Executive Chef Jonas Offenbach of Serre at The Maker Hotel on collecting vintage cookbooks, building a team upstate + why Serre feels deeply personal.

Pia Bazzoni, F+B Director at The Maker Hotel in Hudson, talks culinary cocktails, growing up in restaurants + crafting cocktails inspired by The Maker’s perfumes.

The Maker Hotel scent collection meets its match in Pia Bazzani’s curated cocktails designed to evoke the same mood.

You want tacos. We’ve got tacos. This is THE TACO HIT LIST.

UPDATE: Linger over a Long Lunch or lazy wines in a garage now officially named Merkin. Cafe Mutton’s chef-owner Shaina Loew-Banayan dishes the details on their new addition + its bushy backstory.

Haema Hospitality announces their first brick-and-mortar in a spring move to Hudson. They’re taking over the former Bar Bene wine bar on Warren Street and building owner, Marie Wong, is thrilled.

We ask 7 bartenders if zero-proof cocktails are here to stay. They’re all in.

Klocke Estate Head Distiller Caleb Gregg talks land stewardship, the romance of brandy production, and the key role of time.

A month after opening, we take a peek at the decor, cocktails + plates of Ambos, an Argentinian-inspired restaurant with Hudson Valley inclinations, inside the 70,000-square foot Hudson handbag factory reimagined as The Pocketbook Hudson Hotel + Baths.

Bless up with inner luv for our favorite Jamaican spots

Tiny cocktails are popping up everywhere including the new Flyback flight at Klocke Estate

Where to go for (really good) tacos

Executive chef Éfrén Hernandez of Casa Susanna at Camptown in Leeds and Rivertown Lodge in Hudson, talks masa, movies, James Beard noms + his passion for modern Mexican cuisine.

Christy Counts, the founder of Neverstill Wines, talks about the Finger Lakes, wine cocktails, opening in Hudson + her passion for animal welfare.

Via Cassia is a fun, bustling Italian restaurant on lower Warren Street with a focus on simple, Mediterranean flavors, Hudson Valley farm ingredients, and a Californian twist.

Where to go for pickle cocktails

Quinn Rose Levine crafted Ya Heard as a riff on a Last Word using mostly New York made alcohol. Available at Quinnie’s in Ghent.