Brace yourself, because today marks the launch for GrubHub's Digital Food Festival! Translation: free Restaurant Week.



All fall GrubHub has the hookup to a number of essential New York restaurants; places you simply have to try, places with lineups down the block, and places that don’t normally deliver. On a number of days throughout the season, GrubHub will feature a New York restaurant that will offer a certain number of diners an exclusive entrée. The restaurant designs the dish, GrubHub receives the order, the restaurant makes the dish, and GrubHub delivers it to the diner.

Today enjoy free ice cream from their first restaurant partner, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. Just use GrubHub.com to order a free scoop of ice cream and pick it up between 12pm and 10pm from either their store (E. Village) or the truck (Little W. 12th and Washington).

Program Calendar:
• Van Leeuwen (September 21)
• DuMont Burger (September 22)
• Peanut Butter & Co. (September 26)
• Katz’s Delicatessen (September 27)
• Foodswings (September 28)
• H & H Bagels (September 29)
• Artichoke Basille’s (October 4)
• Smashburger (October 5)
• Spoonbread (October 6)
• Miss Lily’s (October 11)
• The Smoke Joint (October 12)
• A Salt & Battery (October 13)

Keep up on all the action online!

Twitter: @GRUBHUB
#Hashtag: #DigitalFoodFest
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/grubhub?sk=app_235622016473376

Thanks to the awesome folks at Scoutmob, we bring you this deal for half off at Gristle Tattoo & Art Gallery in Williamsburg. This place is not your typical tattoo parlor. Forget neon blinking signs and dated designs hanging on the walls- Gristle is in a league of its own.

Via NY Social Agenda:

Even during the coldest of months, I never, ever, deny myself ice cream. It can be 12 degrees outside, but if there is a carton of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (or Half Baked) in front of me, you'd better believe I will consume it. As it's getting a little chillier outside, and as the Fall kicks off, Cold Stone Creamery is celebrating Make-A-Wish Month, which happens to be September.

On Tuesday, September 27th, they'll be hosting "The World's Largest Ice Cream Social" to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Between 5-8 pm, customers will be treated with a free sample of their Sprinkled with Wishes™ Creation™ , which consists of Sweet Cream Ice Cream, Brownie, Rainbow Sprinkles and Fudge. You can stop by any Cold Stone Creamery to make a donation any time this month and buying a Make-A-Wish paper star to show your support costs just $1.

10th Annual World's Largest Ice Cream Social
Cold Stone Creamery Locations
September 27
5-8 PM

-- Samantha Chin, NYCRD Contributor


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The National Academy
Experience America's Art
Fri-Sun, Sept 16-18, 11AM-6PM
http://nationalacademy.org/

Free Admission: On view in the newly renovated exhibition galleries, Will Barnet at 100, a retrospective of Barnet’s figurative and abstract paintings and prints and An American Collection, exhibitions from the permanent collection including great artists’ portraits from the 19-20th century, American post-war architecture, contemporary art and works by our National Academicians then and now.

Free Art Classes: Led by an outstanding faculty of professional artists and art educators, we are offering free art classes during the reopening weekend, Fri-Sun from noon to 5:00 PM. Bring out the artist in you and join our drawing, painting and printing sessions. Learn how to copy and recreate an old masterpiece, sketch from a live model or still life tableau. Enjoy art, make art. For artists of all ages.

The program offers all different types of Broadway and Off Broadway shows for up to 50% off along with exclusive deals on parking and Times Square favorites such as Madame Tussauds. The goal of Season of Savings is to make sure the district remains busy while allowing theater to be affordable for every wallet.

If you have not yet noticed, NYC is crawling with fashionistas of all sorts this week. Fashion's Night Out is tonight, and New York Fashion Week has also kicked off at Lincoln Center. The fashion-saavy have come out to play, and even if you don't know consider yourself in the know, there are plenty of fun events that don't require any exclusive invites.
From today until Sept. 15, the Allure Lounge will be open inside the Empire Hotel. Open to the public from 9am-7pm, guests can enjoy free samples, hair & makeup consultations, mini-makeovers, and other goodies.

Happy New York Fashion Week!

Allure Fashion Lounge at the Empire Hotel
63 Street (Broadway and Columbus)
Sept. 8-15
9 am-7 pm



-- Samantha Chin, NYCRD Contributor

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