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There are a lot of great places to swirl and swill wine in New York, from the city’s best wine bars to cool wine shops (in case you want to bring a bottle, or three, back home) to local restaurants with world-class vino programs. Now, 200-plus of those NYC restaurants were just honored in Wine Spectator’s 2024 Restaurant Awards.
Every year, Wine Spectator—the American lifestyle magazine that focuses on wine, wine culture and wine ratings—releases its special, annual Restaurant Awards issue, recognizing restaurants whose wine lists offer interesting selections, pair well with their cuisine and appeal to a wide range of wine lovers.
This year’s awards program recognized 3,777 dining destinations from all 50 states in the U.S. and more than 75 countries internationally—they are assigned on three levels: the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence and the Grand Award. (The physical issue, which features chef-restaurateur Daniel Boulud on the cover, will be available to readers on Tuesday, July 9.)
Manhattan restaurants alone occupied 190 spots on the list: among the wine-pouring venues, you’ll find city newcomers like Coqadoq and Café Carmellini alongside tried-and-true New York staples like Gramercy Tavern, Carbone and Sushi Nakazawa. Unsurprisingly, there’s a strong showing by NYC’s best fine-dining restaurants, including Eleven Madison Park, Saga and Gabriel Kreuther, as well as celebratory steakhouses like CUT, Wolfgang’s, Carne Mare and Del Frisco’s. You can check out the full list of NYC winners, as well as all of the 2024 Restaurant Awards honorees, on the Wine Spectator website.
“The restaurant industry is growing and thriving, with restaurant openings surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time. To take advantage of the uptick, restaurateurs are investing in their wine programs,” said Marvin R. Shanken, Editor and Publisher of Wine Spectator. “Restaurants that make wine a priority are what the Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards program is all about. I’m pleased to congratulate all 3,777 restaurants for their dedication to wine and exemplary wine lists.” Cheers to that!
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For the fifth summer in a row, a herd of goats is moving to Harlem to help turn the area into an ecologically pristine environment—courtesy of the Riverside Park Conservancy.
Stationed at 120th Street in the past, the animals—Charlise, Chico, Godiva, Mallomar, Paris, Romeo and Turbo—will move to Riverside Park at West 143rd Street, where officials hope they’ll be able to make as much of a positive impact as they have a few streets over, on July 12.
“Thanks to the goat crew’s hard work at 120th Street over the past four summers, the human staff at the Conservancy and NYC Parks now have access to a much clearer slope,” reads an official press release. “With the success of the goats’ work at that location, native understory and large trees to fill in gaps can be installed, protecting the existing mature tree canopy.”
Graphic: Courtesy of River Park Conservancy
Further uptown, the goats will be tasked with munching on poison ivy and other invasive plants that are hard for human gardeners to navigate.
The effort is part of the Riverside Park Conservancy’s North Park Initiative, which seeks to bring more resources, maintenance and programming to particular portions of the park.
“These areas, which span between West 120th and 181st Streets, have seen years of neglect and disinvestment, leading to great disparities in amenities, cleanliness and overall conditions,” reads the release. “In its efforts to cultivate a more equitable experience across the Park and enhance recreation and fitness opportunities, the Conservancy has welcomed new public programming to the natural shoreline at 145th Street and has unveiled new outdoor exercise equipment at 151st Street.”
A bit about the animals themselves: the seven goats come from Green Goats in Rhinebeck, New York, a group founded back in 2008 to harness “goats’ natural affinity for consuming weeds, bringing them to locations across the United States for a pesticide-free alternative to clearing invasive species,” according to the release.
Mallomar in particular may look familiar to many: he was crowned the G.O.A.T. (see what they did there) by the public just last year.
