Best of the Fest: More From the New York City Wine & Food Festival

From chef chats to panel-discussion recaps to, well, a rather frank assessment of Bobby Flay’s dancing skills. Yes folks, it was a VERY special time.

Posted 10/13/08 in Grub Street : New York Wine & Food Festival

Tags: anthony bourdain, bobby flay, boqueria, daniel, Dominique Ansel, ferran adria, gordon ramsay, le cirque, Marco Maccioni, Morimoto, New York Wine & Food Festival, park avenue autumn, richard leach, scarpetta, scott conant, Seamus Mullen, sweet, Yann de Rochefort

Reimagining Dessert at SWEET

A slideshow of tasty treats from the city's leading pastry chefs, from Jean Georges to Kyotofu.

Posted 10/13/08 in Grub Street : Slideshow

Tags: new york city wine and food festival, slideshow, sweet

Pastry Royalty Performs at Sweet

The city’s top dessert chefs, from Johnny Iuzzini on down, delighted deep-pocketed foodies with their signature confections at Sweet on Friday night. Evian and Ferro Rocher flexed their marketing muscle, dispatching well-formed young people in tight clothes to represent their not especially sexy brands. The pastry aristocracy (Goldfarb, Iuzzini, and Stupak) were all present and accounted for, standing proudly behind space-age-looking creations that tasted even better than they looked. (Only Sam Mason wasn’t around, as someone had to man the stoves at Tailor.) At first we were sort of alarmed: There were obviously many more guests than had originally been intended, for the long, narrow, space, but since cake isn’t combustible, it all seemed safe enough. A body can only take so much chocolate ganache, Champagne, and high-powered pastry cooks crammed into one hall.

Posted 11/19/07 in Grub Street : Foodievents

Tags: alex stupak, desserts, foodievents, johnny iuzzini, sam mason, sweet, tailor, tom colicchio, wichcraft

Giant Dessert Spectacular Ushers in New York Wine & Food Festival

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival was such a big hit that a New York spinoff was probably inevitable — and it will be thus! The local incarnation will begin with Sweet on November 16. And what's Sweet, you may ask? Oh, just a "late-night dessert party" for 1,500 guests on the waterfront, featuring all the city’s top pastry chefs: Grub Street buddy Johnny Zs of Jean Georges, Michael Laiskonis of Le Bernardin, Karen DeMasco of Craft, and Nicole Kaplan of Del Posto. More pastry gods and goddesses will be added to the list in coming months. But there's more, as Sweet is just a warm-up for the New York City Wine & Food Festival (their site just went live). It’ll be held next fall, and we’re predicting that it will be huge, even more of a hedonistic binge and bacchanal than the Miami original. In the meantime, Sweet should be a pretty good dry run. New York City Wine and Food Festival [Official Site]

Posted 09/14/07 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: johnny iuzzini, karen demasco, michael laskonis, new york wine and food festival, newsfeed, nicole kaplan, south beach wine and food festival, sweet