Hubert Keller wanted to do something different from the expected Champagne brunch, and having a remarkable selection of beers on hand helped. “I started doing events at Fleur where, if we had six or eight wine pairings, I started including a beer,” he says. “The idea really trickled down when I set up the brunch here at Fleur."

The 2015 holiday season now officially in the books, train your eyes forward into the first bleak, grey, bitingly cold months of 2016. You know, the months that fun forgot. But they don’t have to be so dreary. Capitalize on the need of guests and locals to warm their bodies and hearts.