Hit South American-Latin-y Super Linda for dinner, then French-Vietnam-y Le Baron for all those other things you try not to do at home. Truth be told it’s beyond-rare that we ever want to venture out at night in downtown Manhattan … Read More
David Lynch’s Club Silencio takes cues from that ‘Muholland Drive’ fright house While the amateurs were costuming up this past Hallow’s weekend, David Lynch was opening what he would, in his folksy way, call “the real deal.” Club Silencio, a … Read More
Chicago’s The Bedford aims to get you lubed at the brunch hour, the new cocktail hour, doncha’ know? Chicago just won’t slow down with pretty cool new drink joints. The Bedford: a restaurant and sophisticates bar housed in an historic … Read More
East Hollywood gets a dose of serious cocktails and industrial chic. For the past five years, downtown Los Angeles has ruled the “craft cocktail” turf. It’s nice to see Harvard & Stone spreading the love over to East Hollywood’s Griffith … Read More
NYC’s The Box and Balthazar to Open in London Coming soonish to that city where that wedding thing happened: Brit ex-pat Keith McNally–who has done quite swimmingly for himself in Manhattan (Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, Pullino’s and on) is returning … Read More
Rain? No problem! The retractable rooftop keeps you ordering martinis, dry. On the 14th floor of Thompson Hotel’s Six Columbus–the insider’s place to stay among the coterie of hotel laurel-resters is the newly opened A6 (or Above Six) terrace lounge. … Read More
If losing an arm and doing the Oscars in drag isn’t enough for our 21st Century Renaissance man, King James is about to be racking hours behind his own bar You likely know from the dipso-mill that he’s opening a … Read More
Lani Kai may overcome the Bermuda Triangle. We have a term for nightspots that just never succeed: Bermuda Triangles. They’re locations of restaurants and bars that were once legendary, then, not. New place moves in, and die. Then another, and … Read More
Old World meets the velvet rope at Privet nightclub. There’s more than a whiff of fromage coming off North Rush Street out of Privét, the new ultra-exclusive nightclub in the former Le Passage space. Put it down to their somewhat … Read More
Thompson Hotel’s swanky-fun new cocktail lounge-gaming parlor returns the Hollywood Roosevelt to its 1920s roots. There’s a new way of “striking” a pose, as it were, at the Hollywood Roosevelt. Designed by acclaimed architecture firm Studio Collective and created by … Read More
…because the original Trader Vic is but a memory of Merv. Los Angeles is of course the spiritual home of the Tiki Bar–the very first was opened back in 1933 by Don the Beachcomber, a full three years before Trader … Read More
A Notorious NYC Nightclub of Recent Past May Re-Open… courtesy of a devilish restaurant maitre’d, currently working and a partner at one of the city’s hottest boites. The place was closed down after one wild, tabloid-headlining run, and its principals … Read More
The spooky James Bond film, starring Roger Moore-and featuring the top-hatted, living-dead voodoo priest Baron Samedi (played by that 7-Up cola nut guy)-made for a Bizarre-o Land theme for a pop-up bar ’round Halloween. New York nightlife guy and scribe … Read More
The meat district’s new basement nightclub, The Bunker, makes us feel like kicking off our shoes and getting our party on. Like many downtown New Yorkers, we’re not easily pulled over to the jam-packed, hard-partying world of the meatpacking district, … Read More
Nightlife writer Fernando Gil’s new day job is keeping the style brigade well-lubed. Starting today, BlackBook magazine and “Page Six” alum Fernando Gil is bringing a little of his Argentina homeland to downtown Manhattan with a nifty pop-up bar, which … Read More
