Work is proceeding nicely in this Winter of No Snow on the new tank room at the Hudson-Chatham Winery in Ghent, Columbia County. Go here for a Facebook album of photos detailing the project. Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks [...]
Tam and his cronies drinking in the opening scene of the poem. Fans of Cutty Sark whisky who are interested in scoring a bottle of a new limited edition expression may have to go to unusual lengths to do so. Adrington Group, which owns the Scotch whisky brand, has launched Tam o’Shanter blended whisky but [...]
Rats! All these years I’ve been making my martinis the wrong way. No, not that endless and unwinnable argument over proportions of gin or vodka to dry vermouth. This is about stirring a martini. No, not that endless and unwinnable argument over clockwise or counterclockwise. I speak here of the latest piece of scientific research [...]
• TV game show host Pat Sajak admitted in an interview with ESPN2 that he and longtime eye candy Vanna White used to knock back numerous drinks during breaks in taping their “Wheel of Fortune” show. “Our dinner breaks would be 2½ hours long while they drove in new cars and boats and gazebos and [...]
Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks Events Calendar.
Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks Events Calendar.
ALBANY — Time is running out to purchase tickets for Friday night’s 8th annual “Taste of Compassion.” Tickets for the fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Upstate New York/Vermont Chapter are available online or by calling (518) 474-5877 at $75 each, or $65 for persons 35 and under. The event will begin at 7 [...]
ALBANY — Most people don’t think a gastropub is complete unless it has a full liquor license. Now, the Capital City Gastropub does. The restaurant, which opened last September, had been operating with a limited drinks menu. Now, it has received its liquor license from the state and is offering a full range of cocktails, [...]