Leave the flasks at home, New York moviegoers! Last August, Gov. Cuomo passed a law that allows movie theaters with restaurants to serve booze as well, making a trip to the cinema that much more appealing. Now, AMC Theaters tells The New York Post that they are considering equipping their eight theaters in Read More
Here Come the Stories of the Hurricane
"Pretty much anything they can get their hands on," said Matt Barclay at Park Slope's Bierkraft in answer to The Observer's question about what types of beer people were picking up in anticipation of Hurricane Irene.
The rush is, indeed, on at some of the city's tonier beer and wine stores, as news of the storm's approach rises toward an ursine belch. Read More
Coney Island's reputation for iconic shtick as big business just received a highbrow boost, as Coney Island Brewing Company celebrated the beginning of their second year of business and the operation of a fully-licensed in-house brewing system, with the cutting of the world's smallest brewery opening ribbon (a piece of Red Vine licorice, naturally). The event had the air Read More
Gothamist posted pictures today taken by blogger Harlem Hybrid of the long-abandoned Taystee Cake factory on West 125th Street, and it's evident that developers will have a long way to go in order to transform the deteriorating building into a brewery and space for creative industry tenants. Read More
A big-time private investment will bring two new commercial developments to a stretch of West 125th Street that could include the first brewery in Harlem since Prohibition. Read More
Can a newspaper with an editorial staff of 15 people sustain a bar by itself? The answer, we strongly suspect, is yes, as a 5,000-square-foot watering hole is set to open in the New York Observer Building. Moreover, the New York Beer Company will serve only local fare, much like the little salmon paper, making Read More
A beshorted Mario Batali, purple socks tucked into orange Crocs, barreled toward a makeshift podium in a corner of Birreria, the new Eataly brewpub 15 stories above the Flatiron, on its invitation-only opening night Thursday.
He grabbed an orange from a huge tub on the way and placed it on the podium.
"This is the first Read More
Somewhere along the line, beer became as viable an option as wine for something to bring to a dinner party in New York. So be it.
Now what? Faux pas await you, ones you'd never find with wine.
For one thing, wine has labels to give even the cheapest hooch the veneer of respectability. No one ever Read More
Finding and drinking beer has never been much of a chore, but The Observer certainly welcomes and applauds any and all efforts to make the process easier. With that in mind, we point to What's on Tap?, a mobile app that allows users to locate nearby craft beers, find beer-related events and more.
Graphic designer Read More
The habits of New York craft beer drinkers owe an inestimable debt to ... California. The Golden State birthed the craft beer movement in the United States; it incubated the heavily hopped style that has come to define American craft beer more than any other; and it laid the template for that thankfully ubiquitous of Read More
95 First Avenue
Claustrophobics have long been culled from the East Village, so no one will blink an eye at a 700-square-foot restaurant with portions to match.
Catching the small-plate trend, a new oyster and craft beer bar is opening in Little India, where they've already managed to fit an entire subcontinent worth of cuisine into Read More
So, we've already established that Williamsburgers hate chain stores, particularly the new Duane Reade on their beloved Bedford Avenue, which is locked in a deathmatch with a mom-and-pop pharmacy across the street. We have also established that The New York Times is somehow ignorant of Brooklyn, the most populous borough in its Read More
Long Island has in the last year become a tender hub of nanobreweries: As many as four are in operation or will be in operation by the middle of 2011. Two of those distribute in the city (which itself hosts no nanobreweries, as far as I was able to find—if I missed one, please let Read More
If you’ve been reading The Hophead this year, you know I focus more on the back stories of beers and the people behind them than on the tastes (go elsewhere, please, for serious disquisition on mouthfeel and bouquet—I don’t claim to be a critic). I seek to report on the influencers of what we Read More
"My father's a statistician," said Jen Schwertman on the Friday night before Thanksgiving. She was in the front booth of an after-work bar in the financial district, just off the 1 line, talking over the labored small talk of men in loosened ties and the women in pencil skirts playing defense. She was sipping a Sierra Read More
