The Waverly Inn: New York, New York
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 whom and wearing what and who got…
Perry Street Restaurant: New York, New York
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 you…
The Red Cat: New York, New York
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 good, particularly when proudly sporting…
Taboon Restaurant: New York, New York
Here’s a handy word to know for your next vacation in Arabic-speaking lands: taboon. As in domed oven used for baking puffy flatbread. Then again, if you tend to heed State Department warnings, travel instead to Taboon at 52nd and Tenth Avenue. Opened…
Balthazar: New York, New York
That room! In a city of great rooms – be they ballrooms or private clubs or soaring public spaces – there’s a special fondness for the dining rooms of New York City that are both majestic and comforting at the same time. To walk into…
Cookshop: New York, New York
Some restaurants, rare though they are, exude a kind of palate mnemonic. There you are, seated at a restaurant, when something happens to your memory, thanks to something on your palate, or perhaps the lighting, or the tables, the music in the…
Gabriela’s Restaurante and Tequila Bar: New York, New York
Long beloved on the Upper West Side, nearly as much for its amiability as for its fresh and innovative Mexican cuisine, Gabriela’s was well on its way to becoming an institution – when suddenly, unceremoniously, its doors on the corner of Amsterdam and…
Turks & Frogs: New York, New York
Nestled in a quiet corner of Tribeca, the restaurant Turks and Frogs (so named for its exemplary Turkish cuisine as well as the fact that the owners once sold French antiques) was not so long ago “discovered” by Daily Candy, and thereafter, slammed – so…