If Monday is the new Friday, you’ll need this list of 9 downtown Albany restaurants and bars open for dinner or late night menus.

We paired Korean chef-designer, Jenny Love Lee, and Tommy Ballinger of TOMMY BOY with DJ Ryan Parker and asked: “If this dish were a track, what would it sound like?”

Leaning into fall apple picking, Brent Hunter’s Apple Bottoms Up is clearly an apple crisp in a glass at 353 in Troy.

Exec. Chef Elliott Vogel talks foraging, creativity + the benefits of a simple life.

Rachael Petach, founder of C. Cassis blackcurrant liqueur and the C. Cassis Tasting Room in Rhinebeck, talks hospitality, dreaming up her logo, preserving blackcurrants + crafting green tomato cocktails.

An ode to late summer tomatoes. Rachael Petach’s vegetal, sippable Green Tomato Spritz.

With a little Euro flair to its historic downtown, Glens Falls is leaning in to a flourishing restaurant scene. We checked out the latest openings for 5 restaurants + a bar you need to know.

An ode to late summer tomatoes. Rachael Petach’s vegetal, sippable Green Tomatini.

We’ve got you covered from Troy to Beacon. Where to go + what to sip.

Keshonn Hatcher draws inspiration from his mother’s beauty salon in Promise of Eden at {pretty to think so} in Rhinebeck.

Keshonn Hatcher, bar director at {pretty to think so} in Rhinebeck talks about living in Tokyo, farm-to-table cocktails, tattoos, the Marines + prioritizing his mental health.

We paired Chef Colin Miner of Bistro LeRoux with DJ H.B. Monte and asked: “If this dish were a track, what would it sound like?”

DJ and events promoter, Shane Stiel of All Of Us, talks Jess King, Chubby’s burritos, the healing frequency of sound, and why clubs are not dead.

Bartender, beekeeper and balloon business owner Nina Young talks hospitality, Cali-sober living, and the art of balancing 4 jobs.

Free your mind + the rest will follow. Kat Dunn’s latest cocktail at Padrona needs No ice.

Zach Wolfgramm, bar manager of Kindred in Saratoga, talks mountains, tattoos, graffiti art + running a (nearly) waste-free bar.

Chef Miles Murphy talks Jamaican bickle, X-box, discovering the sweet side of culinary + becoming chef de cuisine at 21-years old.

A waste-free cucumber agua fresca by Zach Wolfgramm at Kindred, Saratoga

We paired Executive Chef Alex Lempka of Hamlet & Ghost with DJ TruMastr and asked: “If this dish were a track, what would it sound like?”

Inspired by love + a riff on a French 77, Zach Wolfgramm, bar manager of Kindred in Saratoga, presents Prettier In Pink