Stir up a true New Yorker summer cocktail with Neverstill Riesling + C. Cassis blackcurrant liqueur.

Haema Hospitality has been popping up all over the Hudson Valley from breweries to bookstores with chef Hannah Wong and her partner SJ McLaughlin reimagining Asian street food with a Hudson Valley farm twist.

Suwun Thai Home Cooking is the new home of Brooklyn Thai restaurant Ghang Thai Kitchen in the former Cuckoo’s Nest in Albany’s Pine Hills. Upscale but warmly welcome, the menu reads as a best hits of Thai classics with Thai-inspired cocktails in flavors from tamarind to coconut-ginger.

Ask the expert: Mixologist Madeline Dillon solves a cocktail dilemma with recipes for 2 batched cocktails this summer. Move over Negronis, and batch Dillon’s Hot Tomato Margarita or Peach Whiskey Sour.

3 spots you need to know when you’re hungry at the Albany-Rensselaer train station: Son of Egg, Shwe Burmese + Illusive Restaurant & Bar.

Jenny Love Lee + Tommy Ballinger opened Tommy Boy, a seasonal Korean food cart in the waterfront River Garden of The Stewart House, as a love letter to Korean culture through the lens of Hudson Valley farms.

Casita at Mass MoCA is a love letter to the tiny villages of Mexico with regional dishes, house-made tortillas and moles, and excellent cocktails and mezcals sourced during visits to producers.

Move over espresso martini. Meet the Latin carajillo at Casita.

INTEL: 3 spots you need to know this summer for outdoor dining. Banh mi for your picnic. Burgers for the park playhouse. Taco truck, bbq and live music on an apple farm.

Adam Minegar, owner of Hemlock in Catskill, talks theater, making the 2025 Esquire best bar list, and opening a craft cocktail bar in a small town upstate.

Tuscan Bakery is not Italian but Turkish. Go for fresh made bread, Turkish böreği, kol börek, sweet pastries and imported Turkish delight. Stay for Turkish coffee, breakfast, menemen, or tea.

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.

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August Rosa, music promoter and bar owner, talks Dive Presents Pint Sized, analogue living, and where to get the best Jamaican beef patties on earth.

Saba Cafe & Hookah Lounge is on the 2nd floor up a steep flight of stairs above the Saba al Yemen (formerly Sheba al Yemen) on Central Ave. With a cafe menu of coffees, pastries and smoothies it is family friendly by day, and a hookah lounge with monthly events during the evening.

Where to go for the best fried chicken in the Capital Region. Our top 5 crushes should be your top 5 too.

Daisuki is a Tokyo-style record bar Tucked inside a former walk-in ATM vestibule on 2nd Street in Troy with just 14 seats, Japanese highballs, sake overpours + eclectic snacks.

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.

Wine Director, Paula Patterson, and chef-tattoo artist Tony Angelicola, of The Pony Show talk travel, tattoos + why they like to cook on a farm.

Collin Badger, the creative behind Oktah’s sound and vision, talks records, merging audio + visual art, his favorite Chinese spots in Glens Falls, and the future of DJing.