Nice Matin Restaurant: New York, New York
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 locals. The food,…
Mandarin Oriental Elbow Beach: Paget Parish, Bermuda
While the main building is the one showcased on many of Elbow Beach’s brochures, and while it looks appealing in a Grand Hotel sort of way, at this point, this buttercup-yellow building is in serious need of renovation—which is apparently due to commence…
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…
Hotel Gault: Montreal, Canada
Life at the Gault is life lived in your favorite shelter magazine, the one you read before sleep, so that maybe when you awaken, you might find yourself living your shelter dream. These thirty rooms represent all that you want your urban pied à terre to…
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…
Sofitel London St. James: London, England
Picture 1930s Paris—overlooking an Edwardian London skyline. Dark woods and highly polished surfaces—and perhaps a bit too cluttered with objets (we stashed a number of unnecessary items under the bed, whereupon the smallish dormer room suddenly became…