May 3, 2010 | By Adam Roberts | 0 Comments
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a year, you may remember an exciting contest from last year called “The Great New York Foodie Photo Scavenger Hunt.” It worked like this: I wrote a long list of celebrated New York foodie destinations and assigned different points for various tasks that contestants had to undertake at these destinations while posing for pictures that they’d ultimately upload to Flickr. Here are last year’s results. As you can see, contestants had the time of their lives and not only that, the first and second place winners received two tickets each to Tom Colicchio’s “Toast to the Children Event” at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
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March 11, 2009 | By Adam Roberts | 42 Comments
Attention New York City Food Lover,
Do you have a camera? Do you have a friend? How would you like to spend your weekend running all over the city with your friend taking pictures of you in front of all of the foodie landmarks, eating cookies from Levain Bakery and smoked fish from Russ & Daughters?
“Eh,” you say and I respect that because you’re a busy person and you’d rather spend your weekend drooling on the couch watching reruns of Paula’s Party than chasing after fish and cookies for some idiot’s website.
“But wait,” I say, “what if there was a prize?”
“A prize?” you ask.
“A prize!” I say.
“Tell me more.”
“Ok!” I say.
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June 6, 2008 | By Adam Roberts | 6 Comments
What a night!
Lessons learned from last night’s latte art throwdown at Joe: The Art of Coffee, a fundraiser for Red Cross disaster relief in Myanmar and China:
(1) Baristas love a good throwdown;
(2) Baristas take a throwdown seriously–many of their hands were shaking as they poured!
(3) When MC-ing such an event, it is bad to interview a barista while she’s prepping her pour (sorry Emily from 9th Street Espresso);
(4) Being a barista grants access to a secret cult of baristas; I was surprised to see the baristas from some of my favorite New York coffee shops–Gorilla, 9th Street and, of course, Joe–all know each other and like each other;
(5) It’s good to have a giant screen so the crowd can see the lattes as they’re poured and hoot and holler for the good ones…
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