The weekend is a close and personal friend of Mr. October.
There are only two kinds of brunch: the raucous, vodka-and-champagne-fueled kind. And the yoga-with-acai-and-champagne variety. Choose one at CO-OP. Then we’re hooking you up with a Halloween costume concierge, bottomless beer with your burger at Interstate Food & Liquor and a custom three-piece suit for under a grand.
There’s bad trouble (playing cards with a guy named after a city). And good trouble (tequila). Starting tonight, a whole heaping of the latter kind arrives on the Bowery courtesy of Hecho en Dumbo’s new mezcal salon. Expect agave-based cocktails, sheep-milk-based queso and that other infamous Tijuana import: six-piece funk bands.
The heart wants what the heart wants. Right now, that’s a Levi’s chambray shirt from the 1920s and some sour apple Big League Chew. Answering the completely random call: Hickoree’s Hard Goods, a former online-only general store that’s now peddling timeworn treasures in Williamsburg. Start clearing a junk drawer immediately.
Bouncers are good at one thing: saying no. Of course, stay in the business long enough and you’ll learn some other skills. Like tattooing. Meet Wass Stevens, 20-year vet of the velvet rope, who’s trading in his door job to run an old-time tattoo parlor. With a 3-to-1 girl/guy ratio.
Oktoberfest might be over. But that doesn’t mean cease all brat-related activities. We suggest jumping on the lunch line at Shake Shack and ordering something from the special holiday-themed menu. Perhaps the garlic sausage with crumbled Bavarian pretzels and bacon-beer-cheese sauce. Extra beer on the side, of course.
Just because this Sunday isn’t the Super Bowl doesn’t mean you can’t eat like it. Beginning this weekend (and for every Sunday game day the rest of the season), Torrisi will offer up three-foot versions of their chicken parm, Italian combo or roast turkey heroes. While pushing buffalo wings to the brink of extinction.
