BETA5 Chocolate

Vancouver-based pastry chef Adam Chandler on why his team's recipes are reaping the awards and crowds

When CH was in Vancouver, BC for TED week, a friend’s recommendation resulted in a pitstop at the BETA5 chocolate and pastry shop. While it’s a bit out of the way in an industrial area, the line stretched out the door and we managed to nab some of the cream puffs that hadn’t yet sold out. The BETA5 craze is legitimate, and it’s no wonder …

Seasonal Cocktails at Henry, A Liquor Bar

Famed UK bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana delivers experimental drinks to NYC

In June 2013, world-renowned bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana (twice named “UK Bartender of the Year”) was brought in as the Creative Director for NYC’s Henry, A Liquor Bar, which is just above the escalators at the Hudson Hotel. Beginning with their fall cocktail offerings, Chetiyawardana began to construct a menu utilizing the freshest local and seasonal ingredients, limitless imagination and a desire to invoke the actual …

No. Six Depot Coffee

Creatively roasted and blended coffees in small batches from the heart of the Berkshire Mountains

When it comes to roasting coffee, smaller quantities often yield better results; with the roaster able to pay closer attention to the process and variances in beans. For Buenos Aires-born Flavio Lichtenthal, owner of No. Six Depot—a roaster and cafe tucked away in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts—a love of finely roasted coffee was born from a passion for music and food; two entities that …