Please join Seth Hill of Alchemy Wine and the staff of Journeyman on Monday April 25 at our second installment of Wine Stains, a monthly wine dinner where the drinks get all the attention. Seating, at communal tables, is available at 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00pm. This time, we’ve paired the pairings; each course will be [...]
Wine Stains, March 7: Storied Wines
Our first dinner is upon us, and the menu has been settled. We are looking forward to a house full of friends tonight, not to mention delicious wines and foods. As promised, here’s the full menu: Rabbit Confit Tortellino with Eric Bordelet “Poiré Authentique†sparkling perry; Normandy, France Early Spring Salad with Ariana Occhipinti “SP68 [...]
Digesting the reviews
While restaurants thrive on the big newspaper reviews that get laminated and hung on walls and we’ve gotten our fair share (see our press page for a summary of them), we read all the reviews we can find, especially citizen reviews. We look for write-ups on personal blogs, micro-reviews on twitter and facebook, and of [...]
A Few Frequently Asked Questions & Their Answers
Do you take credit cards? Yes! Every major type is accepted at Journeyman, though you’re still welcome to pay in cash. Do you have gift certificates? Yes! Our gift certificates can be purchased in person or over the phone (we’ll mail you the certificate). You can give a gift certificate with a dollar amount or [...]
Changing of the Guard
Journeyman has hired new blood. With two new servers and two new cooks, we have the flexibility to start evolving our restaurant further: distinct prep and service shifts in the kitchen, nights off for waitstaff, and for 2011, a sixth night of service. As we’ve trained our new staff we’ve noticed how much our opening [...]
Our family is growing!
While I’ve already posted this news to facebook and twitter, I think it deserves one more mention: our wine director, Seth, and his wife Katrina had their first child last week. Elizabeth Jordan Traber-Hill is the newest addition to the Journeyman family, and we are so excited to have her! She was born on October [...]
This little piggie… & a special dinner on thursday November 4
Next week, on Thursday November 4, we’ll have Maria herself in to dinner. We’ll be serving a North Face Farm meal, and featuring the first of our new pigs.
Fall
This week is shaping up to be something else. The farmer’s market is winding down this week in Union Square, and the produce we opened with is pretty much gone. We’ve got a lot of yummy stuff tucked away in jars and in the freezers, but it’s always a bittersweet moment to say goodbye to [...]
The Week in Pictures
All photos by Johanna Bobrow. Pictured: pork rillettes, october salad, apple with custard & brown butter, hot tomato & cold tomato, rabbit with caramelized onion & salsa verde, beet risotto with chicken mushroom & corn milk.