Food & Drink

With record store closing announcements from major chain retailers, U.S. average retail vacancy rate … [+] this year is expected to rise to a seven-year high, hitting cities like New York the hardest. Andria Cheng Coronavirus has led to a record number of U.S. store closings in 2020 and to Manhattan’s retail rents plunging to

Gainful has raised $7.5 million in series A funding to expand its personalized nutrition business. © Emily Hawkes Photography 2020 Personalized sports nutrition company Gainful has raised a $7.5 million series A funding after seeing its revenues more than double over the past year. The funding round was co-led by BrandProject and Courtside Ventures with

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY – FEBRUARY 25: White Claw Flavor Collection No. 2 on February 25, 2020 in … [+] Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Christopher Lane/Getty Images for White Claw) Getty Images for White Claw While White Claw and Truly still control the lion’s share of the hard seltzer market, 75% as of

Local producers have been fighting large factory-made camembert for the past 20 years to stop use of … [+] the protected designation of origin (AOP) label. AFP via Getty Images Camembert traditionally comes from Normandy, in the north of France, and for the past twenty years there has been a war waging between small producers

Westland Distillery Peat Week Westland Distillery The past 10 months have seen a lot of traditional in-person events go virtual, and today Westland Distillery in Seattle announced plans to bring its seventh-annual Peat Week online as well. And it’s in good company. In October the Great American Beer Festival went entirely online, and last month Russian

Mexico City has a range of foods from all across the country. Some staples include ceviche, mole, and pozole. We explored the city with $50 USD to see what kinds of food we could buy. MORE BI TODAY CONTENT: We Tried A Vegan Delivery Service That Costs $18K Per Year Why Peanut Butter Is No

tea in getty Today happens to be something someone made up as National Hot Toddy Day. It’s also the middle of January, when many of us are in need of a proper, soul-warming defrost. Toddies are soothing, delicious and highly restorative, but so are many other types of hot cocktails.  Bars that have kept up

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 02: Seedlip. Photographed for the Food Section of The Washington Post via … [+] Getty Images in Washington DC. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post via Getty Images; food styling by Amanda Soto/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post via Getty Images Our drinking habits changed drastically over 2020.

Sheep are increasingly being used to avoid pesticides in champagne production–these are in the … [+] Lacourte-Godbillon vineyards in Ecueil, near Champagne, France. AFP via Getty Images It’s been a difficult year for the champagne industry for a number of reasons. Without anything to celebrate during Covid-19, sales of the bubbly plummeted by as much

Hot drink cocktail for New Year, Christmas, winter or autumn holidays. Toddy. Mulled pear cider or … [+] spiced tea or grog with lemon, pear, cinnamon, anise, cardamom, rosemary. getty Monday (January 11th) is officially “National Hot Toddy Day.” While admittedly the fake holidays are a little bogus, a Hot Toddy is anything but. The

Many places in New York’s Chinatown sell soup dumplings, or Xiao Long Bao, but Joe’s Shanghai is the most famous for the dish. The restaurant says it was the first to bring soup dumplings to New York City, and first opened in Flushing in 1995 and in Chinatown a year later. The dumplings come in

Denny’s has had an especially difficult time lately. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education … [+] Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The surge in COVID cases this winter has been unkind to restaurants, but it’s been especially cruel to sit-down chain restaurants. A new report from Placer.ai, which studies

Champagne (unsurprisingly) reigned this New Year’s Eve for North America’s largest alcohol … [+] marketplace getty In one of the most unprecedented New Year’s Eve in memory, what was the nation sipping on? Bubbles, tequila and hard seltzer according to Drizly, North America’s largest e-commerce alcohol marketplace. New Years’ Eve was the biggest night of

Eric Ripert (on the left), the chef at Le Bernadin, partners with Johan Pesenti, who runs Stone … [+] Street Coffee, to develop a new brand of coffee, Stone Street Signature. Leandro Justen Respected French chef Eric Ripert from Le Bernadin, one of the most revered restaurants in Manhattan, developed a new blend of coffee,

A knob of ginger like the one shown here is mixed with water, sugar and a touch of lemon to make a … [+] potent syrup that turns into a DIY Ginger Beer. Using the syrup and sparkling water allows you to customize the ginger flavor in your cocktails and a myriad of other uses.

Partake Foods founder and CEO Denise Woodard wants to help move the funding needle for other entrepreneurs of color. Courtesy of Partake Foods Ahead of the new year, the For(bes) The Culture community predicted that Black and Brown entrepreneurs would have more access to funding in 2021, with more venture capitalists of color stepping up

While plastics blanket the planet, the food and beverage industry is looking at how to make … [+] sustainable packaging– recycling, reusing and (sometimes) replacing plastic. getty Few things are more recognizable than the Coca-Cola bottle, which debuted in 1916 with a sleek design that helped make it an icon. Over the years, its glass

After securing $18 million in Series A funding, startup New Wave Foods will bringing a plant-based shrimp alternative to restaurants and cafeterias this year. New Wave Foods Shrimp is the top seafood eaten in America, and a women-led startup is now bringing a plant-based alternative made from seaweed and mung bean to market, thanks to

COVID, as we know, has made the vulnerable among us even more so. Not only has unemployment skyrocketed, many of the low-wage hourly workers who do have shifts scheduled must choose whether to stay home and stay safe or keep earning a paycheck by potentially exposing themselves to virus transmission in the workplace. Though conditions

Billy Goat Tavern, established in 1934, is a burger institution in Chicago, known for its double cheeseburger made with thin, all-natural beef patties served on a kaiser-roll bun. The original restaurant — which was a tavern across from the Chicago Stadium — was born when a goat fell off a passing truck and wandered into