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Issue No. 69 - The Hot Tea Issue
It’s Susie with the dishes, drinks, art + fashion collabs we’re most excited about this fall and, as always, the creative industry people behind them.

Eater says tea is the hot new thing… but our tea is hotter this week!

We have the exclusive news on the opening of two new downtown Albany restaurants from former NeoVista Hospitality COO John Hwang. His two concepts are the eponymous J.C. Hwang, a Sichuan restaurant with global all-day, all-you-can-eat menus in the former Dale Miller/Taste at 30 S. Pearl St. + Robata Albany, a standalone robatayaki/outdoor grill experience on the patio. → Read our story here.

Industry news: NY Mets legend + baseball Hall of Famer Mookie Wilson is bringing his Legacy BBQ to Albany along with an infusion of baseball as he takes on Wilson’s War Room in partnership with founding-owner, Todd Shapiro. | In East Greenbush, Grand Margaritas Brunch + Mexican Restaurant is expanding its strip mall footprint with an additional 2,500 square feet for an adjoining bar + lounge. | The Grotto Tiki Bar is officially open at The Night Owl in Saratoga Springs. | Mario Cardenas has purchased property across from his West Ave Pizza and Chicken strip mall location in Saratoga where he plans to build out a two-floor Mario & Sons pizzeria + bar in partnership with his son, Chris Cardenas, owner of pop up pizzeria, A Strada.

And in this issue, we talk with Alicia Brown of Edible Uprising Farm + sip an extra virgin olive oil Clover Club in Kingston.

Coming up: In arts news, our events side, dishing.studio, is putting on an experiential food x art event on November 13 in collaboration with the Light & Transient Causes show by Marisa Espe at the Opalka Gallery. | Check back for our updated events calendar featuring our fall Snacky Hour, TINY Talk + Sit With Us dinner.

Finally, thanks to Senator Chris Ryan + the Dishing subscribers who came to our TINY Talk at the Lucas Confectionery last Wednesday. And a shout out to the hospitality pros who came to Monday’s Raise The Bar, a 1/2 day wellness reset at June Farms! Tell your team!

From fine art to farming, from Boulder to Troy, Alicia Brown gives us the low down on the founding of their Edible Uprising Farm, a regenerative, urban farm, swapping oil painting for soil restoration + a creative director role for motherhood, plus her recovery from a shocking attack by two roaming pit bulls earlier this year.

“Once I started farming, it felt like I had found what I'd spent all those years in the art world searching for: something made with my hands that could have an impact far beyond the moment of its creation. The rest is history. And yes, apparently my alternate life as a portrait painter in Paris never quite materialized!” - AB

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BIG INTEL | SMALL PRINT

🫒 It’s the Capital Roots Autumn Evening fundraiser this Weds. 9/23 with 30 area chefs.
🫒 Suntory x Itameshi Albany is hosting a Suntory happy hour on Thurs 9/24 from 4-6pm
🫒 Lucas Confectionery is hosting Brooklyn’s Faccia Brutto for an amaro happy hour on Friday 9/25 from 7 to 9 pm.
🫒 Saturday 9/26 is Wolff’s Biergarten Oktoberfest block party from 11am to 6 pm on Broadway in the Warehouse District of Albany
🫒 Saturday 9/26 is also a donation-based community care healing day with multiple modalities at Yesfolk,Troy, for a book launch of Plants to the People by Herban Cura.
🫒 All Of Us Events is hosting Sundaze, A Summer’s End Disco at Gaffney’s this Sun. 9/27 at 4pm, feat. DJ Robbie Leslie of Studio 54! Tickets + details here.
🫒 Dinner is sold out for the Regional Food Bank CHEFS: BIG APPLE on Tues 9/29, but you can still get tickets for the tasting experience featuring 20 area chefs.
🫒 The last of the Lil Deb’s Oasis (Hudson) “End of Life” guest chef series is Mon. 9/28, with the block party finale on 10/4. More info here.
🫒 Fashion on the Farm takes place at The Seed Farm in Ghent on 10/3 in support of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with a debut collection by designer Neville Wisdom.
🫒 Nick Africano. Mirador, Kingston, hosts his annual NYC Sherry Wine Fair on 10/4.
🫒 FUSION: The Anti-Gala Fundraiser for the Albany Barn artists-in-residence is on 10/16