Get Me … Anything! The New, Swank Stepin Fetchits

The concierge trend is totally out of control! One cannot break wind these days without some well-dressed, enthusiastic chap or chapess offering you tickets to The Lion King or dinner rezzies at Nobu. The deranged high-service lifestyle which was previously the exclusive prerogative of Hollywood mucketty-mucks is now available to ordinary people like you.

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Genuine Rustic Fare Found in Phony Tuscan Diorama

“I’m sorry there are no mussels,” said our waiter as he handed us the menu. “They’re spawning now.”

Of course. So instead, we began with a selection of antipasto–but it wasn’t your usual salami, prosciutto and slab of Parmesan cheese. At Colina, a new Tuscan restaurant that opened last month near Union Square, the platter Read More