Bespoke bookbinders Thornwillow publish singular drink recipes in unforgettable libretto imprints. We’ll drink to that! This spring, be a gentleman in repose, by keeping in your wet bar several “neat” volumes of Manhattan-based stationer-bookmaker’s pocket-sized custom-designed booklets, featuring the recipes … Read More
People! It’s ‘HOUSE’-ton’ Hall–like the SoHo street name. Remember it. Manhattan finally has its first distinct mead-and-greet bar since, well, the Koch Administration. We all have wide-eyed friends who visit us in Manhattan, the so-called “City That Never Sleeps”, and … Read More
SoHo spot finally finds its niche in The Dalloway We loved Lani Kai, the Polynesian-inspired cocktail lounge formerly housed in this beleaguered Broome Street space. But to us it was too gloomy for being a Mai Tai-one-on watering hole. Enter … Read More
WoHo’s Houston Street becoming new pub-hub with Houston Hall comin’ round the bend. The photo here doesn’t do it justice, as it’s behind-the-times and our Blackberry camera is in repair). But quietly through the fall we’ve been watching the rise … Read More
It’s not difficult to pinpoint the exact moment that a musician totally loses themselves to the music that they produce. Sometimes there’s a physical reaction, face gone slack, or perhaps the complete opposite: scrunched up tight, almost in a smile … Read More
New York’s got that ‘Spotted’ one, but London’s erudite new cocktail bar rattles and rolls. Well, just look at the sitting room! It’s…decrepit-chic! Off the track in the heart of London’s Fitzrovia, this classy joint is boisterous and chic fun … Read More
The weather is going to be beautiful this weekend in NYC, and we have two pool parties happening at Thompson LES. RSVP and join us poolside, the best place to be in the NYC heat. Friday June 15th: French Fri’s at … Read More
Our favorite post-Memorial Day weekend teaser from our favorite Manhattan private club. Sure, Soho House nabs all the tabloid items, but we’re gunning for the Norwood Club (over there on way-west 14th Street) to ultimately usurp all that faux what-what. … Read More
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
