Explore the latest in design and view over-the-top installations while mingling with fashion elites like Tracy Reese and Isabel and Ruben Toledo, and then shop all the glam goods at a silent auction, all benefiting DIFFA—Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Celebu-chef Geoffrey Zakarian is a co-host, so expect yummy food and also specialty cocktails—those fruity Read More
Winos with whopping wallets will be chugging primo vino at the 40th anniversary dinner for Cakebread Cellars, hosted by founders Dennis and Bruce Cakebread (will they let us eat cake too? Bread?), featuring winemaker Julianne Laks, director of viticulture Toby Halkovich and culinary director Brian Streeter, all at The Lambs Club. Even post-Googling, we are Read More
Country reminds me of the time when the Soviet Bloc nations were building glitzy showcase palaces to impress visiting Westerners. It’s not just the sight of middle-aged men dining in shirtsleeves in a roomful of chandeliers that transports me to an East German hotel circa 1990. It’s also the newly-restored Beaux-Arts grandeur, the green-and-white glass Read More
I’ve always had a soft spot for 56th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. It was where I had my first affordable French meal, at Larre’s, just across the street from Town (offically, it’s Town.; the logo, in these designer days, comes with a period). In the early 70′s, you could get a three-course Read More
