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
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 larger and more … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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, … Read More
