Thrillist New York
Emailed in a LIST on: Wednesday March 5, 2008The List
Food/Drink: Terroir
From the oeno-dude behind Hearth, this 24-seat vinoteca's pouring 24 glasses/200 bottles of new and old world wines, e.g., Monte Bello '92 (from Santa Cruz) and L'Etoile '04 (from the Jura region of France). Small plate highlights include duck ham w/ hen of the woods panini, iberico ham charcuterie, and turkey wings "agro dolce" -- a sauce known in Congressional hearings as "Clemens de leche".
Gear: Blue & Cream Sale
To celebrate their arrival in Manhattan, the Hamptons clothier's doling out gratis Svedka cocktails and doing free measurements for a spring suit. Mention Thrillist and get 20% off brands like Shipley & Halmos, Rag & Bone, and Yigal Azrouel (gesundheit).
Travel: Bolt Bus
With daily service from NYC to DC, Bolt elevates the bus experience with leather seats, extra legroom, and free wi-fi. Tickets are guaranteed (not oversold), never higher than $20 (same day purchase), and only $1 for the first ten people who book -- $9 cheaper than the Chinatown Bus, but a savings of approximately $150,000 when you take into account surgery and rehab after your chariot rolls off a PA offramp.
Drink: Cheap pitchers at Mia Dona
Curiously unreported, this haute Italian eatery from the Anthos chef plebes up its gourmet grub (crispy rabbit, calf tongue bruschetta, etc) with shockingly inexpensive pitchers, e.g., $13 Guinness, $11 Peroni, and $9 PBR -- because you can take the boy out of Red Rock West...
Service: NYC Nuclear Blast Radius
Like a delivery zone map for atomic immolation, this mashup lets you set the detonation point and kiloton size to see varying degrees of carnage. For example, 100 kilotons in SoHo'll destroy everything from midtown to Hoboken, but leave Bushwick untouched (not that you'll be able to tell).
Share: Thrillist Chicago
Attention Chicagoans/the guy who flies there to work the Johnson account: Thrillist Chicago is coming very very soon, in all its big-swinging wondrousness.
