Rockland County Living, Arts & Entertainment, Food & Drink, Tourism
Exploding nationally, local beer breweries are hipster cool, Instagramable, and bottom-line good for communities. The idea of reclaiming an age-old product that’s been corporately manufactured for nearly a century, and giving it an artisanal shine, taps into the surging desire for locally-made food and beverages.
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Shah’s Halal Food, a meat-over-rice chain, opened a restaurant in mid-November on the fourth floor of the Palisades Center in the ThEATery.
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Rockland Community College’s culinary students will open up opportunity for artisanal food sellers, corporate entities, and area employers in the food and hospitality business.
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Chef/owner Constantine Kalandranis of 8 North Broadway in Nyack has for six years kept things interesting with daily menus and seasonal offerings. But now, the chef is really mixing things up because the business climate demands it.
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Barbara Berntsen dreamed of opening a coffee shop in Sloatsburg for 15 years. The Village Blend is housed in a section of the two-building complex Berntsen, and her daughter Nicole Scanlon, co-own.
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Five Senses Food Truck is a Staple of the Haverstraws By Tina Traster Sometimes an accidental question puts you on an unexpected road. For Jason Quinones, that road is 56 West Broad Street in the Village of Haverstraw, where he parks his food truck five days a week. Four years ago, the 37-year-old Stony Point […]
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The Pie Lady Is Ready for Its Next Act By Tina Traster Wil Tyler’s business education began in his mother’s kitchen. Deborah Tyler, aka “The Pie Lady, not only taught her son to bake, she showed him what entrepreneurial persistence looks like. Those lessons are paying off as Tyler, and his sister Bri Tyler, scale […]
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