Booze

Margaritas in May or Pina Colada’s in January LIC?

May 4, 2022 by editor Leave a Comment

… So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I’m nobody’s poet
I thought it wasn’t half bad

The children at the local public schools in Long Island City will not be getting off for Cinco De Mayo tomorrow. They did get off for Eid al-Fitr on Monday, and will also get off for Juneteenth, which has been newly added to the holiday calendar this year. Except in 2022 it will actually be on June 20 as the 19th falls on a Sunday. In so doing, the extra day off pushes the NYC public school calendar into another week making Monday, June 27th the last day of school.

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Gamehaus Sporting Club & Arcade Coming to 51st Ave in LIC

June 21, 2021 by editor 4 Comments

GAMEHAUS is coming to Long Island City this Fall! What is Gamehaus? An “omni-functional event space that will be operating a:

Sporting Club
Live Entertainment Venue
Beer Hall
Restaurant
Retro Arcade & Table Games

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The Baroness Bar Owner Taking Corner Bistro Spot On Vernon Blvd

March 17, 2021 by editor 3 Comments

47-18 Vernon Blvd LIC — once a bar & grill, always a bar & grill!

ST. PADDY”S DAY is the perfect occasion to break the news that another bar & grill is coming to Vernon Boulevard! The owners of The Baroness Bar and the The Huntress Bar, both located in Dutch Kills, are bringing their show and vittles to 47-18 Vernon Boulevard, previously home to The Corner Bistro which closed last year.

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Super Bowl LIC-style & R40 Restaurant Opens

January 31, 2020 by editor 1 Comment

My usual Super Bowl routine is a Swanson Salisbury Steak Dinner washed down with a quartet of cosmopolitans. According to the label this meal provides 43% of the saturated fat and 31% of the sodium that my body requires every day and a lesson in chemistry I didn’t pass in high school.

Or I could amble down to John Brown Smokehouse where …Whoa, this place is jam-packed with crazed football fans decked out in red and white, didn’t realize this was the NYC meeting place for Niner fans! Looks like I will be trekking back to my ground floor hovel in an unglamorous stretch of LIC near the Mongolian border to watch the Bay City Niners battle Shakira ‘KC’ Lopez.

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LONG ISLAND CITY 2019 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP

January 29, 2019 by editor 1 Comment

Goin’ where the chilly winds don’t blow
Goin’ where the chilly winds don’t blow
Goin’ where those chilly winds don’t blow
I don’t want to be treated this away

IF ever I give consideration to opening a restaurant in LIC/NYC, I need but utter three words to myself and the inspiration will instantly dissipate: Mothership Meat Company. The lengthy timetable for getting this restaurant open in Dutch Kills is enough to crush any prospect of a decent IRR, not to mention a BBQ-lover’s soul.

Thus, I have decided to list all three returnees from last year in the Coming Soon category as opposed to the “Not-So-Soon” category in the hopes that their dreams, and ours, will be realized.

Despite Amazon’s not-so-imminent arrival and the bounty of retail space being created at the ground level of the many towers going up, there have been surprisingly [Read more…] about LONG ISLAND CITY 2019 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP