The Dishing

The Dishing is a different kind of dining guide connecting people + places through trusted intel + IRL experiences. Drinks. Dining. Culture. Sound.

Our Raise The Bar initiative supports industry wellness with free classes, resources + talks. Look to us for where to eat, what to drink, and who’s mixing the perfect cocktails in NY’s Capital Region, Hudson Valley and beyond.

09/06/2026

🍅 Issue 66 - The Tomato Issue - hit in-boxes on Tuesday, Sept 1. We may be in the -ber months, but it’s still too early for pumpkin spice.

Instead, we’re celebrating all things tomato from LOEWE 🍅 handbags to a banging tomato sando at Hamlet & Ghost + tomato cocktails from Saratoga to Kingston. Meanwhile, bar director Olivia Savas raises the stakes with a $75 jacked Bloody Mary at Noah’s to rival Noah Frese’s $325 Golden Boy Siro’s burger. In this issue, we have the scoop on a new bar coming to Glens Falls, a new fishmonger for Latham, a fashion show in support of the Palestinian Seed Library + intel on a new robatayaki. We fangirl over pastries at pinkerton’s in Kingston + fall for Chef Harris Mayer’s hyper-seasonal, farm-focused, dirt to fork menu with Abruzzesi connections at Cornerstone Restaurant. Whether you make it a day trip or an overnighter, it’s within easy reach from the city or points upstate. Plus, we kickoff our fall TINY Talks on 9/16 with a look at psilocybin + mental health from guest speaker + Collar City Mushrooms man Avery Stempel. Reserve your spot at TheDishing.com/events!

We’re excited for our industry-only Raise The Bar, a *free* half-day wellness event at June Farms for anyone working in hospitality. If you’re ready for a little reset after a busy summer, join us for a half-day of mind/body wellness on Monday on 9/21. Details at thedishing.com. Tell your shift mates + reserve your spot!

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📸 Cover Victoria Sedefian
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08/30/2026

So—September’s here + The Dishing x Beatshot Music have cooked up a special end of summer, back-to-school party at with Matt, Tess + Trinel from the June Farms reality TV show this Wednesday, Sept 2 from 5 to 9pm. Tunes by Truemaster Trimingham, cocktails by Trinel McDermott Tess Collins + Matt Baumgartner.

Get there early for The Dishing’s signature Snacky Hour + a complimentary frozen cocktail (5 - 6pm) for subscribers. Tell your teacher friends to come out too. We’ll get them battle ready for the first day of school.

Show off your nineties footie skills with The Dishing’s footbags + get a handle on the rest of the year with Oracle readings by Jisung Chun 전지성 The Visionary, the visionary!

June Farms
The Dishing
Beat Shot Music
Truemaster Trimingham
Matt Baumgartner
• SUSIE DAVIDSON •

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08/26/2026

Issue 65 — The Movers + Shakers Issue — landed in inboxes yesterday.

In this issue, we head downstate to meet North Creek native + Exec. chef Jes Monroe jes monroe, Director of Operations at the Michelin Bib Gourmand . We have Dimity Jones’ inside scoop on Johnson’s Barbecue + we pick up with Simone’s Kitchen founder Bashir Chedrawee bashirc_ about his takeover of Patrick Henry’s Tavern in Coxsackie. Plus we resurface his tastemaker interview where he shares his employee-first business model. (Throw in the fact that he’s taking 50+ staff to Greece to experience Mediterranean food + you know he’s thinking outside the box.) We have intel on The Grotto bringing tiki to The Night Owl, where NYC Mayor Mamdani ate upstate + more… If you’re not getting our weekly news, sign up at TheDishing.com.

We saw off summer with our taco party at Casita + now we’re calling all teachers for our Back-To-School Snacky Hour + June Farms dance party with Truemaster Trimingham + Matt Baumgartner Trinel McDermott Tess Collins of the June Farms reality TV show. Tell your friends, invite a teacher. ✏️🍎

INDUSTRY: Save the date for our free Raise The Bar hospitality wellness day at June Farms on Mon. 9/21. Sign up for the free industry registry for more info.

The Dishing is a different kind of dining guide, connecting people + places through trusted intel + in-person events.

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📸 Victoria Sedefian

08/25/2026

4 more weeks of Beats + Eats Clinton Market Collective in downtown Albany, N.Y.!

