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FAIR FOLKS AND A GOAT - A HOLIDAYS POP UP

Between now and 15 January 2013, the answer is Fair Folks Café, the Soho coffee shop and design store/salon recently opened by Aurora and Anthony Mazzei—the married couple behind the whimsical design brand Fair Folks and a Goat.

For the holidays, Fair Folks Café is hosting Fair American, an American Design Club (AmDC) pop-up shop that features member-made products, all of which are also available at the group’s web store.

http://www.coolhunting.com/design/new-york-holiday-pop-up-highlights.php

Applebee´s

A new Applebee’s is opening in Harlem on December 10th, which will be the greenest restaurant in New York. It is on track to be the city’s first LEED-certified Gold eatery, of which there are only eleven nationwide.

The green Applebee’s has energy-efficient appliances, recycled carpeting, and LED lights with motion sensors that switch them off if nobody is around. There is also an educational touchscreen in the restaurant to inform customers about all of these features.

Billing itself as an “undercover espresso bar,” Happy Bones Coffee & Publications was recently opened in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood by Kiwi clothier Luke Harwood of Stolen Girlfriends Club and contemporary artist and Florida native Jason Woodside. Fronted by Bond No. 7’s storefront, Happy Bones contains a shop for design objects, art books and magazines, while serving up sludge in the back amidst a speakeasy vibe removed from the shuffle of Broadway.

http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/happy-bones.php

Switchel, an “American heritage” beverage from Vermont, you can find at Prospect Restaurant (Brooklyn)

The brand was born from a recipe originally created by farmers to quench their thirst during hay harvest season, now produced with all local ingredients and bottled in craft mason jars.

The restaurant also recommends Switchel, straight up or in a cocktail, with its burger. Get your elixir at Prospect. For more information and contact information visit their Facebook page.

Brooklyn´s food flea market moves to Manhattan: First to Central Park now to Bowery Whole food stop!!

The food Market opened in April of 2008. There were enough articles about the new food scene, Brooklyn, and the Flea and even the food at the market that it snowballed. They had 10 food vendors the first day, 20 the second year, and then 35 by 2010. By the end of 2010 they were out of room for the space allotted for food. So, when they got the space in Williamsburg for the Flea they really wanted us to do two days of programming.  So, they decided to open Smorgasburg at that Williamsburg location. Now, inevitably a lot of the media focuses on the food.

Smorgasburg, the famed Brooklyn Flea food market where we get our weekly pupusa and artisanal popsicle fix, is partnering with Whole Foods for a one-month experiment in delicious local food.  Together they’ve curated a group of vendors to setup shop for one month at the Bowery store, which opens today with Cemita’s Mexican Sandwiches and will serve lunch and dinner 7 days a week.

Stop by and taste for yourself.

Whole Foods Market Bowery
95 East Houston St.
New York, NY 10002

http://www.ediblemanhattan.com/uncategorized/smorgasburg-opens-outpost-today-at-whole-foods-bowery/

Le Fooding Brooklyn Fling celebrates these creative communities and the chefs leading the way.

2. Campfire session #02

September 23, 2012

To bookend Le Grand Fooding NY 2012, MasterCard invites you to the Williamsburg Flea Market for an unforgettable nocturnal fireside adventure. Check it out, the lineup prepared with Downtown Records is insane: Mike D (DJ set), Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow (performance) and special guests such as Dave 1 of Chromeo (DJ set) and others… To please your bellies: The Brooklyn Flea food vendors (The Meat Hook, Mile End Delicatessen, Choncho’s Tacos, Brooklyn Bangers by Saul Bolton, and PizzaMoto) will host the guest stars of the Grand Fooding NY (Inaki Aizpitarte of the Chateaubriand, Paris; the Young Turks, London;  Daniel Rose of Spring, Paris) as well as Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food  (San Francisco & New York City) and Fredrik Berselius of Frej (Brooklyn, NY).
Last but not least, while Maison Premiere’s  Maxwell Britten (Brooklyn, NY) will prepare exclusive Jameson-based  concoctions, the “Picasso of pastry” Pierre Hermé (Paris, Tokyo)  will serve a very special dessert—a bite of fruit  with the San Pellegrino Sparkling Fruit Beverages.September 23 at 7 p.m. @ the Williamsburg Brooklyn Flea.

Details: Standard ($60) and MasterCard® VIP ($100) passes for purchase
including food tasting, two Jameson-based creations, live music, and more,
reserved for MasterCard cardholders. Twenty percent of each ticket sold goes to Action Against Hunger | ACF-International. Address: Williamsburg Brooklyn Flea, 27 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn 11211.

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Taste artisanal whisky in Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn.

The tasting took place at the end of a recent tour of the distillery’s new space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Indeed, the visitors found the 80-proof liquor to be sweeter and more drinkable than what they expected from moonshine, a spirit whose name harkens back to illegal backwoods concoctions.

For about two years, they distilled in a small studio space in East Williamsburg. In 2011, the city, seeking new tenants for the Navy Yard, invited the Kings County Distillery to take over the Paymaster Building, which had recently been renovated.

In addition to standard moonshine and bourbon, patrons sampled Kings County’s chocolate “flavored” whiskey, which was released in February 2012. The popular product is flavored with ground-up cacoa husks from Mast Brothers Chocolate. The result is an intense dark and not-at-all-sweet cocoa-infused spirit.

http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/kings-county-distillery.php

First café serving only water opens in NYC

Its name is Molecule, and it is the first water-only café to open in New York City and possibly the nation.

So what’s so special about the water at Molecule? Is it distilled from the most pristine mountain stream on the planet? No, actually it comes from a New York City tap, but the restaurant justifies charging $1 and up per serving because their water is filtered through a custom-built $25,000 purifier that “uses ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis in a seven-stage processing treatment.”

An article in the Wall Street Journal (one of few positive reviews) hails Molecule as “a cocktail bar for water enthusiasts,” though those who prefer to do their drinking in private can always order 3- and 5-gallon jugs of the store’s “pharmaceutical-grade water” for home delivery.