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Summer is finally upon us, a nd I’m look ing for wa rd to creating Manhattan’s sister publication, Beach—our more literary compendium for the Hamptons—with my top-notch team and sharing all the wonders of those hamlets. I can’t wait to spend the evening at Montauk’s East by Northeast restaurant, with new chef Jeremy Blutstein at the helm; to sip morning tea at SagTown’s new Montauk outpost adjacent to Cynthia Rowley’s shop; and, come August, to host the Piaget Hamptons Cup polo tournament with Nacho Figueras to benefit the poverty-fighting Robin Hood Foundation.

In this, our annual Food Issue, Manhattan’s food critic, the illustrious Gael Greene, ventures to Harlem to investigate its best eateries; gourmet Mexican guru Julian Medina from Toloache gives us a yummy fish taco recipe; and a quartet of famous NYC chefs humors us in our Third Degree section—all in addition to the trends worth noting in our annual food roundup.

To that end, here are a few of my best-loved eats at some downright delicious NYC restaurants: • My son, Mario, and I love the breakfast at Artisanal Fromagerie, Bistro and Wine Bar. I started going there for the cheese fondue, but the baked spinach and eggs or the ricotta-stuffed croissant are also to die for. 2 Park Ave., artisanalbistro.com • Every true New Yorker should call Philippe Chow’s succulent chicken satay a classic food staple. 33 E. 60th St., philippechow.com • While Village Prime’s filet mignon is as good as it gets, the tuna tartare starter is fresh and flavorful. 302 Bleecker St., villageprimenyc.com • Souffle doesn’t get any better than at Swifty’s; the cheese-filled dish is a favorite. 1007 Lexington Ave., swiftysnyc.com • Le Paris Bistrot’s artichoke vinaigrette is a perfectly satisfying appetizer and my kids’ favorite “green” vegetable. 1312 Madison Ave., leparisbistrot.com • At The Back Room at One57, located in the Park Hyatt New York, the lobster bisque with a dollop of caviar and the side of Brussels sprouts smothered in syrupy chile lemon and cranberries are divine. 153 W. 57th St., hyatt.com • New to Carnegie Hill is Via Quadronno, perfect for a quick soup and salad before school pickup. 25 E. 73rd St., viaquadronno.com • Try the best Dover sole with a side of beurre blanc at power lunch spot The Four Seasons Restaurant before July—when Seagram Building owner Aby Rosen will close the eatery for a few months to make updates and modernize the cuisine at this landmark hot spot. 99 E. 52nd St., fourseasonsrestaurant.com Feast on.

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THE LOOK Silk georgette deep-V embroidered dress, $15,500, at Gucci THE BEAUTY Lustrous Glow foundation, $65, Luxe finishing powder, $55, Sheer Blushing powder, $49, Golden Glow bronzer, $59, and Audacious Color-Intense lipstick in Ardor, $39, all by Gucci at Saks Fifth Avenue THE TEAM Photography by Helena Palazzi Styling by James Aguiar Hair by Johnny Lavoy for ABTP.com Makeup by Kim Weber for Gucci Shot on location at Nandana Villa on Grand Bahama Island Model: Sophie Theobald with Women/360 Management

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COV ER THE PASSIONS OF MARION COTILLARD

88 The Oscar-winning

actress—and face of Dior—channels French heroine Joan of Arc in the New York Philharmonic’s season finale production.

FASHION FREE SPIRIT

92 Spring’s best dresses

sweep up a spell of color and luxurious length.

88

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TASTY DELIGHTS

100 For our annual Food

YOUNG BLOODS

106 These six under-40

Issue, we track the city’s top culinary trends and must-eat meals.

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66 36 EDITOR’S NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 GET THE LOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

NOW IN N YC

ACCESSORIES

52 The Whitney enlists two transatlantic talents to commemorate its new downtown NYC digs .

BEAUTY

54 Shimmering shades of bronze and gold give your skin an alluring sun-kissed glow .

CLICK

28 Ethereal beauty at the Frick Collection

BROOD

NOW

30 Back in time with French actor Olivier Martinez; the ABCs of shoe design; Joseph Abboud’s house of style; Henri Bendel celebrates 120 years; fresh-air fun; and more .

