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Unconventional Conventions
As we turn the corner on six months into the Pandemic and closing out summer we are starting to miss some of the things that were our...
jak00
Sep 17, 20204 min read


How to Build a Great Home Bar: Step by Step – part 1
What will your bar look like? We’ll help you build the menu, you bring the style. Steps: Cut the bullshit by building a night bar, not a...
jak00
Sep 14, 20206 min read


9 Tips on how Wine People Buy Wine
1. We don’t buy $2 wine, ever (you know the one) Just. Don’t. And. Never. Look. Back. It’s. Over. It’s. Ooooooovvvaaa. Sorry to say, but...
jak00
Jun 17, 20204 min read


Retro-Reno Concept: Adaptation Series
Adaptation Series 1 Throwback to Mid-Town Lunch – vending cafes for densely populated cities. The current pandemic is going to populate...
jak00
Jun 17, 20202 min read


Vetri Wine Club
“Saying I like Barolo is like saying I like red wine. It is much too broad a statement for such a varied spectrum of processes and...
jak00
Dec 31, 20133 min read


Big Eats HV Resto Week
It is that special time of the year again, when the best of Hudson Valley restaurants come together to open their doors to locals and...
jak00
Nov 3, 20132 min read


Daytripper: Philly
Philadelphia, like its sister city Paris, is best in the spring. We are nearing the end of the season so get to it while the weather is...
jak00
Jun 17, 20132 min read


Fresh Cup Files: Interview Nico O’Connell of La Colombe
La Colombe is one of the original independent roasters that were born after the juggernaut Starbucks started buying up and dismantling...
jak00
May 24, 20135 min read


Beer, ME
Recently, I took a jaunt up to my hometown of Portland, ME. Being that I grew up there as a boy, I never really got the full scope of...
jak00
May 8, 20133 min read


Fresh Cup Files: Interview Jesse Sweeney of Caffe Umbria
The March issue of Fresh Cup Magazine has been published and is available on their website as well as printed form. F+B’s own Jake Leonti...
jak00
Mar 7, 20136 min read


Restaurant Week in the Hudson Valley
Monday, March 11 marks the beginning of Hudson Valley’s Restaurant Week lasting through March 24th. The event was kicked off on Tuesday...
jak00
Feb 19, 20133 min read


Stop Selling and Start Solving
The public has a bad image of sales people and the idea of sales in general. They are viewed as someone who is trying to lure our money...
jak00
Jan 14, 20133 min read


Port Chester Crawl
Just outside Manhattan between the Bronx and Connecticut lies the under-talked about Port Chester, the “food capitol of Westchester”. A...
jak00
Dec 28, 20122 min read


Farm-to-City
Since Henry Hudson took his journey from New York Harbor up the mighty river (then the North River) to present day Albany, there has been...
jak00
Oct 10, 20123 min read


America’s Wine Cradle
We’re all familiar with the great wines being produced in Napa and Sonoma, but most people forget (or perhaps never knew) the birthplace...
jak00
Oct 8, 20123 min read


Daytripper: Woodstock
If the current election jargon is getting to you and you’ve had just about enough of “the Man”, you should head for the hills as so many...
jak00
Oct 2, 20123 min read


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jak00
Sep 30, 20121 min read


Balkan Wine Project
Last week at Winebow‘s annual Vintner’s Harvest the room was filled with amazing wines from around the world. From the Hudson valley to...
jak00
Sep 26, 20123 min read


Made with Honor, Sold on Hipster
Every so many years a new cool beer is chosen to be the mascot of the poor yet proud educated youth. The newly chosen emblem of awesome...
jak00
Sep 25, 20121 min read


Daytripper – E.L.I.
True, we are past Labor Day but don’t count out Sag Harbor and Shelter Island for your weekend retreat. This is the best time of the year...
jak00
Sep 16, 20122 min read
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