New York: Wining and Dining
Loreley Beer Garden and Restaurant, Brooklyn Review
One doesn’t have to go to Germany to find a reasonably authentic Biergarten. In fact, in New York City, there’s a new Biergarten adjacent to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on the site of a former filling station.
Loreley, the Brooklyn outpost of a popular Manhattan Biergarten of the same name, is festooned with Radeberger umbrellas and communal pine tables and benches. While it doesn’t have shady chestnut trees, it does have one …
Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar, New York
One block from Carnegie Hall in New York, just visited by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic), is the Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar. Seasonal provides a year-round taste of Vienna and is representative of the new generation of Viennese restaurants in Austria and elsewhere that have moved away from the formal, dark, and gilded Habsburg era style to elegant and casual dining.
There is ample reason to go to Seasonal for the …
Xaviar’s at Piermont
A pleasant 40 km (25 mile) drive along the Hudson takes one from midtown Manhattan to the town of Piermont in the Hudson River Valley, where chef and owner Peter X. Kelly offers a seasonal menu that is worth the drive from anywhere in the Northeast.
The elegant restaurant, which seats 40, is small and cozy. The dining room is festive with crystal chandeliers, flowers everywhere, and soft cream colored walls.
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