The weekend is calling. Will you accept the charges?
Meet your Perks: 1) Brunch and endless apple cider cocktails in a cozy, lantern-lit tavern—for $30. 2) Exclusive early access to a six-bottle collection of damn good wine. 3) Up to 44% off acclaimed wine and cocktail accessories from Soireehome. Time to drink wine like you mean it.
East Village drinking treasure Lit Lounge once had a space called Fuse Gallery. You could see and buy new art. Now it’s gone. Get over it. Because Fuse Room’s here. It’s basically Fuse Gallery, but with a bunch of murals. Also a pool table. Progress marches on.
Hours you might wait for a table at Mission Chinese: 4
Odds you’d wait that long,
even if a bad kung-pao-pastrami craving hit: 10:1
Odds you can now just have it handed
to you at your door: 1:1
Chance you’re smiling right now: 100%
You’re familiar with the phrase “back with a vengeance.” Like when an Upper East Side French institution—say, Le Bilboquet—closes, and then opens back up in a sexy new spot with twice the space. That would be a prime example.
Melvin’s Juice Box [melvənɪz
dʒuːs
bɑːks]
proper noun,
plural, Melvin’s Juice Boxes
1. A Miss Lily’s juice offshoot
capable of wiping out the negative effects of a previous night’s non-juice drinking. Now open in a large
new space at the Dream Downtown. Coincidentally, where many such nights have occurred.
