A Manhattan Fund-Raiser for Bruno, a Big Donor for Bing

Here's an invitation to Joe Bruno's Fall Fest at 7th Avenue and 51st Street, on October 17. That's quite a way away from Bruno's Rensselaer district and right in Eliot Spitzer's backyard. It's also taking place around the time some people expect the state's new Commission on Public Integrity to issue its report on Spitzer's Read More

Gracious Hostess, Gifted Greek Go Baroque on Upper East Side

This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and miniskirt, chatting with customers. An ex-attorney whose father was in Read More

Thursday Morning Read-Along

  • Jonathan Miller gets annoyed by Time magazine: Reporting on the housing “bubble” in March is a little late. (Matrix)
  • New Traditional Neighborhood Developments, the kind of mixed-used areas that one can find close to the office, are being built in cities and on former industrial sites. (The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Donatella Heads Downtown, Loyal Uptown Diners Follow

    Ama, on the western tip of Soho, is nothing like the Old World Italian restaurants that have dominated this neighborhood for decades. It seems like Ama has landed here almost from another planet: On a recent visit, a stylish Upper East Side crowd packed into Ama’s sleek white dining room on Macdougal Street, just a Read More

    Dining With Moira Hodgson

    David Burke Knows How

    To Play With His Food

    When I was very young, I played a practical joke on a friend who was a food snob, always carrying on about the great meals he’d had in France’s three-star restaurants (where, of course, I had never been). I bought a bag of those oily, Read More