AlwaysPartying: Eat Beer for St. Paddy’s Day!
Maryse Chevrière — March 17, 2010
Litre Pints at Radegast Beer Hall & Garden.
Sure, drinking beer on St. Patrick’s Day is practically a rule, but let’s not overlook the many great foods that are actually made using beer. To celebrate, we’ve created our own menu using dishes that feature beer as a key ingredient.
Best of 2009: A Few Dishes
December 22, 2009
A few of AlwaysHungry’s favorite dishes of 2009.
There is no question that a lot of eating has gone down this year. Rookies have introduced new favorites and standbys have reminded us that oldies can still be goodies. To celebrate the conclusion of the ninth year of the aughts, we’ve compiled a little photo tour of a few of our favorite dishes and organized them into nine of our favorite food groups.
Click Here for a few of AlwaysHungry's Favorite Dishes of 2009 >>
AlwaysHolidays: On the Eighth Day of Christmas
Arthur Bovino and Maryse Chevrière — December 19, 2009
Technically, the Twelve Days of Christmas don’t start until Christmas Day, but we’re already in the spirit. To celebrate over the next four days, here’s the carol, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ AlwaysHungry-style, featuring some dishes we tasted in 2009 that we’d be willing to sing about.
Eight Maids a Milking. Today’s food carol verse is a dairy bonanza.
It begins:
On the eighth day of Christmas, my waiter brought to me… eight, made with milk-in,
From MARK Burger, Guinness Milkshake.
Best of 2009: AlwaysHungry’s Top Stories
Arthur Bovino — December 17, 2009
Clockwise from top left, AlwaysHungry’s most popular posts in 2009.
From bacon to doubles, Anne Burrell to Kenny Shopsin, AlwaysHungry has been all over your New York City food radar. So while you’ve probably already seen these awesome articles, in the spirit of the end of the year and all that is the December-holy-round-up (just in case you’ve had too many eggnogs and have forgotten), we present the top ten most popular posts for AlwaysHungry’s inaugural year.
Click Here for the Top Ten Most Popular Posts on AlwaysHungryNY.com during 2009 >>
AlwaysInvestigating: Bobby’s Burger Palate
Arthur Bovino — December 07, 2009
Top, the Burger Americain with Pimento Cheese on Bar Americain’s lunch menu. Left, composed burger. Right, cross-section.
During a recent visit to MARK Burger, Chef Erik Rubin noted to a colleague that one of his favorite burgers in New York City was at a place he once worked, Bar Americain. MARK Burgers’ quality and Rubin’s esteem for Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Burger piqued some curiosity. In the wake of Flay’s NYCWFF Burger Bash entry, his CBS slider discussion and the opening of Bar Americain’s second location, it was time for a State of the Hamburger at Flay’s New York restaurants.
Burger-by-Burger: Mesa Grill, Bar Americain and Bobby's Burger Palace >>
Featured Desserts: Guinness Cake and Shake Pairing
The Gluttoness — October 30, 2009
Left, Guinness Chocolate Cake at Vinegar Hill House ($8.00). Right, MARK Burger’s Guinness Milkshake ($6.50).
We totally agree with Celia Cheng’s latest craving: Guinness Chocolate Cake at Vinegar Hill House (view). We too crave its dense, fudgy flavor. The cake is supremely chocolatly, but with a tempered sweetness, one supplemented by its cream cheese frosting. It almost mimics an Oreo, coating the mouth with that nostalgic combination of chocolate and cream. Milk is the obvious accompaniment, but we stumbled across an even more perfect pairing. Something with Guinness, of course.
MARK Burger’s (view) Guinness Milkshake is a rich reincarnation of a classic Irish Car Bomb. It’s Chef Erik Rubin’s favorite party drink, and he told me he couldn’t believe no one had thought of this before. Rubin first tried to make it a float, but ultimately he realized that you just can’t go wrong with that classic combination of a milkshake with a burger and fries. His secret method? Rubin reduces the Guinness with a little sugar to create a caramel syrup. Each shake blends four ounces of syrup with Ciao Bella’s Tahitian Vanilla Gelato. The first sip of this thick milkshake has crazy Guinness flavor, but eventually the hint of dark beer becomes lost amongst the shake’s creamy decadence.
Now all we have to do is get these two together.
FirstLook: MARK Burger
The Hungry Goat — October 20, 2009
MARK Burger’s Beef Slider, $2.00.
With everyone obsessing over Bill’s Bar & Burger there is a sleeper that is going under the radar that may just be serving the best sliders in New York. It was hard to imagine that something could have been missing from the already cramped restaurant row that is St. Mark’s Place. But with last week’s opening of MARK Burger (view), it became alarmingly clear that what it was missing—craving, even—was a good, cheap burger (or in this case slider) joint.
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