Tar Beach at the Kitano, Free Peach Sangria at Perbacco, and Ostrich Eggs at Klee

Tar Beach at the Kitano New York Hotel’s Roof Deck

If you’re in town this Labor Day weekend, have no fear – tar beach is here. The Kitano New York Hotel has a gorgeous roof deck with chefs ready to do all the grilling for you. All you need to do is gather your friends, sit back, relax with a few glasses of sangria, and enjoy the view. The hotel is offering offering a slew of different BBQ packages for you and your friends that include grilled favorites (Tar Beach) to the beloved seafood grill (The Manhattan Clam Bake). 

The cost of the BBQ packages range from $75 - $185 per person and includes menu options, tropical drinks, beer, sangria, and red and white wines. The BBQ packages are available throughout the summer and into the fall (weather permitting).

The Kitano New York Hotel’s spacious rooftop, one of the city’s premier outdoor rooftop venues, offers east and west views, and unadulterated views to the north of the Empire State, MetLife and Chrysler buildings.

The Kitano Hotel is located at 66 Park Avenue, (212) 885-7000. For more information or to book your BBQ package, please contact Thanya Phanpinyo at  212-885-7017 or email phanpinyo@kitano.com.

Perbacco’s Free Pesche e Vino at Brunch

To help you soak up the last bits of summer this weekend--and for the month of September-- Perbacco's latest brunch treat is an Italian end-of-summer specialty, "pesche e vino." Made from the freshest seasonal stone fruit--local peaches--soaked and served a blend of Perbacco's selected red wines, it's a traditional (but little known) twist on sangria to help celebrate what's left of our long, sunny days.

Pesche e Vino will be served their housemade pesche e vino as a complimentary gift to brunch diners at Perbacco on Saturdays and Sundays starting this weekend and lasting through the month of September.

Perbacco is located at 234 East 4th Street, and brunch is served from 12 - 4 PM.For reservations, call (212) 253-2038.

Ostrich Eggs at Klee

First it was cheese made from his wife's breast milk and now it's ostrich eggs! Chef Daniel Angerer is not afraid to push the envelope in the name of creative cooking (that also happens to taste great).

All through September, Chef Daniel Angerer at Klee offers a brunch special of oven-baked scrambled ostrich eggs. The chef gets these huge orbs from Roaming Acres, a Jersey ostrich farm that also sells at the Greenmarket. He’ll pair the eggs with a rotating selection of ingredients (like Romano tomatoes and escarole for $15). If you haven’t had ostrich eggs, they taste more or less the same as chicken eggs — except the ostrich egg yolk and whites are the equivalent of nearly two dozen chicken eggs combined. Klee is located at 200 9th Avenue, (212) 633-8033.

Enjoy!

— Bao Ong

Andrea Strong