Neighborhood Watch

Half-Price Drinks at Pure Food and Wine; Kitchen Reis Becomes Taqueria Reis

Carroll Gardens: After thirteen years of operation, Vintage Cellars on Smith Street is closing owing to rent increases. [Brownstoner]


Crown Heights: Oaxaca Taqueria opened its third location at 605 Prospect Place today. [Brownstoner]


Gramercy Park: Starting October 1, Pure Food and Wine offers half-off their entire wine list daily between 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. through October 31. The special also includes $3 organic beers and discounts on select appetizers. [Grub Street]

Park Slope: Kitchen Reis has changed its name to Taqueria Reis and the small-plates menu has been replaced by “Mexico City style tacos,” burritos, and flautas. [Brownstoner]


Drink beer, eat bread, and support the Old Stone House, located at 3rd Street and Fifth Avenue, on October 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The tasting event will include five courses of bread representing recipes from the colonial era and each will be matched with a beer brewed by Olsen and Prout. Tickets are $45. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]


Soho: Savoy’s fall dinner series starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik will discuss bouillabaisse, the classic French stew, which will be served alongside platters of shellfish and fennel. Tickets are $105. [Grub Street]


Tribeca: Macao Trading Co. hosts Calamity Chang’s “Drunken Dragon Night” on October 4 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The free event includes a Burlesque Cabaret show and an open bar until 11 p.m. [Grub Street]

Half-Price Drinks at Pure Food and Wine; Kitchen Reis Becomes Taqueria Reis