Owner: Alireza Saifi, a meticulous quality-driven founder learning from his team of friends and trained brewers. “Everybody comes in here and tosses their egos aside,” says Saifi. “The product drives the passion, and the end goal is always the quality of the product.” The space: A 6,500-square-foot building complete with… Read More →
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the world’s premier not-for-profit culinary college, is the original and proven college for students who want to build prestigious careers in the food world—from top chefs, pastry chefs, and bakers to leaders in catering, research and development, education, food styling, food journalism, and other… Read More →
Calling all beer drinkers! The first Rockland County Craft Beer Festival will at Growler & Gill Craft Beer Shoppe in Nanuet, Saturday, June 1 from 3 to 7 p.m. The event takes place in their outdoor area and will feature more than 30 breweries: Newburgh Brewing Company, Dead Guy Ale… Read More →
Our new food writer Megan McCaffrey (welcome Megan!) has her first byline in The Journal News today. For a story about where to watch the Super Bowl, she did all the leg work for you in finding out which bars and pubs have the best viewing and the best food… Read More →
I don’t know if you’ve happened to notice, but every Sunday in The Journal News’ Sunday Life section, there’s a column called “Restaurants We Love.” Each week, the features staff writes about a great restaurant in the Lower Hudson Valley. This is one of my favorite features in the… Read More →
Yeah! Great weather. After the jump, a list of places to dine outdoors in Blauvelt, Congers, New City, Nyack, Orangeburg, Pearl River, Piermont, Suffern, Tappan and West Haverstraw. A view of the river from the Hudson Water Club in West Haverstraw.
Hi everyone and happy Monday! What a weekend, huh? I went around Rockland Lake both Saturday and Sunday — some running, some speed walking — plus I got out on the garden to prune the blueberries and plant some lettuce. I can’t remember an earlier year I’ve been out planting!... Read More →
Here are a few other popular places to watch the game (and eat wings) in the area. To search more restaurants by name, cuisine, town or amenity, visit LoHud.com/food. If your favorite restaurant is not in our online listings, please e-mail me, and I will see that it is added…. Read More →
A chicken roasting in the oven warms the house with great smells — and the meal is just that much more satisfying if you know it’s a locally raised chicken. Good to know, then, that just because it’s winter doesn’t mean we can’t still shop local. Farmers, fishers, cheesemakers and… Read More →
Hi, it’s Katherine Curry, guest-blogger. Over the course of several lunchtime visits this December, I’ve fallen unabashedly in love with Turkois, the wonderful seven year-old Turkish restaurant tucked into a little strip mall in Airmont. I know I’m not Turkois’s first admirer—this restaurant has many loyal fans (like my friend… Read More →
From Chinese to Indian to German to French — you can celebrate (or not) in style without having to wash a single bowl. I’ve been compiling this list of restaurants open on Christmas Day for several years now, and I just re-confirmed for 2009. Am I missing some? Please leave… Read More →
Everyone’s looking to go apple picking in the Hudson Valley, whether Westchester, Rockland and Putnam or further north. Chris Serico has the lowdown on the apple crop, a look at the dates when certain varieties will ripen, plus a list of the local orchards (scroll down and look on the… Read More →
Today in print we have a nice mix of stories. First up, Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press has written an insightful profile of Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Bars in Pocantico Hills. Dan won the James Beard Award for best chef in the U.S. earlier this month,... Read More →
Karen Croke has written a story about all the recession menus out there at restaurants. Here’s a link, but I will also repost it below. I’m sure this is just a sampling. if you know of others, won’t you please share them in the comments field? We need all the… Read More →
I’m planning on running the Meyer Lemon-Thyme Gimlet recipe in next Wednesday’s paper, so I called around to a few stores to ask if they stock Meyer lemons. Not only did three stores in Rockland not carry them — they’d never even heard of them. Which brings me to a… Read More →
The Life&Style staff got together to put this list together a couple of years ago, and I just went through and updated it for this year. It’s certainly not a complete list of every single restaurant that’s open Christmas, but it’s a start. Know of more? Leave the information in… Read More →
 Good morning and happy Monday. I’m recovering from the Beer&Food festival this weekend. I was a judge in the firefigher cook-off, where the prize was a $10,000 Viking grill (yowza!) and then I hosted our chef demos on Sundays. I’ll give you tons of photos later today, but for now,... Read More →
Small Bites readers will recognize the reporting that went into our lead story today, the Thai roundup of Rockland. (We’ll be hitting Westchester and Putnam, too.) Oh, Thai! (me, TJN) We’ve also got the review of the Sidewalk Bistro. (Jill and Deven Black/For TJN) And our latest contestant in the… Read More →
