If store-bought ginger beer doesn’t pack enough of a flavor wallop, you could always make your own. That’s what Caroline Mak and Antonio Ramos did when they were unsatisfied with the lack of spiciness available on grocery store shelves. They started brewing up batches at home in Clinton Hill. After some experimentation with yeast – [...]

Layered, colored, stacked, topped with fondant, and decorated with chocolate. These are some of the many ways you can order a Royally Iced Cake. Just roughly three months old, Royally Iced Cakes is the creative vision of Erin Nobles, 22, Sari Linson, 26, and Veronica Georgalis, 30. The business partners met while in pastry school [...]

Let’s be honest. We all love homemade foods, but we don’t always have time to, ahem, get our hands dirty. So in that vein, we compiled a map of some great places throughout New York to enjoy homemade foods without all that pesky cooking stuff. View DIY Fooderies in a larger map New York is [...]

For Satsko Watanabe, the food business was something she’s always wanted to do. The former computer consultant said she opened up her first restaurant, Sake Bar Satsko, located at 202 East 7th Street, six years ago.

Updated: March 19, 2010 @ 7:41 PM: Missed our live blog event? Here’s the recap from our Twitter account: 9:24 PM: Did our best… And ate yummy (and messy) sushi. Look out for a final post with pics and other fun stuff in a few days! Thanks for joining! 9:07 PM: The aftermath 9:01 PM: [...]

Cake and chicken wings.  Not exactly what comes to mind when you think of menu combinations. Yet, people in Harlem are steadily finding out the pleasures of this unique collaboration through restaurant start-up Cake N Wings, run by do-it-yourselfers Shari Griffith and Katrina Kelly. They two met over 10 years ago and are best friends. [...]

You think beer is the only thing brewing in Brooklyn? Try some of Vincenzo Lombardo’s homemade wine at his home in Bensonhurst and you might think you’re in California.