A Four Horsemen Alum Is Opening a New Wine Bar

Four Horsemen wine alum, Ava Trilling is opening a wine bar this fall called Rude Mouth at 359 Metropolitan Avenue, near Havemeyer Street. It’s the former home of longtime craft beer bar Spuyten Duyvil, which closed in April. Trilling previously had hosted pop-up versions of Rude Mouth at various bars.

Brooklyn has a solid new lunch deal

New Orleans-flavored Strange Delight is launching lunch on Thursday in Fort Greene: It’s $25 for an entree and three sides. Many ways you could play it, but catfish nuggets, plus sweet potatoes with pecans, collard greens, and Chinese broccoli salad sounds like a really fun way to spend a work lunch.

M. Wells hosts a cider fest ahead of closure

Ahead of eclectic Queens bistro M. Wells’ last day (which will be December 31), the team is hosting a Cider Fest at the restaurant this Tuesday. Dan Pucci, author of American Cider: a Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage, along with Matt Sanford of Rose Hill Farm upstate in Red Hook are hosting a seminar at the restaurant with an apple-themed dinner (you can purchase tickets to just the talk, or with the dinner added on.)

More snack-sized cocktails are on the way

As Empirical Spirits stalls on opening the doors of its hotly-anticipated Bushwick distillery, Iain Griffiths previously part of the project, is opening a bar of their own. Bar Snack is on the way to the East Village at 92 Second Avenue (between Fifth and Sixth streets), in partnership with Oliver Cleary (owner behind one of Greenpoint’s best dive bars Minnows). It’s aiming to open in November and will be the latest to spotlight snack-sized cocktails, joining spots like Tusk Bar and Milady’s.