Eat & Drink

20 May 2010

Family Dinner from Green Chile Cafe, Just Like Dad Used to Pick Up

Remember when rotisserie chicken became a huge suburban food fad? Everybody from Kroger to Wal-Mart to Costco was slinging pre-cooked rotisserie chickens that your Dad would pick up right after he finished loading the cart with 100 pound bags of lawn fertilizer and dog food, while you were off trying

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
19 May 2010

FREE Dinner and Dessert at Bailout Theater

Yep, it sounds too good to be true. But it ain’t. Bailout Theater – which will feature the comedic stylings of Isaac Oliver and friends, a “Deliverance”-esque banjo performance by the talented Alex Mallett, and a verifiable smorgasbord of local delicacies (as well as questionable dishes brought to you by

Mikey Rox - Cut-Rate Copywriter 0
18 May 2010

FREE Lunch at Trattoria 1910

I’ve been sitting on this tip for awhile now.  The PR folks for Gallo Salame sent it to me like a month ago, but I wanted to wait publish it until it neared.  This is simply because I know you fuckers would probably forget about it and I don’t want you

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
16 May 2010

FREE Park Slope’s Annual 5th Ave Street and Music Fair

Man this city is so spoiled. It seems like every weekend brings some new street fair or open air market and my money just finds new and inventive ways to wander off. My only previous experience with street fairs before moving to New York involved old veterans on canes and

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
15 May 2010

Cheap Prix Fix: Del Posto

There is a distinct upside to a tanked economy’deals at restaurants.  I love to take advantage of our fiscal misfortune by testing out many of the city’s best prix fix offers. While experiencing a serious deal the other day, I got a taste of how the other half live (or

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
15 May 2010

The Veggie Parade, Seriously

And we are up! It’s in the 70’s outside again. Don’t you just love how the weather out here just makes you beg for it? Anyway, San Francisco is having something called Bay to Breakers, which from my understanding is a naked parade, and it appears that New York wants

Rebecca E. - The Centimentalist 0
14 May 2010

The Counting Room

There sure are a lot of new things popping up all up on the north side of Williamsburg these days. Lodged within a weird DUMBO-area-looking strip-mall block next to a dry cleaning place on North 11th and Berry is just one of these new “things”– a little (actually sort of

Anna G - Caliburg Contributor 0
12 May 2010

FREE Breakfast and Bike Tune-Ups on Bike To Work Day Tomorrow

If you’re a hardcore bike commuter – like the guy who looks like he’s in the middle of a triathlon as he rides down Market Street on his way to a fancy FiDi job – then you probably laugh at things like Bike to Work day, which the San Francisco

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0