Aburiya Kinnosuke – the Best Restaurants in NYC
Photo by Maarten Heerlien 213 E 45th St New York, NY 10017 There’s a category of Japanese restaurant where you’ll see an elaborate open charcoal fire in the center of the room, and various configurations of meat, shellfish, and vegetables are run through with skewers or placed on spits and arranged like funeral spectators, at […]
Xi An Famous Foods (西安名吃) – The Best Restaurants in NYC
Photo by Gary Stevens 81 St Marks Pl New York, NY 10003 Xi An Famous Foods, named for the city in western China, had humble beginnings in two basement food courts in Flushing. No more. The Famous Foods are taking the City by storm, with locations in Midtown Manhattan, the East Village, Williamsburg, and a […]
Basta Pasta – the Best Restaurants in NYC
37 W 17th St (between Avenue Of The Americas & 5th Ave) New York, NY 10011 Basta Pasta is far from a traditional Italian Restaurant. NYC has those in spades, to be sure, but Basta Pasta is neither old-school-family-run nor new-cuisine Italian. It’s actually Japanese, founded in 1985 and inspired by the open-kitchen design […]
Long Island Wine Country – Weekend Getaways from NYC
You’ll hear a lot about the southern fork of eastern Long Island when you google “weekend getaways from NYC”. That’s where the Hamptons are. Have we been to the Hamptons? Yes. The Verdict? Skip it, unless you’re Billy Joel. (If you’re looking for a beach getaway for yourself, try Cape Cod.) The best feature […]
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Kykuit, The Rockefeller Estate – Weekend Getaways from NYC
Ah, the Rockefeller family. John D., founder of Standard Oil, was a simple man. No drinking, no smoking, no gambling, no dancing. Actually that last one I could see. When he commissioned Kykuit, named for the hill where it sat/sits (and dutch for “lookout”), John D. envisioned a modest 32-bedroom farmhouse surrounded by porches. […]
Lyndhurst
635 S Broadway Tarrytown, NY 10591 If you like your conspicuous consumption the way I like mine, you like it Old School. The Hudson Valley is the Mecca for the outsized estates of the American magnates and robber-barons we’ve all read about in history class. Rockefeller. Roosevelt. A generation of self-made American royalty whose […]
Cayuga Lake Wine Trail
Nestled along the western side of Cayuga Lake are a handful of wineries, in just such an assortment that one could, if one chose, “winery hop” northward from Ithaca. If you’ve been to Napa have that in your mind’s eye, the Wine Trail, like many east coast wineries, is a different experience altogether. Unlike […]
How to Get to Ithaca from NYC
Photo by Tony Hisgett Disclosure – we have no affiliation with any of the businesses we discuss in this article. The fact that Ithaca is just long enough a drive to make it an undertaking also makes it an oft-overlooked weekend getaway destination, especially as throngs of weekenders head for the beach. (Or the […]
Route 6A, Dennis, and Brewster
If it’s a nice day, you can make an afternoon out of driving the North Cape’s route 6A from Brewster to Dennis, or vice versa. Even if you don’t stop anywhere, the scenery is beautiful. If you have time, however, and are interested in shopping and art galleries, this spot is full of them. […]
