Stain Bar

In Brooklyn, a borough filled with “chill” bars, it can be surprisingly difficult to find one that strikes the right balance between good food and drink, a friendly-yet-safe environment, and plenty of good art and music available to tickle the creative nerve.
Stain is the place you’ve been looking for. It’s conveniently situated in Williamsburg, [...]

Bar Veloce

Not quite ready for the trendy Chelsea nightclubs, plush velvet ropes and snarly bouncers on Ninth Avenue or you’re tired from hauling Loehman’s and Williams & Sonoma bags down Seventh? Relief is here in the form of tasty three-finger sandwiches, a resident sommelier, and a vast collection of award-winning and downright delicious wines.
From the owners: [...]

Cafe Fiorello

So, being a culturally literate girl, you’ve just spilled out of a matinee at the New York City Ballet, or the Met, or the Symphony, or even an artsy movie at the Walter Reade theatre. And you’re hungry for something with a touch of class.
Stand at the Lincoln Center fountain and look across the [...]

Joe the Art of Coffee, Various Locations

Pala, Lower East Side

I stumbled on to Pala by sheer accident. It was a late Saturday night and Allen was buzzing with outdoor conversations, bottles of wine being uncorked and cabs screeching to a collective halt. My girlfriend and I were famished and headed into the open-air restaurant to grab a slice on the run.
We certainly didn’t expect [...]

Naidre’s

Hankering for walnut brownies, overstuffed ciabatta sandwiches, homemade granola, piping-hot peanut butter cookies without all the yuppified Park Slope attitude? My home base for long conversations and tasty fare has been Naidre’s, a sweet cafe that escapes the stroller-mom madness of bustling Park Slope.
Inside resembles your breakfast nook replete with cookie jars, coffee pots, [...]

Happy Ending Lounge, Loho

Tempo Restaurant and Wine Bar, Park Slope, Brooklyn

winebar, East Village

Passerby, Meat Packing District