Food

The New Amsterdam Market hosts its fourth annual Wintermarket this weekend, the last event of 2011, and it promises to be festive, fun and full of fish. Organizers tell us this Sunday's event will be the largest Wintermarket yet, with...

Each month, on the second Wednesday, we post this report of restaurants in the 10002 ZIP code that scored 28 points or more on their most recent health department inspections, the equivalent of “C” grades under the city’s rating...

Before prohibition, people who wanted to drink beer at home just went to the corner watering hole and got a bucket of tap beer to go. Those days are long gone. Bottles and cans are now the norm for...

Here's your Monday afternoon Lower East Side food news: Thursday evening, Clandestino will be launching a home-grown beer, "Easy Blonde," from local start-up Alphabet City Brewing Company. See details here. Sons of Essex rolls out their new brunch menu -- plus...

Regular customers of "Dora," the year-old coffee shop at 221 East Broadway, have noticed a few changes lately. In September, Jamie Rogers bought the business from Nicole Slaven, who had named the shop for her great grandmother, Dora Cohen. ...

The last night of 2011 is three weeks from Saturday. Have you bought your noisemakers yet? No? Well, no problem, you can always get those at the last minute. But what you can't get at the last minute is...

It’s hard to argue with Frank Prisinzano’s successful restaurant concept: serve good, fresh, simple Italian food at reasonable prices, while keeping a serious wine list on hand for your less price-sensitive customers. This keeps traffic flowing to his East...

Here's a midweek look at local restaurant headlines: Papaya Food, a Japanese and Thai fusion restaurant, opened this week at 249 Broome St. Lunch specials include chicken, salmon, beef and shrimp teriyaki bento boxes, as well as combos of sushi rolls. (TLD...

Trinity's Services and Food for the Homeless (SAFH), a non profit that is connected to Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish (9th St. and Ave. B), is throwing its annual fund-raising holiday party, the "Cool Yule," tomorrow night at...

Here's a midweek look at food and restaurant headlines around the neighborhood: A visit to 87 E. Houston St. finds that Bowery Coffee has transformed a vintage lighting store into "a cozy, old-timey place that reinspires the notion of having...