The other evening, despite the forecast of torrential rain I met a friend at Union Square Cafe which is located at 101 East 19th Street. As noted on their website: “Union Square Cafe—the flagship restaurant that launched Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group—has been one of the country’s most beloved dining institutions for 40 years.…
OK. True confessions. I’ve been to Cancun twice but never Mexico City so when I had the opportunity to see the play Real Women Have Curves on Broadway and have dinner at a Mexican restaurant before that, I jumped at the chance to have a New York Mexican experience. So I took the N Train…
The other evening I took the 4 Train to the Wall Street stop to meet my friend at Maison Passerelle which is located at 1 Wall Street. I decided to get to the area about an hour earlier to check out the new French Department store Printemps. Printemps is Paris’s biggest department store and they…
This Earth Day, I attended an event with BreakBread World. The event was hosted by at the townhouse of Elena Sapir in Chelsea. This Earth Day event began with a brief tour of Elena’s nature-inspired art collection which featured The Tree of Life by Nikolina Kovalenko (photo below). Then we had a living room room…
Getting back to my weekend in Vernon, New Jersey (which I started sharing in my previous post on (Grounds for Sculpture) on Saturday my friends and I went to the Warwick Winery which is located at 114 Little York Road, Warwick, New York. It was a super chill place and I loved it. My friends…
The other rainy afternoon, I took the train up to 51th Street and Lexington Avenue and then walked across to 151 West 51st Street to the iconic French restaurant Le Bernardin. Le Bernardin has received a four-star rating from The New York Times since 1986 and it’s the only seafood restaurant in New York City…
The other evening I met a friend at Le Cafe Louis Vuitton which is located on the fourth floor of the flagship Louis Vuitton store . Now, this fabulous looking store is located right next door to Tiffany’s and its address is 6 East 57th Street. The cafe is a tres chic destination with an…
It’s Restaurant Week in New York City and so a friend of mine suggested that we go to Gramercy Tavern which is located at 42 East 20th Street. Now usually eating at Gramercy Tavern in their back dining room area is $175 prix-fixed. So to our delight, our lunch was $60 because the Tavern is…
Aqua is Manhattan’s newest restaurant and yes! it has made the biggest splash! In all my years of Manhattan dining, never has there been a larger restaurant than Aqua. I was like, Wow! Aqua opened in the Flatiron district at 902 Broadway between 20th and 21st Street and is 24,000 thousand square feet. Yes, it’s…
Another freeeezing night in New York City and I joined a group of friends at Paul & Jimmy’s Restaurant which is located at 123 East 18th Street. True confessions, the restaurant is only a block from where I live so that made the decision to join them a whole lot easier!! Again, you can see…