Barclays Center will host its first-ever beer festival. Barclays Center is home to the NBA team Brooklyn Nets, but with such a large and new facilities, new events are being put into the arena. On October 25, it will host a beer festival. Many lauded craft brewers like Florida’s Cigar City, Michigan’s Founders, New York’s War Flag are all expected to be participating in the event. This event will potentially attract all beer lovers and food lovers.
Food lovers will have the opportunity to taste celebrity chef Josh Capon’s Bash Burger, five-time winner of the New York Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash and other award-winning foods. Not only will craft beer, wine tasting and renowned foods be available but will also have interactive games like large-scale beer pong and Jenga. Moreover, Sunday Football will be streaming through TV’s.
General admissions tickets to each session of three hours is sold at $29 for early bird until September 2nd. The admissions ticket includes a souvenir cup and drink samples. VIP access tickets include early entrance 30 minutes prior to general admissions, and access to Calvin Klein Coursed Club, exclusive craft beer tastings, and televisions for Sunday Football games.
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Amazon’s new implemented delivery service in an hour, has expanded to providing delivery of beer, wine, and liquor. Amazon wants to offer all things delivery to all their Prime membership people. While this service is only available in Seattle, Amazon has high hopes of expanding the hour delivery service to other states in America.
Airports are often a dreaded destination. While many are anxious for their flights, factors of flight delays, flavorless in-flight
Eater asked New York’s best food critics to anonymously share their frustrations about the restaurant industry. A total of 26 complaints were complied to help owners and businesses in NYC’s restaurant scene to avoid bad criticism from food writers.
Over the past five years, Starbucks has been implementing plans to sell wine, craft beer and small plates. While Starbucks is already an international hub for coffee, they are expanding into a larger scale of beverages. This week, 24 new locations will enact in the “Starbucks Evenings” program. Starbucks locations in Brooklyn, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Atlanta have been secured liquor licenses and are the initiatives to this new program.
“It’s not an industry you get into because you want to make a lot of money. It’s really because you love it,” says Marina Halpern, owner of Padoca Bakery. While many other restaurant businesses are struggling to keep their businesses in New York City with its high rent, health department inspections and increased competition, Halperin persisted in opening a bakery-café on the Upper East Side. She believed their location would contribute to the community as a local gathering spot, for both residents and the many hospital workers in the area. Moreover, no one is doing specialty coffee in the neighborhood.
After three summers filled with hundreds of vendors, and thousands of foodies, Smorgasburg is moving their location from Brooklyn Bridge Park to Prospect Park. While many could have enjoyed the views of Manhattan’s Skyline while eating at their Takumi Taco, now, visitors can enjoy their foods in seated shaded areas. Eric Demby, Brooklyn Flea co-founder, says “We’re sad to leave Brooklyn Bridge Park, but it’s hard to complain when our new home is literally Brooklyn’s backyard.”
A rise in the women’s movement for equal opportunities in the job force has lead many countries and companies to enforce this movement. Recently, the government of Japan has been encouraging women to take on previously male-dominated roles in an attempt to increase the country’s workforce. Japan was 
Todd Carmichael, CEO of La Colombe, has big plans for his business and with the help of a brand-new investor, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya, he plans to expand his business quickly. Carmichael wants to innovate new ways of drinking coffee, like his recent success of his draft lattes (made form cold-brewed coffee and frothed milk). La Colombe is planning to expand by having food offerings, including Chobani, canned lattes in grocery stores, and opening new shops in every major U.S city.
Their Success…While temperature and humidity levels are at its extremes in New York City, New Yorkers and tourists alike are taking their spare time along the highline. The highline boasts as an iconic glimpse into the past and present of New York City where people can indulge in both nature and the city’s skylines on a historic walkway. A common thread for people walking the highline is that people are looking for ways to escape the summer heat. It is almost inevitable for people to not seek a fresh, cold relief. La Newyorkina utilizes this demand and conveniently stands on 30th St. and 17th St. attracting many consumers with their ice pop cart. La Newyorkina serves paletas, a traditional Mexican ice pop, in an array of flavors that change seasonally. They have both regular sized paletas, at $4, and mini sized paletas, at $1. The mini sized paletas is a popular choice for children as the “regular sized” paletas are deemed to run a lot bigger than an average ice pop.
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