SPOTLIGHT

57 Eat your words with place mats from Lisa Perry .

NEWS

58 The Land of Nod meets Golden Books; Snoopy satchels; family-oriented summer fun .

36 We get up close and personal with four of the city’s top toques: Daniel Boulud, Marcus Samuelsson, Eric Ripert and Michael White .

ESSAY

60 Barnard College Center for Toddler Development director Tovah Klein on the best ways to prep your brood for the shift to school

SOCI A L CIRCLES

DESIGN

ON THE SCENE 41 NYC’s top 50 chef-restaurateurs

SPOTLIGHT

ST Y LE

DESIGNER PICKS 64 Escape to the Hamptons with beachy

SPOTLIGHT

47 Fashion designer Zuhair Murad proves

April showers bring May flowers .

OBSESSIONS

selections from Mabley Handler Interior Design .

NEWS

66 As NYCxDesign descends upon the city, we

go straight to the tastemakers at six of the largest events for their most anticipated showings .

48 Spring must-haves from shoe designer Alberto Moretti and Cushnie et Ochs’ Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs

63 The Baccarat Hotel’s crystal-clear beauty

REAL ESTATE

70 Closing the door on the doorman; a

stunning West Village pad with a real backyard .

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A RT & CULTUR E

SPOTLIGHT

75 Frida Kahlo, how does your garden grow?

NEWS

76 A look inside the just-opened Whitney

114 Doing the body good at any age; stylish new athletic collaborations.

JET SET

116 Wind (and wine) your way through the

Burgundy region of France for an unparalleled culinary journey.

Museum of American Art, which bid adieu to its Upper East Side location after nearly five decades for new Renzo Piano-designed digs in the Meatpacking District

BOOKS

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78 Vincent van Gogh’s final flowers; mite-sized mobiles by Alexander Calder; summer standouts.

FE AST

80 Exploring the street-art movement; Brad Gooch’s

SPOTLIGHT

127 NYC restaurateur John McDonald talks juggling demands.

82 NYC’s best summer happenings; actress

REVIEW

128 Food critic Gael Greene stops by four delicious Harlem eateries.

86 React to Film co-founder Coralie Charriol Paul on how film can impact young lives

GUIDE

134 James Gersten wants you to be his guest;

NYC memories; summer reads from BookCourt.

CALENDAR

Sutton Foster on city living and getting Younger.

DATEBOOK

a recipe for Toloache’s tacos; natural eats from Wyse Organics; four waterfront eateries.

TR AV EL & R ECR E ATION SPOTLIGHT

122 Above-and-beyond amenities—from fun waterslides to aerial camera drones to custom subs—from three outstanding charter yachts

VOY EUR

113 A bespoke wine program, beautifully

145 The city’s best spring soirees

ICON INDEX 150 Restaurateur Danny Meyer, by the numbers

renovated rooms and a brand-new spa give the Russian River Valley’s Farmhouse Inn a bounty of rural allure.

SATIR E

152 Sartorially speaking with Patricia Field

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CONTRIBUTORS “I’m in-between.

Of course I like old-school, but I’m wise enough to know time moves on, and if New York doesn’t move with it, it’ll get left behind. So there’s the good and the bad.”

—ERIN KORNFELD (LEFT) AND ERICA LEONE, WHO PHOTOGRAPHED FOUR CHEFS FOR OUR “THIRD DEGREE” PAGES, ON DISHING WITH THEIR SUBJECTS DURING THE SHOOTS

“Breakfast at Florent— scrambled eggs, toast, jam, cinnamon-y coffee and decadent french fries.”

—JAMES SERVIN, WHO PROFILES TWO RESTAURATEURS IN “STYLE AND SUSTENANCE” AND “MAN WITH A PLAN” FOR OUR FEAST SECTION, ON THE BEST MEAL HE’S EVER HAD IN NYC

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“I look forward to the first rhubarb pie at the Round Swamp Farm Stand in East Hampton. … And then I start looking forward to peach pie.

And then I start craving plum pie.”

—FOOD CRITIC GAEL GREENE, WHO WRITES “HARLEM KNIGHTS,” ON HER FAVORITE SUMMER TREATS

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“A few of the chefs serendipitously had big nights just before our shoots—Daniel [Boulud] came in the morning after his 60th birthday bash and Marcus [Samuelsson] the morning after the opening of [his restaurant] Streetbird in Harlem—so we got front-row seats to hear them dish all the fun details. Our favorite might be that Daniel’s 1-yearold son was there wearing a tuxedo onesie!”

