CLOS Wine Bar is a brand-new bar just off the Bowery where you and your date can have a wine-tasting experience right here in the city. You can spend the entire evening here indulging your taste buds, so conversation (and your palate) will never run dry.
Phosphorescent seems fitting as singer-songwriter Matthew Houck's chosen epithet. His folksy tunes may make you see fireworks. Thursday April 18th at 8 p.m. ($15)
Meet Jon. He's the manager of Choice Greene, and he's opening a brand new nursery in the backyard of this neighborhood favorite. Now you can start your own urban garden with organic plant starts from local farmers.
This Thursday, April 11 is the annual Rising Stars Awards Tasting Gala and Awards Ceremony, an event that celebrates the New York's best new chefs. You can experience a to-die-for meal of 20 dishes with beverage pairings from the chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, mixologists, and brewers from some of your favorite restaurants. Tickets are $125 general admission or $175 for VIP access.
Four words: Spicy Bacon Caramel Corn. Yep. This popcorn is paired with smoky bacon from farm-raised hogs and smothered in Brooklyn Brewery Pennant Ale caramel. Yum.
Thelewala is right across the street from Kati Roll, and proving to be stiff competition. But can they live up to the beloved original purveyor of this delectable Indian street food? You be the judge.
Comic Strip Live is one of the most important spots in the history of comedy, kicking off the careers of such legends as Eddie Murphy, Sarah Silverman, and Louis C.K. The always popular comedy club has shows every night of the week ($15) for a guaranteed gut-busting. You never know, you might just see the next Dane Cook.
Pearl & Ash is the perfect blind-date spot: you don't know anything about your date's taste preferences, so why not go somewhere that lets you make it into whatever you want it to be? Wine bar, cocktail bar, tapas bar...etc. etc.
Birthdays are meant to make you feel like a world-famous celebrity. With Red Carpet Kids, your child and friends get a full day of stardom, including filming their own green screen movie with special effects, props, make-up, and costumes, and a paparazzi photo shoot down the red carpet for the movie premiere (popcorn included).
Are your coworkers staring longingly out their windows? Why not treat them to manicures? Manicube will temporarily turn your office into a nail spa with 15-minute manicures for $15, or $12 “clip and cleans” for guys. An added bonus: $1 from every manicure goes to entrepreneurial women in developing countries.
The Cold War Kids have been around for a while, but if you haven't seen them live, you should. This is a show that will give your calves a good work out from all the jumping. Saturday, April 13th at 6 p.m. ($25).
It's pasta night, so you're asking yourself, "Red or White?" But with one of Sfoglini's surprising freshly-made pasta flavors, you need to be deciding what beer you want to go with your meal. The BxB Radiators are a collaboration with the Bronx Brewery and is made with spent grain from their signature Pale Ale.
Alphabet City Beer Co. is the beer version of your favorite wine bar/wine shop. They sell over 350 different kinds of craft beers, and keep 12 rotating on tap to taste in the bar or to bring home in a growler along with some fresh baked bread, cheese, and charcuterie to titillate your palate. Hunker down in a leather armchair with a brew and book, or make new friends at the wooden community table and snack on a Three Cheese Grilled Cheese on Cranberry Pecan Bread ($7) or a Pate Plate ($10).
Dear shopping addicts, I give you two reasons to shop the Surface to Air Sample Sale this week from March 14th-17th: 1) Up to 80% off men's, women's, and kid's clothing and accessories and 2) a change in seasons demands a whole new wardrobe. Every fashionista knows that.
Psst…Want to know a secret? That unmarked bar-restaurant on the Bowery is Wise Men, a sexy brand-new bar and restaurant. This sleek and modern bar is an ideal date spot where you’ll you’re your favorite Arcade Fire songs while sipping classic cocktails like the Perfect Rob Roy (Deward, Vermouth, Peychard Bitters, $12). The surprisingly to-die-for menu items: the Pork Chop (with mustard, onions, and peppercorn, $18) and the Broccoli (charred with lemon, olive oil, chili flakes, $8). They will the best pork chop and broccoli you’ve ever had, at the best new hotspot in NoHo.
This season is all about all-white or Easter-egg pastels, and Cinzia Rocca's Sample Sale has you covered on both fronts. These Spring coats are just what your wardrobe needs to celebrate the warm weather, and at up to 70% off or buy one get on free!
Get ready to fall into a trance and figure your whole life out while experiencing an intense non-drug-induced body high at the Memory Tapes show. Sunday, April 14th at 9:30 p.m. ($12).
OMilk has been making waves in NYC, and for good reason. Their Almond and Cashew Milks are as scrumptious as milkshakes, especially the unfiltered Cashew Milk made with vanilla bean.
The Sferra Sample Sale at Chelsea Market starting today has all of your cuddling essentials--down comforters, bathrobes, throw blankets, you name it, and all for up to 70% off.
Manhattan boasts the biggest and longest-running St. Patrick's Day Parade in the world, which means Midtown is a madhouse on this rowdy holdiay. But Maggie's Place is ready for the hullabaloo and, to make you a little better prepared, also, is offering an Access Pass that you can print out and become an instant VIP.
