Veritasty: Truthfully Delicious

When we heard the Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival's 10th Anniversary Tour was rolling into town, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to have a belly full of beer, bourbon, and barbecue.  This weekend at The Tunnel, a really cool industrial-looking venue on the West Side, we certainly feasted on some familiar favorites when it comes to beer, strong spirits, and bacon-y barbecue.  The early session of the day was mainly focused on bacon, whereas the later session had more of a focus on the whole hog (as demonstrated by the whole hog pulled pork demo at the Porkus Maximus stand).  I thought the whole event was really well-organized and carefully thought-out, from the glass cups that you carried from table to table to reduce waste of a billion plastic cups to the frequent water stations and buckets for rinsing residual booze from said cups. The Tunnel is shaped very much like it sounds, a long cavernous hallway running the length of an avenue.  On...

Oh, brunch.  The beautiful meal for beautiful weekends when the weather is finally warming up and the skies are sunny and blue and the snow from yesterday's storm is melting away.  A meal that is supposed to be a hybrid of breakfast and lunch foods but can be eaten even into the late afternoon before spending the rest of the day wandering and discovering the city's great treasures. This weekend, we had a lovely brunch at Fatty 'Cue with a group of friends.  I've heard a lot of good things about Zac Pelacchio's Fatty Crew, which includes Fatty 'Cue and Fatty Crab, both located in the West Village.  How I'm guessing the story goes: American Chef goes to Asia, has an gastronomic epiphany, goes back to America to cook fusion Asian food for hipster New Yorkers.  Anyway, I'm very thankful for whoever persuaded Chef Pelacchio to make his sojourn because I loved Fatty 'Cue and I can't wait to visit its cousin Fatty Crab. When we first arriv...