Please enjoy your trial Weekend Prime membership.
Your Perks: 1) A bottle of Lock Stock & Barrel 13 Year Old Straight Rye Whiskey—arguably the most acclaimed new whiskey on the market. 2) 34% off a brilliantly simple wireless speaker. 3) Really exquisite vintage barware from the golden age of drinking. Your home bar deserves this.
There are still things the Internet can’t really do for you. Like give you a hug, or properly measure you for a suit. So the usually online-only suit makers at Indochino have touched down in Union Square for a few days—for the suit reason, not the hug reason.
Well, Off the Grid is back, and they finally realized their previous shortcoming—a glaring lack of carnival games. Now, along with 35 food trucks and all that, you’ll have all the skee-ball and whack-a-mole a retro date could want. Assuming food trucks are retro now.
Somewhere on one end of the brunch spectrum is eggs and coffee. Somewhere on the other end is Padrecito’s new situation, with polenta-plantain hotcakes, bacon quesadillas and chipotle Bloody Marys. It’s a beautiful spectrum.
You probably heard that Dear Mom’s recent NYC bagel pop-up, with goods shipped overnight from Eastside Bagels, got a bit hectic. This weekend, they’re pulling a bagel mulligan. One bagel per person. No sandwiches, just schmears. 180 bagels total. Plenty for everybody. Until the 181st person.
Now’s the time to start thinking about what kind of smoke, spice and heat a Nigeria-born chef might add to a burger. A few days ago, that might’ve seemed a cruel exercise, but now you can just go to Crossburgers to test your powers of hypothesizing. Delicious, delicious hypothesizing.
