Easy Living at the Shelborne Resort in South Beach
In South Beach, it’s all about the ocean: the ocean in the morning, when the sun rises over the water and the oceanfront hotels array their lounge chairs and umbrellas in neatly-ordered rows for another day in paradise. The truth is, there’s no better…
The Taj Mahal, a Disco Ball, and a Miss’d America Pageant: Where Else But Atlantic City?
When the emcee at the Disco Ball at Trump Taj Mahal asks the audience for a hometown shout-out and the largest cheers are for the boroughs of New York, it’s suddenly clear that Atlantic City must be doing something right; to fill a 5,000-person arena on…
New World Culinary Symphony: OLA @ Sanctuary
Twenty years ago, a little-known and very young graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, opened an upscale Cuban restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida-and within months, the restaurant Yuca had established chef Douglas…
Gays Win Big in Atlantic City
Given that Monopoly first taught most of us the value of real estate – and that Miss America taught us that beauty trumps brains – where would the LGBT community be without Atlantic City? As the birthplace of those cornerstones of American…
Company Restaurant: New York, New York
First of all, word may not yet have reached the owners of Co. (pronounced “Company”) that the days of 10-inch artisan pizzas for $17 are behind us. Then again, maybe economic woes have yet to impact the clusters of Chelsea fashionables who mingle in the…
OLA @ Sanctuary: Miami Beach, Florida
Twenty years ago, a little-known and very young graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, opened an upscale Cuban restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida—and within months, the restaurant Yuca had established chef Douglas…
A Star Reborn: Fontainebleau, Miami Beach
Sometimes a shot of Botox just ain’t enough. What’s needed is a complete makeover from top to bottom. And in the Land of Extreme Makeover, aka Miami Beach, the latest billion-dollar bombshell to showcase her extreme transformation is that oft-denigrated…
Scarpetta at the Fontainebleau
Given the location of Scott Conant’s latest Scarpetta (the eponymous sister to his Meatpacking District dazzler) in the newly renovated Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, it’s not surprising that you enter the restaurant almost expecting paparazzi. And when,…