NYC’s Newest Restaurant Likened To A Favorite Childhood Book ‘On LSD’
These are the run clubs and swim clubs with very robustly branded websites for some reason, websites that greet you with full-width videos of delighted people being very sweaty together. New ventures for “group conversation” or exclusive social spaces or curated clubs with sign-up flows and membership levels that evoke the rigor of a bank account r... See more
Elise Granata • What We Lose When Optimizing Community
In front of a fireplace across the room, a woman crooned into a microphone. A wraparound fever dream of a mural depicting carousing frogs in Prohibition-era cocktail attire ran the length of both dining rooms. Hundreds of plates were suspended from the ceiling with vaguely sinister chains, while an antique clock and several framed works of art also... See more
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Of the many places I waited in NYC, by far the most memorable was Phebe’s Wine and Dine (whine and dine) on the Bowery. It stayed open until four a.m. and served four very distinct clienteles: actors from local downtown theater companies (including Michael Chiklis, who was the NICEST guy, even to the waitstaff); NYU students, who would buy a $5 pit
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Isobel hesitates, glancing around at the clientele, a mostly bohemian crowd sipping absinthe and arguing about art.