—STYLIST PATRICIA FIELD, WHO PENS OUR SATIRE PAGE, ON WHETHER SHE PREFERS OLD OR NEW NYC

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The Frick Collection The Frick Collection’s Young Fellows Ball is widely considered the party of the season for NYC’s young social set. This year’s event, celebrating the museum’s exhibit Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France (on view through May 17), certainly measured up—nearly 600 guests, many of whom donned red ruffles or black lace in honor of the Ball’s Spanish theme, gathered for the black-tie bash within the galleries that were once the private home of Henry Clay Frick and his family.

Here, partygoer Annika Connor, looking as ethereal as a woodland fairy heralding the advent of spring, pauses to contemplate works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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LOVE AND WAR French actor Olivier Martinez, currently appearing in the History Channel’s eight-part miniseries Texas Rising (and who happens to be married to actress Halle Berry), talks to us about money, Mexico and margaritas, and what it’s like co-starring with some of the most legendary actors in the movie biz. –Carita Rizzo When cast as Mexican Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna, you became somewhat of an expert on the period.

How did that happen?

I didn’t know anything about the Texas war, so I read books from the point of view of both Americans and Mexicans.

In the movie, you don’t have good guys or bad guys. You have war, and winners and losers.

What was most interesting about Santa Anna?

The character was larger than life. He was a very charismatic man. He was a womanizer and a gambler. He never liked politics. What he loved most was being a soldier.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY Olivier Martinez’s co-stars in Texas Rising, airing Memorial Day, include Bill Paxton, Ray Liotta, Brendan Fraser and Kris Kristofferson.

The cast of Texas Rising is stellar. What was it like to work with Bill Paxton and Ray Liotta? We were

making war during the day and drinking margaritas at night. Those guys are great actors. I mean, I was watching Ray’s movies before I even became an actor. It’s very exciting to work with new actors, but when you know the accomplishments of the actors you’re working with, it’s even more exciting.

You used to live in NYC. How would you describe New Yorkers? Not the

nicest people at first sight... but the nicest at second sight. New Yorkers have a lot of dimension, and I like that. The first time I came to NYC, I was 18 years old and I had no money, so I couldn’t do anything except sit on the street and watch people walking by. And it was fascinating. I was like, ‘This is much better than TV!’ This city is amazing.

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MASTER OF CEREMONIES For more than a decade, Bronson Van Wyck has carefully honed his skills planning the perfect party.

A designer and producer of New York’s most high-profile and imaginative events, Van Wyck uses his meticulous eye for detail to anticipate how guests will want to feel at any given moment.

Party planning, he says, is about telling a story and taking guests on a journey. Through it all, Van Wyck credits his mother with influencing his career. “She gave me the best schooling you could ask for — to be a gracious host,” he said.

Where did the idea for your Arrowhead Farms line of cocktail mixes come from?

Growing up on a farm in Tuckerman, Arkansas, my sister and I were always experimenting in the kitchen with fresh ingredients from our mother’s garden. Every Christmas we made huge batches of Bloody Marys in my bathtub. Each year, more friends started asking for big jugs of it, so what started out as a little hobby has unexpectedly turned into a bestseller.

Tell us about your favorite party.

It’s usually the last one I worked on. I learn something every single time.

What is your definition of perfection?

When a guest walks away from a party with a memory, a new friend or even just a big smile.

What’s your favorite tip for serving the perfect Martini?

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FOLLOW SUIT Clockwise from left: Abboud’s new collection comprises fine Italian fabrics and tailored fits; the new flagship store; Joseph Abboud.

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HOUSE OF STYLE “I guess survival is some form of success in our industry,” says menswear designer Joseph Abboud.

