Austria

Seasonal, Edi & the Wolf and Third Man Chef Wolfgang Ban Chats Wine

Food and wine are natural companions, so I'm polling some of New York's most illustrious chefs to find out what kind of wine they are drinking off and on the job. After establishing they actually drink wine (a surprising number prefer beer!), I'm asking a few questions to find out who's got a pencha ... More >>

Big Reds with Barbecue and More Simple Wine Pairing Advice

Last week, I opened a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to drink with takeout from Fletcher's BBQ. I wasn't really thinking about the pairing, although perhaps "big red and big food" subliminally guided me to pair the Southern Rhône with charred hunks of meat. I'll leave the review of Fletcher's to ou ... More >>

Mini Hot Dogs Hit Manhattan

Yes, after 90 years, the mini hot dog has finally arrived at Union Square -- but without Zippy Sauce. I'm a big fan of the tiny hot dogs found almost exclusively in the Albany area, and have been known to travel to places like Troy, Cohoes, and Schenectady, New York just for a taste. These miniatu ... More >>

I Was So Good On CNN Yesterday

Pungent and informative and so cute I wanted to pinch my cheeks through the screen when I got home and watched it. On CNN International, I was the featured guest brought on to prognosticate about the Oscar nominations, which are coming this Thursday like a whole other Christmas morning.

Orchestra of Exiles

Europeans Are the World's Biggest Boozers

Is it really a surprise that the World Health Organization and the European Commission found that Europeans drink more than anyone else in the world? No, but the numbers, as reported by Reuters, are still pretty intriguing: the consumption of alcohol in the European Union is double the world average ... More >>

Vienna Philharmonic

NYC Chefs and Cookbook Writers Take Center Stage in the Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks

The Piglet, Food52's tournament of cookbooks, which is modeled after The Morning News' Tournament of Books, has released this year's bracket, with many New York City chefs and cookbook authors in the mix. The Dutch chef Andrew Carmellini's American Flavor, New York Times writer Melissa Clark's Cook ... More >>

Wallsé Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner Explains His Culinary Philosophy: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Kurt GutenbrunnerKurt Gutenbrunner brings Austria to New York.​ Yesterday we spoke with Kurt Gutenbrunner about the meaning of "neue" cuisine and the release of his just-published cookbook. Today he tells us more about his restaurants and why it's not so much the type of food t ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 21-27, 2011

Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

David Esbjornson's Shakespeare production puts an urban hell in Central Park

Ooh, Snap! New York Is Getting Chicago-Style Wieners on Wheels

​"The Chicago-style hot dog," Zeph Courtney says, "is a classic piece of American food culture. It's a very, very specific thing. There's one way to do it right, and every other way is wrong." "And we're going to do it right," adds Liz Schroeter Courtney.

Lukas Ligeti & Hypercolor+Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa

What's Happening This Week: A Dinner Fix; a Cleaving Reading

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! DinnerFix CultureFix Tuesday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m. The gallery-slash-resto bar's monthly dinner party series continues with this five-course meal, featuring the ... More >>

Brats Will Start Slinging Sausage Tomorrow

jimmiehomeschoolmom/FlickrBeat on the brats.​Having survived the great boob cheese scandal of 2010, Daniel Angerer is turning his attention to products of four-legged origin: Tomorrow, he and his wife/business partner, Lori Mason, will open Brats, a restaurant inspired by the sausage stands of ... More >>

The NFL Bans Players from Selling Wine; Rheingold Comes Back from the Dead

​The garagiste movement, popular in the 1990s, seems to be resurfacing and changing, with a number of micro wine producers returning to a terroir-driven philosophy. [Wall Street Journal] Some diners are uneasy with the practice of the sommelier tasting the wine first. Daniel Boulud's wine dir ... More >>

About Those Girly Men...

​The biggest aha moment regarding the Wall Street Journal's recent piece on girly men seems to have thus far focused on a portion of Arthur Sulzberger's ear and whether that snippet of ear was intended as a personal attack by Rupert Murdoch upon Sulzberger, as discussed by Michael Wolff in Van ... More >>

Our 10 Best Wine Shops in NYC (and NJ)

​Some wine shops go crazy with the signage, as with this European vineyard vehicle parked in front of the Seaport's Pasanella & Son. But will it make our top 10? What does Fork in the Road look for in a wine store? A broad selection of wines, from France, Italy, Spain, and California; smaller ... More >>

When the Austrians Start Frying Chicken...

​...It can officially be called a trend. Though Daniel Angerer's Viennese Popcorn-Crusted Fried Chicken has been on Klee Brasserie's menu for years, the Austrian restaurant just sent out a reminder that it's available every Monday night. Given that fried chicken seems to have become this summe ... More >>

What to 'B' to A Salt & Battery

Every week or so in "What to B When You BYOB," a local wine shop recommends a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, Lisa Schock, the director of tasting events at Chelsea Wine Vault, discusses what to bring to nearby fish and chips joint A Salt & Bat ... More >>

What to 'B' to Zaytoons

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to Kamar, one of the managers at Smith & Vine about what to bring to Brooklyn Middle-eastern joint Zaytoons. Smith & V ... More >>

What to 'B' to Dirty Bird

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to David Hunter, the general manager and wine buyer at Chelsea Wine Vault, about what to bring to nearby fried chicken ... More >>

PAGING DR. FREUD

Exploring family, phone sex, and the Holocaust

Grim before the storm

The Edge of Heaven Can Wait

Storylines and cultures crash—and isn't it arty?

Freak Folk

Opera Jawa is the Indonesian morality musical of the year

MOMA's Best Week Ever

Innovator meets Image Maker in dueling retrospectives

Tone-Deaf

Not even Ed Harris can save this poorly composed period pic

Duked Out

A farewell tour pays fitting tribute to Mark Rylance's twin roles at Shakespeare’s Globe

Back Off, Courts: Matt Cooper's Legendary Father-in-Law on Protecting Sources

Art

In a Bleak Hapsburg Autumn, Schnitzler's Artists Go It Alone

Bells and Bulbs

The cucumbers will climb up on the legs of this contraption and . . .

The Rosebud Express

Das Experiment

Austrian directors push boundaries with global documentaries and transmedia translations

Music

Fable Scraps

Daniel Mason Picks Up the Pieces and Writes a Novel

A Biennial in a Book

100 Photographers Share a Virtual Exhibition Space

Fair-Weather Friends

Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

Pleasure and Pain

Moretti Wins at Cannes

The Results Are In

Partly Renovated Loft in Former Knitting Factory

London Traffic

Seven U.K. Productions That May Be New York Bound

The Drowned and the Saved

Promised Lands

Southern Exposure

Roots of Everything

Yazoo's Time Capsule Project

Bobby Conn

The Screens

All the World's a Cyber Stage: The State of Online Theater

My Knees Were Jumping