things that make me happy//PS1

 
 Oh high! I’d like to introduce you to my new best friend, PS1. Proenza Schouler’s first bag…let’s oogle her…isn’t she dahling? I must say it’s quite the well structured piece for PS’s first time out on the handbag tip.
Top and bottom are the medium midnight leather (top) and sand suede (bottom) plus the goes-with-everything nude [...]

A Tale of 12 dishes//Boqueria Soho

One fine and cold night last week I was planning a dinner for four. Hmph, I thought. Where to? What would be a fun and new place to drink wine and eat lots of food? What would be a great object-of-my-obsession-Spain-centric spot? Hmph! Boqueria Soho. 
As per my usual no reservations game-plan, I sat with a [...]

Ahhh//Amaranth

Due to a certain Mr. A and his local neighborhood haunts where he pleasantly gets greeted by name, I’ve been to Amaranth quite a few times in the past few months and it’s quickly come to be on my lurve list. 
Located a dangerous block away from Barney’s on 62nd b/t 5th and Madison, Amaranth is a warm, sexy and [...]

oh i don’t know//mid-week special

I have been neglecting you.
It’s not my fault.
It’s the holidays/present buying/gift shopping/parties that made me.
I am sorry.
Here’s out review list fot this fine day. A bit slow but we do get the doomed zero-zero from the NYT.
- Bruni visits David Bouley’s Seceeion and, not surprisingly, gives the doomed venture zero stars. In the process he [...]

Everything is ok//Monday’s

Every thing’s going to be all right baybee. Help me not call this food porn please. It’s a tired and boring description. What do we call this type of mouthwatering photography? Can someone whisk me away to Cesare Casella’s Salumeria Rosi pwease! Oh lovely cured meats and pasta, how I adore and appreciate your salty [...]

Let them eat cake//J’adore Dior

O. Hell-oh. I can’t stop watching this Sofia Coppola-directed advert for Miss Dior Cherie (notice that same soft lighting used and popularized in Lost in Translation? how femme, no?). It makes my eyes pop open and giggle with delight at the thought of running around Paree in pretty dresses eating pastries [...]

Felice Wine Bar//quel surprise

It has been a long time since I have been surprised by the food or wine being  event good at an unexpected restaurant. Most of the time, when I dine out, I have a general idea of whether a meal will be successful or not via reviews I’ve read, opinions of close friends or my [...]

Somtimes you need a little…

Steve McQueen.  It doesn’t get more classic than this, does it now?

My Wife//one talented bitch

My wife recently opened a show with a 10 minute silent movie about Coco Chanel. What glamour! What authenticity! I dig it. I heart it. Make me Parisian!

Born again//Roasted Chicken bones rise from the ashes

 
What happens to that lovely roasted chicken carcass after you have raped and pillaged it for meat like the Stormin’ Norman? What’s that you say? You discard it like that mini backpack you had in the 7th grade? Psh! What insanity. With a little but of time (oh, say 6 hours) you can turn what [...]