Elementary, my dear weekend.
How to stay warm this winter: 1) Grab a date for spiked hot cocoa and wintry comfort food at Hudson Lodge. 2) Get total VIP access to Jay Z’s 40/40 Club. 3) Take 39% off a portable USB battery pack for all your devices. Just in time for holiday-travel season...
Dear Midtown: We’ve got to admit. You’re getting more appealing. Putting a new Butter up there—sneaky. And adding veal bacon to Butter’s repertoire was a stroke of genius. Is this wild-boar-with-grits dish serious? Okay, you win. We’re intrigued... you crafty bastard.
That distinct lack of warmth you’re feeling—it’s not going away anytime soon. Here to help: this temporary version of Williamsburg handsomeness authority Cadet, replete with Great Escape–worthy shawl-collar coats and cashmere duffles. They laugh in the general direction of winter.
Scallop pot pie, mussels on a stick and tenderloin for two. This has been a list of “things it would take to make you go to Queens.” And... consider it done. M. Wells is now a full-on French-Canadian dinner operation and steakhouse in LIC. And yes, you read that right: mussels on a stick.
Your power lunch itinerary from now on:
12:30 – Go to Betony.
12:45 – Discuss deals/mergers/Knicks futility over a clarified milk punch.
12:50 – Order roasted chicken.
1:15 – Eat said chicken.
1:45 – Say the words “Well, I’d better get back to the office.”
1:46 – Continue to be seated, rethink prior decision over second milk punch.
It’s about that time when you start the annual journey of looking for trinkets for others. Our recommendation: any of the work from this Rock Paper Photo pop-up. Which includes Beatles snaps from the Help! set and mid-’80s Madonna shots. Which “others” should really love.
