Hello!
I just wanted to take this moment to talk about random events. Some about wine, some not.
NIGHT OWL
New wine bar alert! Down in the NoLita zone of NYC (in back of the Public Theater) Is Elvis. In the old site of the long lost dive bar, Great Jones Cafe, is a loud, loud bar from the team that brought you Le Dive (I never understood why it wasn’t La Dive?) It’s cute, non-pretentious with smart but ever-changing choices by the glass. There’s even a few priced at $16 (as I once said, the new $10) per glass of something discoverable.
And the new Bar Contra in NYC’s LES? Of course it’s swank —with that kind of dark Jeremiah Stone cool about it. $24 for a glass of wine that isn’t particularly special is a bit much. But the bar snacks are Copenhagen-worthy, small perfect bites and I had a divine sumac-rich cocktail. I will go again, but not for wine.
WHAT ARE YOU SPENDING ON WINE?