Five East End wineries are being showcased at the The Butterfly Ball fundraiser. (Credit: Randee Daddona for northforker)
North Fork wineries are helping to set the table for a fundraiser benefiting The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy later this month. (more…)
David Acker at Harmony Vineyards last month. (Credit: Elizabeth Wagner)
It’s not often that a vintner can also brag of inventing medical technology, but David Acker, owner of Harmony Vineyards in Head of the Harbor, has that singular kind of resume. (more…)
Farmingdale native Marc Anthony Bynum has expanded Hush Bistro into a larger space in Huntington. (Photo by Keith Stein at Hurricane of Lions Photography)
It’s 2 p.m. on a Tuesday in late October and although the doors of Hush Bistro won’t open to the public for another three hours, Huntington’s hottest new restaurant is bustling with activity.
A camera crew is setting up for an autumn-themed photo and video shoot at the bar. The cooks are hard at work in the kitchen prepping for the production and the patrons who will follow.
Holding court at a long bench inside the nearly 70-seat eatery is chef-owner Marc Anthony Bynum, who’s interviewing a prospective employee while also conducting the symphony around him. (more…)
Guests at last year’s Family Fun Night in Patchogue. (Courtesy: greaterpatchogue.com)
Looking for some recommendations from the northforker team for events a car or ferry ride away this week?
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Looking for some recommendations from the northforker team for events elsewhere in Suffolk County this week?
Here’s five events and activities happening ‘off the fork.’ READ MORE
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Jacqueline Malenda inside Madiran The Wine Bar. (Credit: David Benthal)
It’s rare that a sixth-grade science fair project predicts one’s career, but that was the case for Jacqueline Malenda, proprietor of Madiran the Wine Bar in East Setauket. While her classmates were growing sugar crystals and measuring electrical currents, Malenda made wine with grapes from the supermarket.
With her parents’ help, she made that single bottle of 8 percent alcohol-by-volume wine using household items like a potato masher, cheesecloth, pitchers and a funnel.
“After making a presentation at the science fair, I came home with the blue ribbon. And the faculty drank my bottle!” (more…)