The Dishing has partnered with Downtown Albany to serve up some extra treats. With a little help from our friends, you have a chance to try something new. Most capital cities have a vibrant food scene + Albany is no different, so we’re setting the table every Monday through September 28 with Truemaster Trimingham, guest DJ HollyW8D 🇯🇲🔊™ DJ, Photo Booth Service + More, lawn games + Emack & Bolio ice cream emacksalbany. Swipe → for the full line up.

🫒 Plus, join The Dishing live at 5 on 9/21 for a special industry edition after our (free) ‘Raise The Bar’ Industry Wellness day (10am - 2pm) at June Farms. Sign up at thedishing.com

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8/31 🍤 seafood—The Reel Hot Stuff N Butta food truck

9/14 🌭— The Meat Stick Chick
9/21 Polish + Filipino — Chef Dale Hajdasz + chee-bog
9/28 Beef brisket,🍔,🍟 — At First Bite food truck

Capitalize on Mondays. Help us light up downtown!

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Graphics: Stephen Struss
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• SUSIE DAVIDSON •
Downtown Albany
Clinton Market Collective
Capitalize Albany Corporation

08/24/2026

Summer crushes happen so fast + this summer it’s our collab with Extra Virgin Olive Oil Piro. + 3 Hudson Valley/Capital Region restaurants. We asked Chef Michele Hunter, Chef Arvin Clemente + Chef-owner/Creative Director Halo Perez-Gallardo to take inspiration from the complex fruitiness, almond notes + peppery finish of the award-winning Piro olive oil + give it a sweet twist over soft serve ice cream. Stop into Familiar Creature in Saratoga Springs, Little City Luncheonette in Albany, or Lil' Deb's Oasis in Hudson to taste this surprising love match before summer’s over. It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. 😋

🍨 Familiar Creature: Black sesame, Oreos, sea salt, Piro
🍨 Little City Luncheonette: Ube vanilla twist with lemon cookie crumble, Piro
🍨 Lil Deb’s Oasis: Yellow tomatillo + aji amarillo ice cream, peanut sesame crunch, Piro

📸: Victoria Sedefian

08/21/2026

🚨 LAST DAY TO VOTE IN THE PINHOOK STAKES!
It’s neck + neck! With over 5,000 votes, CantinaSaratoga + Coat Room are battling it out hourly to hold down first place. And Bourbon Room of Saratoga is closing the gap and coming in hot.

🗳️ Voting continues through 11:59pm today!

🥃 8 bartenders
🍹 8 cocktails
🏆 1 Saratoga horse race: The Pinhook Stakes

Celebrating the 2026 Pinhook Bourbon “Saratoga Allowance” summer release.

If you’re hitting Saratoga today, drop in on any of the 8 participating bars to try their Pinhook Bourbon cocktail + then make sure your horse is in the 🏇!

On Saturday, Pinhook Bourbon will announce the People’s Choice + Judges’ Choice winners with prizes in the Winner’s Circle!

08/19/2026

Issue No. 64 - The Sweet Summer Issue - hit inboxes on Tuesday. Sign up for the weekly intel at TheDishing.com.

In this issue, the ladies shine: Olivia Savas Olivia Savas, Bar Manager of Noah’s in Saratoga Springs, crafts a smooth Scarpett; we meet Milas’ young, talented pastry chef, Manuela Milan Vera Manuela Milan Vera who dives into French pastry, rock climbing + the power of saying yes. Plus • SUSIE DAVIDSON • reviews the woman-operated Emperor Garden Chinese restaurant Emperor Garden in Crossgates Mall + wonder if it’s single-handedly raising the mall dining bar.

🐎 🥃 is racing to a close, but CantinaSaratoga has pulled back into the lead! You have until Friday, August 21 to vote your fave bar (or bartender) into the Winner’s Circle. 🗳️ Vote daily at thedishing.com.

🍨 On the website, we’re featuring 3 phenomenal summer soft serve ice creams by Chef Michele Hunter Michele Hunter at Creature, Chef Halo Kaya Perez-Gallardo at Lil' Deb's Oasis + Chef Arvin Clemente at Little City Luncheonette, all with a little help from our friends at Extra Virgin Olive Oil Piro.. Forget the butter-dipped soft serve trend, these three—black sesame, tomatillo + ube—are drizzled with liquid gold.

Dishing Club members get an extra scoop in Friday’s ‘Weekend Snack’ where we spill the tea on what + where to eat.

📆 This Sunday, Aug. 23, we’re all heading to Casita at Mass MoCA for a late August patio party from 4-8pm. Come for tacos y tequila with tacos al pastor, ceviches + Truemaster Trimingham serving Mexican pop! We’d love to see you! 🌮

INDUSTRY: Save the date for our free Raise The Bar hospitality wellness day at June Farms on Mon. 9/21. Sign up for the industry registry to receive an invitation.

