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Three NYC Restaurants Helping to Feed Essential Workers In The Wake of COVID-19

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Our essential workers need fuel for their long, grueling shifts in NYC’s hospitals. We recognize three restaurants donating their time and efforts to help those who help us. 

 
Brooklyn Chop House (150 Nassau St.) in FiDi is making food deliveries to their neighborhooding hospital, New York Presbyterian, nightly for as long as the restaurant’s doors are open. They’re offering their most popular dishes to the staff that is working tirelessly to ensure NYC citizens safety, including nurses, doctors, surgeons and more for being the true heroes during this pandemic. 
Since word of their generosity has spread, almost a dozen other hospitals have reached out to Brooklyn Chop House for help, including Sloan Kettering, NY Presbyterian, Cornell Weill, and Lenox Hill. Without hesitation, the owners said they’d make meals for their workers too, as well as Elmhurst Hospital. They are also offering 20% off for all first responders picking up meals at the downtown hotspot.
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Loulou, the newly opened French bistro in Chelsea, began delivery to ICU doctors and nurses two weekends ago and plans to continue their efforts during the coming weeks. When the world changed, co-owner Loulou Mathias Van Leyden had to decide whether or not to close his less than a month old restaurant completely. He and his partners ultimately decided to fight and began delivery and takeout. He went a step further by delivering meals to New York Presbyterian/Columbia University ICU staff members on Sunday, March 22nd because of a fundraiser set up by Seven Rooms and now he’s continuing this endeavor.
Loulou is asking for help through donations where 100% of the proceeds will go to preparing and delivering meals to doctors during this time. The restaurant made additional deliveries to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Mount Sinai. To donate you can visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/meals-for-hardworking-icu-doctors-during-covid19

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The vegan, plant-based and kosher chain Beyond Sushi in NYC delivered their first set of hospital meals to 42 health care workers at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens this past Wednesday (April 1st) as the result of a community fundraiser that was organized on the hospital’s behalf. The restaurant’s owners, Guy and Tali Vaknin, will now start a fundraiser of their own where for every $200 raised, they’ll send another care package of individual meals to a local hospital and are kicking things off with a donated delivery of their own at Metropolitan Hospital later this week.

Thank you for all your generous support and care for our essential New Yorkers. Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay indoors.

 

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Fear Not: There Are Still A Few Places Delivering Comfort Food, Pizza, Wine, and Margaritas

Fornino is still making pizza

Bored with boxed mac and cheese and spoonfuls of peanut butter?

There are still glimmers of civilization out there offering delivery and pickup. Who are these brave souls and how can they feed you something tastier than your dwindling pantry supplies ASAP?

Clinton Hall offers delivery and pickup at their 90 Washington St. and 16 W. 36th St. locations from 1pm – 9pm. Enjoy comfort food, canned beers, bottles of wine, growlers of beer and games to make self-quarantine more enjoyable. Menu items include Fried Pickle Chips, Buffalo Cauliflower, Beyond Veggie ALT and the Double Smashed Burger. For alcohol, enjoy CH Gigawatt IPA, Blue Moon, Montauk Summer and White Claw in addition to $19.99 bottles of wine. Growlers with a special beer of the day are also available as well as games like Jenga, Uno and Cards Against Humanity along with other essentials like toilet paper sold by the roll. For delivery visit, UberEats or Seamless.

Brooklyn Chop House in the Financial District, which offers everything from dumplings to steaks, is also offering beer, wine, Lychee Martinis, Spicy Mango Margaritas, and Mules to alleviate some of your social distancing woes.  From 12pm-5PM, select happy hour cocktails are $10…and since they’re operating with airplane drinking rules, start whenever you want. Additionally, if you order a feast over $250, you’ll qualify for a free bottle of Absolut. Orders can be made via Postmates or visitingwww.brooklynchophouse.com. 

Fornino in Greenpoint offers their beer and wine selection for 50% off the normal price. For all wine bottles, enter the code WINE50 at checkout to indulge in delicious vino while treating yourself to pizza, kale salad, or wood roasted Brussels sprouts. Order by visiting https://www.fornino.com or by going to Chownow.

AND AS ALWAYS: Tip generously. Please.

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6 Breathtaking Cocktails to Feast Your Eyes On

Sure you want your drink to taste good, but wouldn’t it be great if it looked fabulous as well? These six drinks are sure to be showstoppers, and you’ll have all eyes on you when they arrive at your table!

1. Smoked Boulevardier at Brooklyn Chop House

Head to this steakhouse meets dim sum shop for a smoky take on this classic cocktail. Maker’s Mark bourbon, Campari, and sweet vermouth are combined with smoked cherrywood to echo the taste of wood fired steaks. 150 Nassau Street.

