Jovia
Two Stars
135 East 62nd Street
(at Lexington Avenue)
212-752-6000
Dress: Casual chic
Lighting: Varies from room to room, soft and low to overhead pinpoint
Noise Level: Reasonable
Wine List: Approximately 250 bottles, American and Italian, 30 wines by the glass
Credit Cards: All major
Price Range: Main courses, Read More
Jovia
Two Stars
135 East 62nd Street
(at Lexington Avenue)
212-752-6000
Dress: Casual chic
Lighting: Varies from room to room, soft and low to overhead pinpoint
Noise Level: Reasonable
Wine List: Approximately 250 bottles, American and Italian, 30 wines by the glass
Credit Cards: All major
“We’ve a large group coming in tonight, so do you mind sharing a bed with another couple?”
Of course not.
The host led us into a vast space filled with king-size beds framed with silky white curtains and strewn with beige and gold pillows. It looked like a furniture showroom-albeit one with a disco Read More
5 Ninth’s Intense Global Cuisine,
Courtesy of Trusty Mortar and Pestle
“Going to Pastis?” asked the cabdriver when I gave him directions to an address in the meatpacking district. Not quite: Instead, we pulled up on the opposite side of the cobblestone intersection at Gansevoort and Little West 12th, in front of a stand-alone Read More
South Meets West:
Provence Lights Up Broadway
The zaniest dessert on the menu at Aix is the licorice panna cotta, served with tangerines and bergamot sauce. “It tastes of cigarette butts,” said my husband. “But it’s actually very good.”
This strange comment came at the end of a meal that had included foie Read More
DiSpirito Empire:
Still Small, Still Shining
When Rocco DiSpirito burst upon the scene five years ago with Union Pacific, his food dazzled New Yorkers. His style of French-Asian cooking was startlingly original, with juxtapositions of textures and tastes that were totally unexpected. Who’d ever thought of matching bay scallops with uni and mustard oil? Read More
My wife is a lawyer. Every year, a steady stream of wide-eyed summer interns flood the New York firms. Associates, like my wife, like it because they get carte blanche to take the interns to lunch at the city’s swankiest restaurants. Interns like it, of course, because they get well fed. Law firms like it Read More
At the door of the dining room stands a scraggly metal bird perched on one leg. As we waited for our table, my husband, who had left his Peterson field guide at home, stared at the bird, then at its flock of silver cousins above the monumental fireplace and at the restaurant’s name on the Read More