The Dishing is a different kind of dining guide, connecting people + placed through trusted intel + in-person events.

→ Join The Dishing for just $7 a month: thedishing.com

📸 Victoria Sedefian
Graphics: Stephen Struss

08/18/2026

With only 5 days left in The Pinhook Stakes race celebrating the 2026 release of “Saratoga Allowance” straight Kentucky bourbon, we have a final furlong upset with Coat Room surging past CantinaSaratoga to take the lead! From thousands of votes cast over the past 3 weeks, Cantina has steadily held the lead, but this swift changes everything.

The current race standings are:
1st: Coat Room
2nd: CantinaSaratoga
3rd: Bourbon Room of Saratoga
4th: Kindred - 84 Henry Street
5th: LucysBar
6th: Rhea
7th: Seneca
8th: 15 Church Restaurant

You still have 5 days left to send your favorite Pinhook cocktail, bartender or bar to the Winner’s Circle at Saratoga Race Track. On Saturday, August 22, Pinhook Bourbon will announce the winner 🏆 in two categories:
- The People’s Choice — voted by you
- The Judges’ Choice — chosen by Julia Johnson of Lil Deb’s Oasis in Hudson (Julia J.🌻🌻✊🏽🍉), Will Hoschek of Itameshi in Albany (w__hoschek), Anton Kinloch of Lone Wolf in Kingston (Anton Kinloch) + Susie • SUSIE DAVIDSON •, founder of The Dishing.

🗳️ Voting is online at thedishing.com or pick up up a QR postcard in all 8 participating bars. 🥃 🐎

08/17/2026

C A S I T A X T H E D I S H I N G
📍 Casita

Summer Sundays are not to be missed—(think of all the snow to come)— so we’re giving late August its flowers with a patio party at Casita on the campus of Mass MoCA!

If you caught The B Magazine • Berkshires’ feature on The Dishing with • SUSIE DAVIDSON •, you know we’re super excited for this collab. And if you haven’t eaten at Casita, now’s your chance to experience an area best. (Review at thedishing.com.)

The Casita team is bringing Mexican flavors out in full force with a patio menu of spit-grilled tacos al pastor, ceviches, fresh oysters, small batch Mezcal + ice cold cerveza from 4 to 8 p.m.🍻 Truemaster Trimingham is making a break for the NY/MA border + taking Mexican pop to the streets. We kick off at 4pm with our signature Snacky Hour (4-5pm) + complimentary cocktail, so take a drive to MASS MoCA for afternoon art + kick back with The Dishing x Casita on the patio. (Spot their remote-controlled Kei truck delivering food!)

Details at TheDishing.com/events
Spread the word!

The Dishing is a different kind of dining guide connecting people + places through trusted intel + in-person events.

Graphic: Stephen Struss

08/15/2026

Issue No. 63 landed in inboxes bright and early on Tuesday with a catch up on our recent features since y’all have been summermaxxing so hard. We had extra early news on Lone Wolf Cocktail Bar returning to its Fuschia Tiki roots (—the Cambodian menu stays) + our summer love affair with Extra Virgin Olive Oil Piro. olive oil + SIRO’S Saratoga sorbet kicked off a summerlong situationship between Extra Virgin Olive Oil Piro. + 3 upstate restaurants crushing the ice cream game (watch this space.) In partnership with Downtown Albany, we locked in some of our favorite food pop ups for Monday night Beats + Eats with Truemaster Trimingham + friends. Let’s make Monday tasty again.

Get ready for our Berkshire-based patio party + Snacky Hour with the talented allstars at Casita on Sunday 8/23. Hit Mass MoCA + shimmy over for some tacos + tequila. 🌮 We’re rejecting any suggestion that summer is nearly over, but our TINY Talks will be returning in September. Of course, The Dishing Club members got a bonus Weekend scoop on where we’ve been eating + entry into the August “Dinner’s On Us” giveaway with dinner at The Roosevelt Room. Don’t forget our July winner, the fabulous Ryan, is looking for a date to join him at West Ave Pizza, so hit us up if you have an equally fabulous friend to refer. 💌

The Dishing is a different kind of dining guide, connecting people + placed through trusted intel + in-person events.

→ Join The Dishing for just $7 a month: thedishing.com

📸 1 + 2: Victoria Sedefian
Graphics: Stephen Struss

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