Soon it'll be a new year, but what hasn't changed is the fact that you live in a city of excess. A city of temptations. A city of two-gallon cocktails. Here are a few suggestions to help you kick off your season of indulgence, before the nagging desire for improvement creeps in. You must resist it…
This "junior" breakfast plate puts barbeque pork, mac 'n' cheese, eggs and toast on a plate. Together. It's an unprecedentedly decadent pile of deliciousness, not tethered to the normal rules of food logic, and in blatant defiance of at least four international laws (by our count).
Unless the house you grew up in had a freezing glass-walled icebox where your parents sent you to do shots, nothing can prepare you for Mehanata's vodka room. They'll drape you with Russian military coats and furry hats, so you'll feel authentic and tipsy. Which is much better than feeling just tipsy.
Picture Simon without Garfunkel. Cher without Sonny. You can't do it. Okay, you can. Those were bad examples. Likewise, you can picture baby back ribs without chocolate. But you no longer have to, thanks to the experimental wizards at Kittichai. We only pray this combination will not be revealed as dangerous. For it cannot be undone.
When you think of the land of forbidden pleasures, England doesn't exactly spring to mind. But this tastefully risqué British-themed sex shop, with its confession booth-style dressing rooms where customers can email steamy photos, changed that for all time. Designed for ogling, it gives you your first glimpse of the impending romp. Like a really, really sexy version of "Print Preview."
Some ideas so blatantly fly in the face of common sense and accumulated wisdom that we just have to raise our glass. Introducing Carnival's two-gallon, aquarium-like "dunk tank," filled with vodka, rum, gin and fruit juice. Perfect for the drowning of industrial-size sorrows, or for sharing. Because let's face it, you tend to start feeling it after one gallon.
There are plenty of ways to drop serious money on dinner in New York, but there's something particularly unnecessary about hitting three figures for a bowl of rice. Of course, Bar Masa also throws in some wild mushrooms and sautéed black truffles, before topping it with white truffle shavings (the unquestioned king of all shavings).