It’s just days after his new flagship has opened, and he’s overlooking the Madison Avenue store from its mezzanine, surrounded by richly patterned Italian textiles in subdued tones. The occasion is a poignant one for Abboud who, at 65, has been in the business for nearly 50 years, starting out with a Boston-based clothier when he was still in his teens. The opening of the 4,300-square-foot flagship marks a triumphant return, this being Abboud’s second go at a Manhattan retail location. This time around, his offerings have been upgraded to first class—the fabrics are from the finest Italian mills, instore tailoring is available for off-the-rack pieces and

custom suiting is offered with options to please even the most fashion-forward types—but at economy prices, with even the custom suits costing less than $2,000. Given his obsession with materials, Abboud made certain the store featured rich, pleasing fabrics throughout—and not just on hangers, but also on the walls, floors and seating. “You can walk in and understand the DNA of the brand without even seeing the clothes,” he says. Ultimately, though, it’s all about the shirts, ties, blazers and suits, which feature colors the designer reveals are inspired not by a fashion palette, but by an artist’s palette. “I like the tones you have to discover,” he says. “The texture of your clothes can be like the texture in your life.”

424 Madison Ave., josephabboud.com –Thomas P. Farley

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Henri Bendel is celebrating 120 years in business, and there’s reason to rejoice. The retailer opened its first store in Greenwich Village in 1895, and ever since the ring of the first register, they’ve brought style ambrosia to savvy shoppers. The ultimate early adopter, Bendel’s essentially invented the concept of semiannual sales and in-store makeovers, and its brown-and-white stripe motif remains as much a part of NYC’s iconography as a yellow taxicab. As part of its anniversary celebrations, Bendel’s is launching a new fragrance, Suite 712 Eau de Parfum (3.4 oz. for $98). Slightly floral and decidedly sexy, the new juice comes in a superchic bottle—worthy of any vanity-top skyline. 712 Fifth Ave., henribendel.com –Susan Swimmer 32 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

Rimowa, the suitcase company known for its trademark grooved sides, has been seasoned travelers’ go-to luggage for more than a century.

The recent release—just in time for summer travels— of its new Bossa Nova collection, inspired by CEO Dieter Morszeck’s affinity for Brazil, combines Amazonian style with enough durability to face a school of piranha. Featuring a jungle-green polycarbonate shell, leather corners and contrast stitching, the collection’s pieces are as festive as Carnival’s bright costumes. Best yet, a portion of the collection’s sales proceeds are donated to the organization Saúde e Alegria, which works to protect the Amazon rain forest. Samba on into Rimowa’s new Madison Avenue store to pick up a piece. 535 Madison Ave., rimowa.com –Kathryn Maier FEELING GROOVY The Bossa Nova cabin multiwheel IATA in green/beige, $1,250, at Rimowa

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NYC OFFERS PLENTY OF WAYS TO GET YOUR CULTURE FIX WHILE SOAKING UP SOME SUNSHINE. HERE, OUR EARLY-SUMMER FAVORITES. –Ryan Feuer

By Jacqueline Z. Grossnickle

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Shakespeare in the Park

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The Public Theater stages The Tempest, starring Sam Waterson and directed by Michael Greif (May 27 to July 5), and Cymbeline, starring Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe and directed by Tony-winner Daniel Sullivan (July 23 to Aug. 23). Free, Delacorte Theater, 81 Central Park W., publictheater.org

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Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic

Join a crowd of VIPs and celebrities to watch a polo match under the Statue of Liberty—though the real sport here is the people-watching. May 30, from $65, Liberty State Park, 200 Morris Pesin Drive, Jersey City, N.J., vcpoloclassic.com

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Museum Mile Festival

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Nine of NYC’s top museums, including the Met, the Guggenheim and the Neue Galerie, stay open until 9PM, offering free entry along a stretch of Fifth Avenue closed to traffic. June 9, Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 105th streets, museummilefestival.org

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Taste of Summer

Kick off summer with gourmet tastings from more than 25 acclaimed restaurants—including Le Cirque, ‘21’ Club, Telepan and Brushstroke—as well as a silent auction and live music, to benefit Central Park. June 10, from $400, Bethesda Terrace, centralparknyc.org

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New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks

Celebrating its 50th year, the Philharmonic continues to offer free outdoor performances across the boroughs in Central Park (June 17 and 18), Prospect Park (June 19), Cunningham Park (June 22) and Van Cortlandt Park (June 23). Locations vary, nyphil.org

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A restaurant’s staying power can be attributed as much to its food as to the personality of its chef.

So we got up close and personal with four of NYC’s top toques, who also happen to be friends—they all attended the Cayman Cookout in January (caymanislands.ky), Eric Ripert’s annual Grand Cayman-based food festival—to find out their Google habits, guilty pleasures and the secrets to their success.

