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| | | | | | I will complete the outing from two posts ago and will go to my Canadian weekend hopefully within a few days. Just bear with me about the latter; I’ll post up in a few days… Pegu’s entrance After having a surprisingly good meal at Kasadela an hour or so earlier, we walked from Alphabet City (it’s... Read More | | | | | | I’m a newcomer to the cocktail revolution. The timing and temperament of my dining habits are such that I’m more likely to have a sit-down meal with wine than to have a liquid dinner at a bar. But the craft and care that goes into the better cocktail menus has started to get my attention, if belate... Read More | | | | | | An acquintance and I tried Pegu Club in Soho the other night. On the 2nd floor of a building off W. Houston, it's dark, elegant, and kind of mysterious. Low tables, couches and chairs line the restaurant. I ordered a Pegu Club cocktail: gin, lime juice, an orange liqueur, and bitters. This is a prof... Read More | | | | | | The bad news: The Bourgeois Pig West, easily the coolest bar on Macdougal Street, is closing after this Saturday, and the East Village location is moving. The good news: Owner Ravi DeRossi says that he and the manager at his other bar, Death & Co., decided yesterday to reopen the West Village lo... Read More | | | | | | Stopping by the Pegu Club for a drink this weekend, we were tantalized by a wickedly delicious cocktail that left us wanting for more. Called the "Poquito Picante" (meaning, a little heat), the gin based drink consists of muddled jalapeno pepper, cilantro & cucumber, cointreau, and le... Read More | | | | | | Forest Hills: The layout for Trader Joe’s coming to 90-30 Metropolitan Avenue. [Forest Hills 72] Midtown West: Sample cuisine from more than 50 restaurants including Aquavit, Buddakan, and Eleven Madison Park at tonight's Taste of the Nation at Roseland Ballroom; tickets are $200 and benefit the f... Read More | | | | | | The Nina Simone, a warm drink served at midtown east lounge Haven (Phil S. Kropoth) By Lauren Epstein An icy cold beer just doesn’t have the same effect during the end of November as it does in July. Luckily, bars have created delectable, hot alcoholic drinks to keep you motivated to leave yo... Read More | | | | | | Cocktail geeks can quibble about which fancy lounge shakes up the most perfect Old Fashioned in town; whether I'm at the Flatiron Lounge, Pegu Club, or Little Branch, they all taste pretty good to me. The boozy concoctions slip down my throat, and before I know it, I am both poorer and hungrier than... Read More | | | | | | I met Celest at Think, one of our favorite casual meet-up spots, for coffee on Saturday afternoon. I wanted to finally see her photos and get the details on her Parisian adventure; she needed to hear the latest on the Italiano (good: he helped me through a recent mouse-spotting crisis at my house/ ... Read More | | | | | | These days New York's finest mixologists seize the fruits of the summer as much as the chefs do... PDT 113 St. Marks Pl., nr. First Ave. (212) 614-0386 Short for "please don't tell," the secret's out about this East Village cocktail den. Connoisseurs collect for Jim Meehan's He... Read More | | | |
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