The weekend is really just the beginning.
This week, Perks is bringing you a three-boozy-milkshake lunch (with three sliders to wash them down) at Burger Shoppe in FiDi. Also: half off your next pair of cult selvage denim jeans, fresh from the Denim Design Lab. It’s science, in your pants.
A story about a guy who loses his Wall Street job, reads about distilling gin in a magazine and then opens the second legal distillery in New York since Prohibition sounds like fiction. Except, the tasting room is open today, where you can try some organic grains from upstate, in post-fermentation, liquid form. In other words, gin.
Because the line in Madison Square Park was threatening to stretch all the way to 86th Street, the evil geniuses behind Shake Shack are opening their fourth location in Manhattan today. And after your third burger, you should give the Pineapple Upper East Side Cake Concrete a whirl. Or just hold out for the Meatpacking Mud Pie...
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LITTLE LAMB Lamb Meatball Sliders at Locanda Verde As you well know, many of Locanda Verde’s awesomely rustic Italian dishes virtually cry out for heady liquid accompaniment. In particular, the delicately proportioned Lamb Meatball Sliders, with goat cheese, cucumber and a toasted bun, are perfect to balance out the right sipping bourbon. Never underestimate the flavor profile of cucumber. |
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You may have noticed a preponderance of vampires in popular culture as of late—but you shouldn’t forget the trail that The Lost Boys blazed... BAM has gathered the 33 greatest vampire movies of all time, from Nosferatu to Buffy. And is screening them. After dark. In a theater full of exposed necks. In a room where no garlic or sharpened stakes are readily available. So bring your own.
They usually hold your trash, but on Saturday a set of dumpsters is going right smack in the middle of a car-free Park Avenue to hold hundreds of gallons of water, you, your date, your date’s bathing suit and, yes, your bathing suit too... Don’t even think about it.
With Old Fashioneds for the Dons and Tom Collinses for the Bettys, the Sunday party and screening at the Tribeca Grand is showing Mad Men in a theater with the same kind of leather chairs you might find at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. And if there are dark secrets about your past that need revealing, private hotel rooms await upstairs.
Your penchant for peanut butter and jelly is rooted deep, deep down inside of you. Almost as deep as your love for a chilled cocktail on a blazing day. Prepare yourself as the two staples of your food pyramid come together... at a sushi restaurant. A tasty, nutty and sweet cocktail, the PB&J at Bond St Lounge has rum, yamamomo fruit jam and toasted sesame seeds. And no, the bartender will not cut the crust off for you.
An entire store’s worth of plaid shirts (because really, you can never have too many), linen moccasins and, yes, boxer shorts are half off on Monday at Steven Alan’s UWS Outpost. Please do not forget to wear pants along with the above outfit.
