Featuring Ed's Lobster Bar, Starbucks, and St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl.
Live free. Dine well. Drink good beer. And, enjoy Rare Weekend.
SURF’S UP
Ed McFarland, Pearl Oyster Bar’s sous-chef of the last six years, opens Ed’s Lobster Bar in Nolita tomorrow. Items on the lobster-iffic menu top off at $20, including fried calamari with spicy San Marzano tomato sauce, lobster pot pie, lobster rolls, and whole lobster steamed or grilled.
Ed’s Lobster Bar, 222 Lafayette (at Spring Street), (212) 343-3236, lobsterbarnyc.com.
FREE JOE
Coffee Break! Get caffeinated with a complimentary cup of coffee at all Starbucks locations, today only, from 10 a.m. to Noon.
Consult Starbucks Coffee Break website.
DINE WELL
Dine In Brooklyn Restaurant Week runs from March 19th through 30th. Nearly 200 of the borough’s restaurants offer prix-fixe lunches and dinners for just $21.12.
Dine in Brooklyn Restaurant Week, (718) 802-3846, visitbrooklyn.org.
HIGH STEAKS
Sample 10 different wines for $10, in addition to the cost of a meal, at Smith & Wollensky, Maloney & Porcelli, Quality Meats, Cité, Post House, and Park Avenue Café.
Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group’s National Wine Week, nationalwineweek.com.
BEER HOP
With St. Paddy’s falling on Saturday, take advantage with the St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl. $25 gets you a cup, complimentary admission to 3rd Avenue bars, and $1 beer and $2 well drinks the whole night. 5 p.m. beginning at the Village Pourhouse.
Village Pourhouse, 64 3rd Avenue (at 11th Street), (212) 979-2337, pourhousenyc.com.
MALT BALL
Silverleaf tavern inaugurates a Friday Night Flights program tomorrow with single malt scotch pours. Experience three one-ounce tastes from the lounge’s selection of esteemed whiskies for $24.95 from 5 p.m. to midnight.
Silverleaf tavern, 43 East 38th Street (at Park Avenue South), (212) 973-2550, silverleaftavern.com.
SHOP TALK
Bblessing reduces remaining winter stock (Rag & Bone, Yoko Devereaux) by 50%.
Bblessing, 181 Orchard Street (at Houston Street), (212) 378-8005, Bblessing.com.
Feeling sexy-time? Get to Dwell’s sale for Egyptian cotton duvet and sham sets - now, under one hundred bucks. Today, through April 15.
Dwell, 62 Greene Street (between Spring and Broome Streets), (212) 219-9343.
