Will Hartman

5 days ago | theinfatuation.com | Will Hartman

If riding a bike to breweries is how you like to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon, plug Finback’s original warehouse-brewery space in Glendale into your GPS. They have 12 beers on tap at any given time, from the two flagship IPAs to a 17% barrel-aged imperial stout thicker than bottled chocolate sauce (and looks like it, too). There are plenty of tables in the taproom, surrounded by a rickhouse worth of barrels, each aging beer experiments.

6 days ago | theinfatuation.com | Will Hartman

Having chefs cook your food is well and good, but you know what’s really fun? Moseying up to a refrigerator, grabbing a handful of skewers speared with things like brisket, lamb neck, and abalone, and grilling them yourself. That’s exactly what you’ll do at the first NYC outpost of Chubby Skewers, a Northeastern Chinese barbecue chain. The Midtown restaurant—with two sprawling floors that can easily accommodate groups of four on low-to-the-ground seats—is a lot of smoky fun.

6 days ago | theinfatuation.com | Will Hartman

In Hell’s Kitchen, Hudson Vu is a rooftop bar and restaurant where the caviar comes on a brioche tea sandwich, along with uni and burrata. For those of you who find yourselves unable to handle any length of time between an evening martini and a morning matcha, they also have a  “matchatini” cocktail. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists.

6 days ago | theinfatuation.com | Will Hartman

L’Arte Del Gelato has a seventh location, this time in Williamsburg. It’s right off the Bedford Avenue L stop, so you can eat your sour cherry gelato on the train if you want. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists.

6 days ago | theinfatuation.com | Will Hartman

This small ramen shop in Flushing not only ladles out the tonkotsu, shoyu, spicy miso and mushroom ramen, but they also have a few rice bowls. Plus matcha—but in the form of pudding. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists.