Ten years ago, when Williamsburg was well on its gentrification journey but was still without an Apple Store, the Four Horsemen opened on Grand Street and changed what wine could be. Originally a ...

The legendary Kentucky distillery digs deep into its history and embraces regenerative farming for its first non-bourbon spirit, Star Hill Farm Whisky. If you are travelling the hills of Kentucky, and ...

Bushwick was once one of the country’s major beer-making centers. At one point before Prohibition, one-tenth of all beer produced in the United States originated in Brooklyn, and the majority of it ...

Take the 3 train to the penultimate stop on a summer Saturday. The barren roofscapes you see from the elevated track don’t hint that you’re entering the neighborhood with the most community gardens in ...

If New York is a body, the Hudson Valley is its heart—literally and symbolically. Not only do the region’s farms produce the oxygen and nutrients we need to function, they are also synonymous with the ...

VHH Foods serves up some exquisite dishes. Photo by Ingalls Photography. May 2019 Editor’s Note: since we first published this story, in July 2017, dining options on the DUMBO waterfront have expanded ...

Staying in for coffee is a simple luxury in a fast-moving city. Sure, Brooklyn is spoilt for choice among eclectic, world-class coffee shops in which to sip and be seen sipping. But aren’t those rare ...

There was a time when you could judge a coffee shop by the menu. The best cafés had the simplest drinks, with nothing more baroque on offer than a latte—and even that was treated with some snobby ...

“What we do know is that there is a lot of consumer interest in purchasing food from their neighbors … and that there are many producers interested in using cottage food production as an avenue to ...

Let’s face it: the American food system is in a precarious place right now. Between egg shortages, skyrocketing prices, and never-ending product recalls, shopping for healthy, affordable, delicious ...

Bars at the Raaka factory. Photo by Molly Leon. Through her blog Chocolate Noise, writer Megan Giller has followed her love of chocolate to all of the U.S.’s most exciting bean-to-bar chocolate makers ...

A Trip to Yellow Rose is a Trip to Texas and More On my way to Yellow Rose, a Tex-Mex restaurant near the corner of 13th and 3rd, I was amused to see that the restaurant was almost directly next to a ...