Archive - Thirst Behavior

Where to eat, drink and look at art on the East End

May 30

It's Like Rain on Memorial Day

A holiday weekend in the Hamptons, where everyone is pretending to live their best life

May 24

Younger Drinkers are not Stupid

The “accessibility” discourse mistakes hospitality for condescension — and younger drinkers are smarter than the industry thinks

May 16

One of downtown’s most celebrated new restaurants succeeds by letting enthusiasm remain visible

May 9

April 2026

More Goggles than T-Shirt

gestures of affinity, expressions of excess, and the persistent inevitability of misrecognition

Apr 25

Best Advice from the Best Wine Directors

How the people doing this well think about pricing, perception, and building a wine program that people return to.

Apr 17

If taste can be modeled, predicted, and monetized, what’s left for the people who built their lives around it? A dispatch on the necessary slippage…

Apr 11 • Bodhi Landa

Burrito Terroir

Vato's subtle insistence that the burrito does not need your customization

Apr 3

March 2026

Recoding Orange Wine

How a centuries-old technique became a modern cultural lightning rod—and why the argument misses the point

Mar 20

We Are All Wine Bros

taste, power, and the slippery business of masculine self-invention

Mar 13

a minor miracle in the Catskills

Mar 6

February 2026

Natural Wine is Growing Up

From glou-glou to goth, from punk rebellion to glossy backlash, natural wine has completed its cultural arc. The next phase might require structure—in…

Feb 28