We will be launching a wine dinner series in July featuring four capital region chefs and their dining rooms. I will be joining Chef Mark Graham from Mezzanote, Chef Larry Schepici from Tosca and Chef Jackie Bladwin from RPI in a four dinner tour of our dining rooms. Each chef will host a wine dinner at their [...]

If you haven’t tried our Grapetini, you get to try it at home! This is a martini that has been on our menu for some time now, and is made more often than a cosmo in our restaurant. It’s sweet, but not too sweet and the smell as you bring the glass close to your [...]

As I started by blog last week with a question that, as a Wine Steward, I receive quite frequently, I’ll continue with that theme this week. “What is your best wine on the list” is the most commonly asked question. As I’ve said before and will say again, wine is always subjective to each individual’s [...]

677 Prime in Albany has a new menu which has most of the traditional staples but has a few new and exciting appetizers, sides and entrees. The American Kobe on a hot rock is a new addition consisting of raw slices of beef that guests sear on a hot rock right at the table, and [...]

Here’s a recipe for our new summer version of the crab cake. Over the years I’ve made a lot of different crab cake dishes. I can’t even remember most of them. At 677 Prime I remember that we had a mammoth crab cake when we first opened that must have weighed a pound, (ok maybe [...]