Eat & Drink

25 Dec 2010

Alisha’s 2nd Annual White Trash Tree Trimming

If you’re hanging around the city this holiday season, you may be tempted to park yourself on a lonely bar stool and drink a year’s worth of sorrows away.  While I support that in theory, I must insist that alcohol is best served with friends (or surrogate friends as it

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25 Dec 2010

Christmas Cookie Recipes for You Lazy City Folk

I write this post from the comfort of my parents’ couch. Later on today, I’m planning to do some baking and dirty up as many dishes as possible just because they have a dishwasher. But if you’re sticking around NYC for the holiday weekend, making a giant mess in your

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25 Dec 2010

Celebrate the Holidays – The Caloric Way!

Today is Christmas, and I’m planning on spending the afternoon cooking and baking with my family before settling down for Christmas dinner and a movie in front of the fire.  Regardless of your cultural affiliation with the holiday, there’s never a bad time to be baking in the wintertime, so

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24 Dec 2010

Schmooze This Christmas at Brooklyn Bowl

Somewhere along the line, the folks over at Brooklyn Bowl recognized the Jew’s Christmas hardship. On a day where evergreens and messianic mangers dominate, its easy for the non-Christmas-celebrating-few to feel a bit left out. Which is why Brooklyn’s favorite bowling alley last year launched Matzah Bowl, a winning combination

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22 Dec 2010

Mulled Wine, Snacks, and Artisan Crafts at Real Mercantile Tonight!

The Christmas countdown is getting intense — only three more days until I get to sit nervously around a table with 20 relatives and their annoying kids, wondering if my sister will spill a full glass of red wine on my cream-colored dress again (true story) or my boyfriend will

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20 Dec 2010

FREE Pizza Party at Pauline’s Pizza for their 25th Anniversary

Pauline’s Pizza has been holding it dow in the Mission for 25 years and now they wanna party about it.  How are they gonna do this?  By feeding your face with their delicious pizza, that’s how! Tomorrow, is Pauline’s 25th Anniversary so they’re having a pizza party from 6-10 pm.

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20 Dec 2010

50% Off Cupcakes at Cups and Cakes Bakery!!

Considering that this is the last Broke Bucks of the year, I wanted to make sure that I came correct, and what better way to do that than to make sure you get a sugar high. Right? I mean you’re already planning on heading back to the gym on January 2nd, so why not indulge yourself a little bit more during this holiday season and eat some motherfucking cupcakes?

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19 Dec 2010

Enter the Gates of Hash Brown Heaven at Irving Street Cafe

Everyone knows that the cornerstone of a good breakfast, what separates the just-okay ones with the amazing ones, are perfect hash browns.  Now, I am aware that there are differing schools of thought on what the perfect hash brown actually entails, but the consensus in my circle (which essentially entails

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