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...

You know a place is good when you're standing outside, waiting for your fellow diners, and you overhear passersby saying things like, "This is my favorite ____ place!"  This was the case for me at Bhatti, and Indian restaurant in Curry Hill (geographically speaking, Murray Hill in the 20s and Lexington Avenue).  I noticed a lot of people entering while I stood outside and several people, in fact, spoke to each other in high praise of the restaurant while meandering past. The ambiance was a bit different from the Indian restaurants I'm used to.  It's more modern/edgy/romantic...definitely less traditional and homey and there was no Indian man dressed in traditional garb playing a sitar in the corner (this you might find in New York's Brick Lane, a.k.a. 6th Street area). We ordered a round of appetizers and entrees to share, including a dish of tandoori-roasted stuffed potatoes, paneer (Indian cheese), and an assortment of naan bread.  Our appetize...