2. Gintonico at Shoo Shoo

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Love a classic G&T but want something with a little more flair? The Gintonico at Shoo Shoo has you covered. The drink was created by cocktail director Dushan Zaric and combines Fords Gin and Fever Tree tonic water with colorful garnishes like juniper berries, rosemary, rose buds, citrus peels, and olives that not only look pretty but play off the flavors of the gin. 371 Broome Street.

3. Finding Nemo at The Flying Cock

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This triple hit of nostalgia combines a Capri Sun-style pouch with gummy fish and your favorite childhood movie in a very adult way. Cocktail consultant Cody Goldstein of Muddling Memories created this stunner by mixing tequila, grapefruit, blue orange liqueur, lime, ginger beer, and gummy fish and topping it all off with a bendy straw for a drink sure to make anyone who didn’t order it jealous. 497 3rd Avenue.

4. The Drama Queen at Understudy

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Head to Understudy at DeKalb Market Hall for signature cocktails and a menu of rotating snacks from their vendors, which include favorites like Ample Hills Creamery, Fletcher’s BBQ, Home Frite, and A Taste of Katz’s. Bar Manager George Duval made this oversized tiki drink with citrus rum, limoncello, and citrus juices then garnished it with beautiful tropical flowers. There’s nothing better than a refreshing, colorful cocktail in a giant glass for spring! 445 Albee Square West, Downtown Brooklyn.

5. The Waterbury Royale at Freehold

A venue as unique as Freehold needs a cocktail to match, and the Waterbury Royale is sure to make your jaw drop. The drink is a combination of Absolut Elyx, watermelon and lime juices, simple syrup, and champagne topped with limes and everyone’s favorite candy Sour Patch Watermelon. The punch is served in a rose gold swan and arrives to your table with sparklers. This is sure to be your party drink of the summer! 45 South 3rd Street, Williamsburg.

6. ICONS series at queensyard

queensyard, the new British restaurant in Hudson Yards, has not one but five gorgeous cocktails in their new ICONS series, which brings prominent moments in art and fashion to life in drinkable form. Starting on the top left we have the Secret inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels stunning jewelry, which combines Suntory Toki whiskey, Ylang Ylang soda, cherry blossom bitters, and house Chinato with pinks and reds. Pollock n˚32 is a twist on the Manhattan with Jackson Pollack’s iconic splatter style. The glass is decorated with splashes of chocolate, and the drink is essentially dessert as it is served with a bourbon washed Black Forest gateau, chocolate, sherry, chocolate bitters, and white chocolate air. Tobacco Vanille is a take on Tom Ford’s new perfume that mixes Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Leather Vanilla liquor, Tobacco Maple, Amber Tincture, and Cacao Butter for a luxurious drink made even more decadent by the leather bag it is served in. D.O.T.O (Dream of the Orient) is inspired by YSL dresses and kimonos and features saffron infused gin, purple shiso, almond, plum, spicy kombucha, gula meleka, and lime. Not pictured is the Yvresse, which is champagne soda and homemade salted caramel rum served in a mirrored glass to mimic the iconic YSL perfume.

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Banner Year in Lower Manhattan Leasing

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Lower Manhattan captured over 5.5 million square feet of new commercial leasing activity in 2018 with a surge of activity in the fourth quarter that made it the best year for leasing since 2014, according to the Alliance for Downtown New York’s Lower Manhattan Real Estate Year In Review.  

J. Crew inked the largest relocation deal of 2018 with its commitment to Brookfield Place and, along with McKinsey & Company, led the pack of 26 new Lower Manhattan tenants relocating to Lower Manhattan and taking  25,000+ sq. ft. of space. These tenants represented eight industries and showed a dramatic diversification over the previous year where large relocations were dominated by three industries (see illustration). The diversification of Lower Manhattan’s largest tenants has been a growing trend and closely mirrors the overall market transformation. 

“It was an incredible year in Lower Manhattan,” said Downtown Alliance President Jessica Lappin. “We saw a number of new high profile companies like McKinsey, Casper, and Nike choosing to relocate to Lower Manhattan and many more current tenants like Omnicom and BMI choosing to stay. It’s clear that this neighborhood has arrived as a place where companies across all industries want to be located.”

While the opening of 3 World Trade Center introduced significant availability to the Lower Manhattan market in 2018, the neighborhood continued to see high demand – resulting in the largest quarterly drop in the vacancy rate since the second quarter of 2014 as the market tightened to 10.8 percent at year’s end.

Retail in Lower Manhattan also continued to grow in 2018 with a total of 95 new stores and restaurants.  Nearly 60 full-service dining restaurants, casual eateries and nightlife spots across a variety of cuisines and price points opened this year, including Sola Lab, Brooklyn Chop House, and Don Wagyu.  Lower Manhattan also welcomed new and unique hotel brands to the market, including two concepts that are entirely new to New York City. The neighborhood’s inventory is now home to 7,700 rooms, representing an incredible breadth of options for both the business and leisure traveler.