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The past ten days have been dedicated to spreading the Italian craft beer gospel all over NYC. A tasting dinner, three radio interviews, three film segments, and dozens of bottles of BeerBera, Friska, La Mummia and Etrusca later, (more…)

On June 10, Patrick Pistolesi and Federico Tomasselli of Barnum Cafè inaugurated The Gin Corner, Rome’s first gin bar. The Gin Corner is located in the Hotel Adriano in Rome’s historical center and stocks 60 gins from around the world. While the bar specializes in martinis and other gin-based (more…)

Bizarre garnish, great view at The First Luxury Art Hotel.

All’Oro, Riccardo Di Giacinto and Ramona Anello’s Michelin star restaurant closed its Parioli branch back in December 2012 and opened in the First Luxury Art Hotel shortly thereafter. For months, lunch service at the new All’Oro location near Piazza del Popolo was dedicated to a buffet bruch. Yesterday, at (more…)

I am super excited to be hosting another Italian craft beer event at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. On Monday June 10 at 7PM, I will be serving some really fantastic and relatively rare beers paired with dinner. Tickets cost $45, reservations are essential and you can book online. Here’s what I’ve got in store for you (more…)

On March 17-18, The Real Wine Fair was held in Tobacco Dock in Lodon’s Wapping district. As the name would imply, there were amazing natural wine makers from all over the world (with an especially large presence from Georgia), but visitors to the fair were also treated to a fantastic array of food, beer and (more…)