Renowned Chef, Susur Lee proved yet once again he knows how to prepare delicacies for over 200 stylish guests. Fashionistas came out of their closets Tuesday night to celebrate Shang’s one year anniversary. Located on the Lower East Side’s Orchard Street, this modern Asian fusion venue has something for every fashionable New Yorker. I asked one [...]
What goes around comes around… Season after season we have seen Gordon Ramsay’s wrinkly face scrunching up like a dried prune, yelling at unsuspecting contestants to move their asses or fuck off. Despite being treated like a crap, they gladly poured out their sweat and tears in hopes of making him smile. Now, it seems [...]
Giving Hipsters the love and coke den they need. Pabst drinkers and American Spirit smokers everywhere have been patiently awaiting Paul Sevigny’s next move. Since the uber-famous Beatrice Inn’s sad closure earlier this year, articles have been popping up bi-weekly of Sevigny’s possible investment in “The New ‘It’ Spot”. Typically rumors, hipsters flock to these [...]
Getting my name placed on the list for Indochine’s 25 year anniversary was not an easy task, especially when competing with celebrities. However, I managed to obtain my confirmation from one of Nadine Johnson’s lovely and beautiful darlings (wonder if she has any pull at the Boom Boom Room) and headed to the evening’s soiree. [...]
How to behave in a restaurant… While taking in the New York Times this morning, we saw a list of fifty essential rules for all waiters, waitresses, baristas, and other employees of the seventh circle of hell known as food service. This brought back all sorts of nightmare memories of playing tableboy to groups [...]
Situated on the neighborhood-y Thompson Street in Soho, KittiChai is not new. It is not the bling it once was and it holding on with steadfast perseverance for maintaining its status quo. On a beautiful sun drenched NYC day, I recently got to partake of a quiet lunch at Kittichai and talk with general manager, [...]
Central Park’s Tavern on the Green may be known for its old money stuffiness, but you wouldn’t know it when its garden courtyard is taken over by 8 year old networking organization Green Drinks. The environmentally minded nonprofit typically hosts networking evenings at bars across the city on the second Tuesday of every month, but [...]
Entering Japonais is crossing from the heart of a metropolis irreverently bustling around the clock in Manhattan’s GRAMMERCY Park district into a serendipity of subtle au courant—the restaurant is all mirrors and mood lighting. Downstairs, such lighting gave the dining area a chiaroscuro due to the darkness of the earth-tone motif. On the other hand [...]
You will know it by the smell of brown sugared bacon, eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes and lavish juice laden cocktails all had at 2 p.m, who you know if you live in New York City, visit quaint hotels or work week days. Not quite breakfast, and not quite lunch… Brunch is a lounging animal of [...]
Daniel Boulud has opened his newest culinary craze – DBGB kitchen and bar at 299 Bowery. Open to the public in June, DBGB stands apart from the remainder of Boulud’s decadent resume, which includes Bar Boulud, Cafe Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne and Daniel in New York City alone. Open shelves with propped up copper pots [...]
