Taco Wars: El Diablo Slings Organic, The Taco Truck Does Green

And a Red Hook vendor works the Gowanus Canal.

Posted 08/25/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: el diablo, endless summer, gowanus canal, hoboken, new jersey, newsfeed, taco trucks, tacos, the yard, union pool, williamsburg

Williamsburg's First Cocktail Palace Is Revealed

Eater must’ve spotted us at Hotel Delmano on Friday because they took a break from their holiday yesterday to post interior shots of Billyburg’s first cocktail palace, from the owners of Union Pool. We might’ve done the same — that’s how impressive this place is — but we confess to being too hung-over from one too many elderflower tequila gimlets, which is what happens when you ask the barkeep there to make you something with tequila. That and a tequila with grenadine and bitters made “by hand” (hence the moniker “Delmano”). As for the cocktail list, the Commandant’s Cocktail is the only original one and the most expensive at $14 (it contains pear cognac, Cointreau, lemon juice, and green chartreuse), but mixologist Jeff Hanson’s $9 to $12 renditions of the Last Word, Corpse Reviver No. 2, the Hemingway Daiquiri, and the Seelbach Cocktail are plenty revelatory.

Posted 01/22/08 in Grub Street : Openings

Tags: death & co., hotel delmano, openings, union pool