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Steak. Your next date. Spectacular hanging gardens. Wines from 25 years ago. Nineteenth-century French cabaret sensation Aristide Bruant. A flight of stairs... All can be found at Le Jardin Bistro, a stone-cold charmer of a French date spot, now open in the East Village. We’re just going to show you around a bit with this slideshow so you can act
It’s Tuesday, so... we got nothing. Oh, wait— We’ve got Tuome, one of those pitch-perfect neighborhood date spots the East Village is so good at. This one’s doing American-Asian food from a vet of Eleven Madison Park and Commerce, and it’s opening tomorrow. First, two facts: 1. The Most Frequently Mispronounced Restaurant Name Award of 2014
Dear Smorgasburg, We love you. Your burger experiments and your ramen breakthroughs and your barbecue discoveries have given us boundless gustatory pleasure. But... maybe it’s time you found a nice piece of land and settled down. Somewhere like Berg’n. It’s basically a permanent version of Smorgasburg, but with the welcome addition of lots of
Editor’s Note: Today’s intro has been cut so you can hurry up and make a reservation at... Dirty French, a sprawling French brasserie at the Ludlow from the gentlemen behind Carbone, Torrisi, ZZ’s Clam Bar and Parm. They fling open the doors on this bad boy Thursday. Before you embark, here’s a short primer... We’d say “date spot,” but... ...
Lewis & Clark. Tango & Cash. Simon & Garfunkel. Stafford & Johnson. Cheech & Chong. Salt-N-Pepa. ... Inferiors, all. Compared to Birds & Bubbles, a humble little LES spot where you oversee the blessed marriage of fried chicken and champagne. It opens tonight. What you’re looking at here is an all-bets-are-off date spot from
Brazil has given us so many beautiful things. Their approach to parades. The purity of their soccer. And their contributions to the supermodeling community alone are just... But today, let’s talk about the short ribs. Specifically, those from Botequim, an underground powerhouse of Brazilian dinners, opening tomorrow near Union Square. The
Today, we introduce you to White Street, a new power-dining colossus whose chef hails from the Danny Meyer empire. It’s now open in Tribeca. Stepping into the past. That’s what this is like. The mosaic tiles, the potted palms. And the space. My God, look at all the space. (Once upon a time this was an armory.) In fact, let’s take a look at it all,
Let’s just get one thing straight. And trust us, we mean no offense by this. You’re not as good at cooking pizza or pasta carbonara as these people. So, now that that’s out of the way... Get thee to GG’s, a bright little neighborhood gem from the Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream guy, opening tomorrow in the East Village. You know how they say a
Hype. You’ll humor it. Smile at it. Friend it on Facebook. You just won’t believe it. Instead, there’s this. It’s an inspection sheet of sorts. A road test. A canary in the coal mine of New York dining. We call it Due Diligence. It’s dangerous work, but your nights are too important to leave to chance. The Place: Marta, a palatial new pizza-leaning
Today, we’d like to introduce you to Holden & Astor. It’s a big, ambitious piece of dinner-date real estate in Meatpacking, it’s from the folks behind the Mulberry and Greenwich Projects, and—this is key—it’s opening tonight. Sure, you can scope it out in the slideshow. But here are a few things you should know first... —They’re staking a claim to
