Astoria

On Monday night we checked out Vite Vinosteria on its first day open to the public—this is the new Italian wine bar that has opened up in the old Bugatti (…)

Food Talk offers up tasty and thirst quenching ways to cool off this week including Cholados at Pecas Y Mas, iced coffee, iced tea and boozy cocktails all over Astoria, happy hour at the Thirsty Koala and more!

Thanks to all who participated last night in our unexpected twitter community effort after the broken rail at 59th/Lex destroyed the evening’s subway commute. It was much appreciated by many (…)

Yesterday we stopped by Tacuba, a new Mexican restaurant opening up in the old 5 Napkin Burger space. Yes, that’s its name—Tacuba—which refers to the name of a section in (…)

You may have heard that Ben & Jerry’s are “dishing out” (ha ha!) free ice cream around NYC during the month of July. That’s pretty awesome in and of itself, (…)

We continue to be excited that Orange Is The New Black films here in Astoria—both at Kaufman Astoria Studios and around the neighborhood. We’ve heard from many of you over (…)

Earlier this year we learned that the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks extravaganza was moving back to the East River, and the idea of that was very exciting, especially for (…)

A while back we told you that Mexico Blvd, the popular taco truck, was opening a brick and mortar space on 36th Avenue—well, meet Chela y Garnacha! They are in (…)

We are so happy to learn that the Astoria Greenmarket will be back again this year! Its first day of operation in 2014 is going to be Wednesday, July 9 (…)

We Heart Astoria 4th of July edition includes new menu items at Snowdonia, the Cowboy signature dog at the NY Dog House, new baos at The Bao Shoppe, NY Mag’s Cheap Eats list and more!

We got an interesting press release from the folks at Snowdonia, letting us know about changes that have happened at the popular Astoria gastropub. They’ve expanded and changed parts of (…)

From everything we’ve heard, APAC had a stellar season! So what better to do than celebrate?! APAC is gathering to celebrate the completion of the season and they want you (…)

Last night I attended the Independence fireworks show in Astoria Park, and boy were there a lot of people! It was awesome to see the Astoria community come out and (…)

Over the weekend we came across an article by the Queens Chronicle about the issue of the toxicity of the land Astoria Cove is to be built on. The environmental (…)

We love wine tastings, and the ones done at Astoria Park Wine & Spirits usually result with me buying a bottle of what I tasted. This time around, though, they (…)