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ERIC RIPERT

Chef and co-owner, Le Bernardin, Aldo Sohm Wine Bar; host, Cooking Channel’s Avec Eric Which five iconic figures would be at your dream dinner party?

200,000 Twitter followers and 107,000 on Instagram.

The Dalai Lama, Geronimo, Auguste Escoffier, Beethoven and Brigitte Bardot

Who would play you in your film biopic?

What’s in your home refrigerator right now?

My wife is very funny.

Greek yogurt, dark chocolate, chorizo and Champagne

What dish signifies NYC to you?

Brains. In the ’60s and ’70s in France our parents were convinced that feeding us brains would make us smart.

I still won’t eat them.

We have so many different cultures here. If I say something Italian, the Irish will be pissed off. If I say Irish, the Jewish will be pissed off, or the Chinese will be pissed off.

It’s a big mishmash, which is more interesting and fun.

Favorite music to dine by?

Favorite NYC restaurant?

I don’t mind having Wynton Marsalis in the background.

Balthazar. I’m relentless about bringing the family there for lunch at least twice a month.

Food you refused to eat as a kid?

TV guilty pleasure?

I watch very little TV, mainly Charlie Rose and CNN’s Parts Unknown. If you ask me what’s happening on Mad Men, I can’t tell you.

Last thing you Googled?

I don’t Google. I don’t have a computer. I don’t want to be a prisoner of technology.

But you use social media...

I tweet a lot. I like to inspire and make people laugh. I have 36 M ANH AT TAN M AY 2015

Who’s the funniest person you know?

Libation of choice?

Wine, Scotch and tequila What’s your hangover cure?

A Bloody Mary and a burger.

Balthazar has served many burgers to me.

What does no one know about Eric Ripert?

I’m addicted to a certain brand of soda [Diet Coke].

I’m trying to quit and it’s very difficult. It’s an evil product.

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Spice you can’t live without?

I love cumin, curry, paprika and so on, but I cannot cook without salt and pepper.

As an old guy, Anthony Bourdain—he has white hair.

As a young guy... someone good-looking [laughs].

MARCUS SAMUELSSON Chef and owner, Red Rooster Harlem, Ginny’s Supper Club, Streetbird Rotisserie

Which five iconic figures would be at your dream dinner party?

My grandmother, I want her to see that everything she taught me is here; Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., because I’m a product of what both of them fought for; my hero, Leah Chase, who’s still alive and kicking and cooking better than ever; and, of course, my wife.

Dish you prepare best?

My wife makes this incredible doro wat, an Ethiopian chicken stew, and I always take the leftovers and make breakfast for her as a thank you. I add a little bit of injera bread and a little bit of creamy eggs. It’s delicious.

Spice you can’t live without?

Ethiopian berbere, a mild chile-like blend Food you refused to eat as a kid?

I didn’t have those options. The only time I was allowed to pick my food was on my birthday.

I love when people say, ‘My kid is a picky eater.’ It’s because you allow them to be that way.

Worst job you ever had?

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I had to help out on a fishing boat—fixing nets, wiping off fish blood. But it really wasn’t a bad job.

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How does a chef stay in shape?

I love running, and I play soccer with my Swedish soccer team where I run against 22-year-old college kids. It’s the most humbling and hardest thing you can ever do.

Who would play you in your film biopic?

Anthony Mackie. He can 37 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

look a little East African.

And I’d look taller because he’s taller than me.

TV guilty pleasure?

English Premier League football. I wake up early on Saturday mornings to watch it, and I wake up my wife when someone scores. She’s like, ‘It’s 7:30am on a Saturday. Shut up.’

Describe your first NYC experience.

I came here to play soccer when I was a kid. We stayed in Times Square and I met [hip-hop artists] Eric B. & Rakim, who were shooting a music video at the time. At that moment I thought: What the hell is this place? I gotta come back and live here. Six years later I was back.

What’s it like identifying as an Ethiopian, a Swede and a New Yorker?

My wife and I are Ethiopians; we’re Swedish; we’re immigrants; we’re Harlemites; we’re New Yorkers... we represent all of that. Being a person with a platform, I’m able to expose people to more things. Even being a black cook because cooking was anonymous labor for black people until it became a profession. And there still aren’t enough people of color in the industry. I want to connect Harlem locally to downtown and the rest of city, and also to the rest of the country and the world.

