Petrossian Serves the Caviar of Energy Drinks

Posted 04/21/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

Upscale spots like the Bowery Hotel's bar are selling a new "luxury refreshment" made from pine bark.

Tags: energy drinks, goldbar, lobby bar at the bowery hotel, petrossian

Blow Hits the Streets of New York

Posted 11/29/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

Want some Blow? Last week the bodega across from Belcourt started dealing the stuff! Easy tiger, it’s not what you think— Blow, you see, is the latest in preposterously named energy products. Apparently the Vegas-based company isn’t sweating the fact that Cocaine was banned, because they’re packaging the white powder in “recreational user packs” (pictured here), “bricks,” and “vials,” and selling it on their Website Iloveblow.com complete with credit cards and mirrors (“I Love Blow” thongs and booty shorts, too!). Like anyone would be cheesy enough to go for this? Then again, we do know some folks who are going to love having the perfect fake-out container next time they go to Beatrice.

Tags: Blow, energy drinks, the beatrice

Drink Creator Doesn't Have Enough Energy for Bon Jovi's Lawyers

Posted 09/11/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed

We’d love to crack a Red Bull or two with the marketing geniuses who give energy drinks names like Cocaine (banned after much controversy), Mad Croc (also available in gum form!), Bong Water (no relation to Bong Spirit Vodka, sold in a bonglike bottle), Beaver Buzz, Sum Poosie, Who’s Your Daddy, and the like. (For a full list, hit up Energy Drink Ratings, a blog that has chugged all of these concoctions so you don’t have to.)

Tags: energy drinks, jon bon jovi, mijovi

Vongerichten Sued by Ex-Waiters; Subway Complies With Calorie Law

Posted 07/10/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore

Six former employees of V Steakhouse file a class-action suit against Jean-Georges Vongerichten for the usual reasons: sub-minimum wage and garnished tips. “We were kind of given the idea that the waitstaff is dispensable, that there were a million people who would come in and do your job.” [NYDN] Unlike the other fast-food chains, who have adamantly resisted the calorie-posting law, Subway has already started to implement it. [Consumerist] Healthy zombies should do their best to follow the zombie food pyramid, which calls for six to eleven servings of brains every day, and only sparing amounts of bones and gristle. [Serious Eats]

Tags: anton ego, bidonville, bittersweet, daniel boulud, dbgb, energy drinks, fort greene, frank bruni, jean georges vongerichten, ratatouille, subway, urban spring, v steakhouse