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REVIEW: FRANKLIN SQUARE MARKET BAR-RESTAURANT
One of Saratoga’s Best Restaurants is in a Supermarket. Should The Market Bar and Restaurant in Franklin Square Market Make Saratoga’s Best Restaurant Lists?
GUEST SHIFT: PIA BAZZANI, The Maker Hotel
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.
TASTE: ALIAS — A martini alias for The Maker scent
The Maker Hotel scent collection meets its match in Pia Bazzani’s curated cocktails designed to evoke the same mood.
TASTE: TWILIGHT GARDEN —The Maker Lounge
In The Maker Lounge, Pia Bazzani’s Twilight Garden captures the early signs of spring.
MEET: NICK AFRICANO, MIRADOR, KINGSTON
At Mirador in Kingston, Nick Africano, a musician, certified sherry educator + restaurateur, talks art, hospitality + Andalucía.
TASTE: MARTINI RAMIRO—When Sherry Met Tequila
At Mirador, head bartender Seth Jones serves the Martini Ramiro, a revelation of sherry, tequila and pickled ginger brine.
TAPAS MENU SETS THE PACE FOR THE WILD HORSE UNDER NOAH’S TEAM
🫒INTEL — From Noah’s to The Wild Horse. Executive Chefs + longtime friends, Dylan Burkhart + Noah Frese, collaborate on a new tapas identity for the popular Saratoga Springs bar.
🫒INTEL—NEOVISTA OPENS THE VAULT + IZAKAYA KINKO at 60 STATE
🫒INTEL — NEOVISTA OPENS ITS VAULT at 60 STATE
🫒EXCLUSIVE: SOLEVO RESTAURATEUR RONNIE SOLEVO TEASES NEW SARATOGA PROJECT, ‘THE PEARL’
🫒EXCLUSIVE: SOLEVO KITCHEN RESTAURATEUR RONNIE SOLEVO TEASES HIS NEXT PROJECT, THE PEARL
GUEST SHIFT: SETH JONES, Mirador
Seth Jones, Head Bartender at Mirador in Kingston talks fine art photography, building community + sherry cocktails.
IS THIS MELON FLUFF MILK PUNCH THE COOLEST COCKTAIL IN SARATOGA?
Hamlet & Ghost Bar Director Sonia Castellani is known for her culinary, clarified cocktails. Here she combines the fresh fruit of her French childhood with marshmallow fluff + milk tea.
TASTE: KRAKOA — Channeling Utopia at {pretty to think so}
Channeling a Marvel Universe Utopia, Keshonn Hatcher blends Japanese sake with tiki indulgence for a taste of spring.
IN A NEW ROLE AT MORRISSEY’S, BAR MANAGER SHA BHATTI CRAFTS A KYOTO ALIBI
In a new bar manager role at Morrissey’s Lounge at The Adelphi in Saratoga Springs, Sha Bhatti shares his inspiration for a Kyoto Alibi.
TASTE: THE GYRO-INSPIRED “GYBSON” MARTINI
Milas bar director Andrew Patterson finds inspiration for this Gibson riff in a lamb gyro.
TASTE: Apricot + almond leads in Sonia Castellani’s subtle SMOKE SHOW
Hamlet & Ghost Bar Director Sonia Castellani takes mezcal in a more subtle direction with almond and apricot.
SEAN JOSEPHS, MASTER BLENDER of Pinhook Bourbon, talks about the Saratoga Maiden custom blend + why he thinks like a winemaker.
For the official launch of Saratoga Maiden at Lucy’s in Saratoga, we talked with Pinhook Bourbon’s master blender, Sean Josephs about creating a Saratoga blend, his winemaker approach, and the future of American whiskey.
MEET: VERONICA AGAMA, Viva Empanadas Latin Grill + Wine, Latham + Albany
Veronica Agama—Latina, mother, entrepreneur + chef—talks food trucks, the diversity of Latin cooking + moving her Viva Empanadas business upstate.
— We also have her exclusive announcement of a new third location!
REVIEW: BLOOM, Albany
Upper New Scotland Ave in Albany’s Helderberg neighborhood is quietly blooming. We review Bloom Boutique Bar & Eatery, a new all-day new American restaurant inside The Rise/Midtown Square apartment complex.
GUEST SHIFT: SONIA CASTELLANI, Hamlet & Ghost
Sonia Castellani, bar director of Hamlet & Ghost in Saratoga Springs, talks about growing up in France, the importance of culinary flavors + the women who inspired her career.
ART BAR? 3 UPSTATE BARS WHERE ART IS THE DRAW
Is art best served in a bar? In Hudson, Troy and Schenectady, these 3 bar owners are drawing a crowd.