What does no on know about Marcus Samuelsson?

That I used to be an ice skater.

Growing up with two sisters who are older than you, you do everything that they do. So I was ice skating. And I liked it.

MICHAEL WHITE

Chef and co-owner of Altamarea Group, which runs 16 restaurants worldwide, including Marea, Ai Fiori, Ristorante Morini and Osteria Morini in NYC

My mother and my dad’s parents because they loved food, Stevie Ray Vaughan and [race car driver] Michael Schumacher When did you know you wanted to be a chef?

In 1989 I told my brother and my father, who was a banker, that I wanted to be a chef and they were like, ‘That’s fantastic, but how do you plan to make a living?’ I got into cooking long before it was fashionable.

Dish you prepare best?

Pasta. Pasta is amazing. It’s flour and eggs, and it feels like leather or silk. It’s sexy.

It’s sensual.

Ingredient you can’t live without?

Really good olive oil. You need to respect Italian food.

Favorite cooking music?

Hip-hop and rap. Wu Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah, Action Bronson, Dr. Dre— he’s my go-to when I’m on the train to work. I just have to be careful playing it at home with my 11-year-old daughter...

Is your daughter a foodie?

She’s a great eater, and that’s without us pushing it on her. She’ll say, ‘Dad, I really have to have the pad see ew.’

What’s your favorite word?

Ayayay

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open a conch; a perfect croissant technique. I probably google 50 times a day. Well, maybe not every day... but how would we do anything without Google?

Who’s the funniest person you know?

It depends on the alcohol level... but my friend Josh Ozersky [founding editor of Grub Street] is pretty hilarious.

When did you know you were a New Yorker?

On 9/11. I lived in Battery Park City at the time and saw everything. My wife and I were in the park when the first tower went down and we just started running and were covered in insulation and drywall dust. I knew I was a New Yorker when I went through that—after only living here a year—and didn’t leave.

Favorite pastime?

I’m into rat rods right now.

You go to a junkyard and find an old pickup truck that’s been weathered and you replace everything underneath. But they’re not conducive to NYC. You can’t go to the Hamptons driving one of those things.

Best advice you’ve ever been given?

To lead by example and have a great work ethic with whatever you do. I learned that from my father, and that’s the way I roll.

Last thing you Googled?

What does no one know about Michael White?

I should be the spokesman for Google because my team and I are always looking stuff up.

If you want to learn how to

That I’m really sensitive and empathetic. I’m a tough cookie, but I’m not a meanie.

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Which five iconic figures would be at your dream dinner party?

DANIEL BOULUD

Chef and owner of 16 restaurants worldwide, including Daniel, DBGB Kitchen & Bar, Boulud Sud and Bar Boulud in NYC Which five iconic figures would be at your dream dinner party?

Escoffier, because he was a great chef who recoded French cuisine; Charles Ritz, because he was Escoffier’s partner and he defined luxury in hospitality; Paul Bocuse, because he’s our contemporary Escoffier; Alain Ducasse, because he’s the younger version of Escoffier and Bocuse; and Ferran Adrià, because he invented a cuisine that no one had done before.

And what are you cooking?

A recipe from each of them, a recipe from [French chef and food writer] Marie-Antoine Carême and one of my own recipes, which would be sea scallop black tie—layered sea scallop and black truffle wrapped in crispy puff pastry with a truffle sauce.

Food you refused to eat as a child?

Bananas. I don’t know if it’s the texture, the flavor... something turns me off. I refuse to eat them to this day.

What food trend do you wish would just go away?

Imitation cronuts. The only one should be [Dominique] Ansel’s.

Worst job you’ve ever had?

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As a summer apprentice for the restaurant at a municipal pool when I was 15. I made steak frites all day, and I knew that if I kept only making steak frites I would be a very mediocre cook, so I hated that job.

What’s your favorite word?

Je connais. It means ‘I know’ in French. My daughter teases 39 M ANH AT TAN M AY 2015

me because I’m always saying ‘Je connais, je connais,’ even if sometimes I don’t know what she’s talking about.

Last thing you Googled?

Relais & Châteaux—so nothing kinky or illegal!

I’m trying to track down a chef in France to come and cook with me in NYC. TV guilty pleasure?

My wife has more than I do.

