Pinkerton’s Bakery (Kingston) in an iconic 1920s art deco gas station is home to the fantastic bread and pastries by James Beard Award-winning Angela Pinkerton, a former executive pastry chef of Eleven Madison Park. We love it enough to make a pilgrimage.

Cafe Euphoria in Troy, NY is an inclusive, worker-owned + operated cafe/restaurant with a thrift store and co-working space. It serves breakfast and lunch with a dinner menu on weekends.

First set alight and then cooled off with aloe and ice, “Sunburn” is an off-menu cocktail at The Hill, in Troy, a rebrand of The Hill at Muza by new owner Jonathan Blanchard.