Remember that afternoon in Paris? You’d been walking along the Seine, worn down a little by your morning at the Louvre—and you turned a corner, and there was this little café. A bottle of Sancerre and a salade nicoise, some … Read More
Dolled up like a South Beach hotel lounge, the Stanton Social nonetheless fits perfectly into its raffishly chic Lower East Side locale. A beautiful three-level space fitted out with leather handrails and lizard skin banquettes, as well as belt-strapped pillows … Read More
Just saying the name is fun—la palapa—and even more so if you know what it means: a palm-thatched shelter on a beach. Almost immediately, your mind conjures an idyllic scene: you and your sweetie oceanfront, your toes in the water, … Read More
Friday night in the Meatpacking District, well after ten pm—and the hordes are out. Buddha Bar has a ninety-minute wait and Buddakan is Grand Central. Over at Fig & Olive, the music is nightclub loud. The streets are a parade … Read More
Open since April of 2003, Nice Matin has become the Balthazar of the Upper West Side. There’s a breakfast crowd, and a late-night crowd, and on clement weekends, the stretch of tables along Amsterdam is invariably filled—and not only by … Read More
Like a pack of wolves, the rich travel together, from one watering hole to another. Not because they like each other so much as because they can’t bear the idea that they might be missing something: who showed up with … Read More
A steel-gray winter Saturday in New York—and the Village appears deserted, all its well-heeled denizens off to St. Barts, or Turks & Caicos. The Hudson looks threatening. And for a moment, you might wish that you too were elsewhere—but then … Read More
To walk into the Red Cat on an early autumn evening, a slight nip in the air, is to realize more than a few of the season’s implied promises. The summer not completely faded from memory or face, everyone looks … Read More
