cream. The final product is a...
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Cherry coke tastes a lot better when it comes from a man who just walked out of an Edward Hopper painting, especially when your palate is much more accustomed to Coke Cherry Zero. At Lexington Candy Shop, it's a...
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The first time I went to Stand two years ago, the burger experience was just okay, and worse was their thin pistachio milkshake, which contained shards of inedible pistachio shell (at least I knew it had real pistachios in...
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Food physicist Dave Arnold and Jean Georges pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini held court last night at the Dining & Libation Society's speakeasy event. The human crush made it difficult to chat casually with the mixologists, but in spite of...
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My first sip of Ovaltine was at a bakery in Chinatown. I liked it enough to buy my own jar of the powdered drink mix, but I would still buy a cup from a Chinese bakery in those times...
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Chocolate matcha latte and kuromitsu matcha latte My love (or is it a need?) for coffee knows no bounds. But in the evenings, only tea will do the trick. Luckily, my client's office is strategically placed right in between...
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It's hard to believe but Niki Russ Federman, the fourth-generation manager of that venerable temple of appetizing, Russ & Daughter’s, cannot stomach the taste of Dr.Brown’s Cel-Ray soda. Yes, it's true. I discovered this startling nugget of information while...
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