Category: Liquor/Liqueur/Libations

EATALY is Awesome…and other New York Stories

The trouble with traveling to New York is, you’re usually with people who are under the impression there are things to do there other than eat and drink. – ELV

New York is the greatest restaurant city in the world. – Daniel Boulud

Everyone knows ELV hearts New York City. He’s from Connecticut, lived an hour’s drive from mid-town for five years back in the 80s, and knows the restaurant territory there almost as well as he does Las Vegas’. Amazingly, after at least a hundred trips there, he still gets a tingle whenever he’s awakened from his red-eye slumber to see the sun rising over Manhattan (“Ah, civilization!” are the words and thoughts that immediately spring to his mind.):

[imagebrowser id=1294]

After checking in to the Gansevoort Hotel, smack dab in the middle of the meat-packing district, we considered polishing off our hunger at Pastis (right out our window):

Continue reading “EATALY is Awesome…and other New York Stories”

Depressed? Drink These Now – Sodas at JEAN GEORGES STEAKHOUSE

[imagebrowser id=1264]

ELV has been getting depressed lately about a lot of things, including, but not limited to:

> The heat,

> The humidity,

> The fact that a one-hit, derivative, emo wonder like Kings of Leon rates front page news because its strung out frontman is suffering from “exhaustion” (read: an excess of booze and drugs*),

Continue reading “Depressed? Drink These Now – Sodas at JEAN GEORGES STEAKHOUSE”

CARNEVINO Cocktails with Abby and Nicole

[nggallery id=1229]

Batali/Bastianich Group mixologist Lucas Swallows has one of those names that’s too good to be true — you know like the florist named Rose Flowers or a lumberjack named Mark Wood. Hugh Alexander Curtas (d.o.b. 10-15-84 – The Official Number Two Son Of ELV) once had Mr. Earthman for a geography teacher, and there is actually an attorney in New York called Sue Yoo.

Continue reading “CARNEVINO Cocktails with Abby and Nicole”