She’s obsessed with all the city versions of CSI. What’s the last great book you read?

Shadows in the Vineyard

by Maximillian Potter, a suspenseful mystery about a plot to destroy the vineyards of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti How does a chef stay in shape?

I watch my fat and calorie intake, and I don’t drink soda or eat too many carbohydrates.

And I try to drink alcohol in moderation, and mostly wine.

What always surprises you about New Yorkers?

How smart, well-trained, well-informed, well-educated and, often, well-versed they are.

I don’t know exactly what keeps me in NYC, but I think a lot of it has to do with the people.

What does no one know about Daniel Boulud?

That I’m really a caveman.

When I’m in NYC I will change my shirt three times a day, but when I go to my family farm in Lyon, I will change my shirt every three days. I don’t care. I smell. I’m not shaved.

I’m a caveman, and that’s what I love to be.

SOCIAL

CIRCLES

YES, CHEF!

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Marc Murphy (left), chef and owner of Ditch Plains and Landmarc, and Geoffrey Zakarian, chef and owner of The Lambs Club and The National—and both of whom are judges on the Food Network’s Chopped —lead our list of NYC’s Top 50 Chef-Restaurateurs on the following pages.

“The key to being a successful chef in New York is a passion for food and a strong work ethic. This business requires incredible hard work—and it’s almost never glamorous— so the trick is to choose a profession where you’re always having fun and loving what you’re doing. That’s what we all have in common: a real love for this business.”

–MARC MURPHY, CHEF, RESTAURATEUR, TV PERSONALITY AND AUTHOR OF THE NEW COOKBOOK SEASON WITH AUTHORITY

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NYC’S TOP CHEF-RESTAUR ATEURS

NYC’S TOP 50 CHEFRESTAURATEURS These NYC chefs keep it cool on the business end as owners while turning up the heat as head of the kitchen.

Dominique Ansel, chef and owner, Dominique Ansel Bakery Dan Barber, executive chef and co-owner, Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns Lidia Bastianich, chef and owner, Felidia; and co-owner, B&B Hospitality Group, including Babbo, Casa Mono, Del Posto and Eataly Mario Batali, chef and partner, B&B Hospitality Group Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer, chefs and co-owners, Toro April Bloomfield, chef and owner, The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, The John Dory Oyster Bar, Salvation Taco, and The Spotted Pig Daniel Boulud, chef and owner of seven NYC restaurants, including Café Boulud, Daniel and DB Bistro Moderne Bruce Bromberg and Eric Bromberg, chefs and co-founders, Blue Ribbon Restaurants Group Marco Canora, chef and co-owner, Hearth Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi, chefs and co-owners, Major Food Group, including Carbone, Dirty French and Parm Floyd Cardoz, executive chef and partner, White Street Andrew Carmellini, chef and owner of seven NYC restaurants, including Bar Primi, The Dutch, Lafayette, and Little Park David Chang, chef and owner, Momofuku restaurants

Thomas Chen, executive chef and owner, Tuome

Dan Barber and Aria Sloss Bruce and Eric Bromberg

Amanda Cohen, chef and owner, Dirt Candy Tom Colicchio, chef and owner, Craft, Colicchio & Sons and ‘Wichcraft Scott Conant, chef and owner, Scarpetta John DeLucie, executive chef and proprietor, Crown and The Lion; and chef and partner, The Waverly Inn Wylie Dufresne, chef and owner, Alder Bobby Flay, chef and owner, Bar Americain and Gato

Jason Pfeifer and Nick Anderer

Marc Forgione, chef and owner, American Cut and Restaurant Marc Forgione John Fraser, chef and co-owner, Dovetail and Narcissa Amanda Freitag, executive chef and owner, Empire Diner

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Markus Glocker, chef and partner, Bâtard Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and owner, Prune

Alfred and Sophie Portale

Daniel Humm, chef and co-owner, Eleven Madison Park and The NoMad Thomas Keller, chef and owner, Per Se Nick Kim and Jimmy Lau, chefs and co-owners, Shuko Anita Lo, chef and owner, Annisa Ignacio Mattos, chef and co-owner, Estela

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Nick Anderer, chef and partner, Maialino and Marta

Jonah Miller, executive chef and owner, Huertas Marc Murphy, chef and owner, Ditch Plains and Landmarc

Justin Smillie

Ignacio Mattos

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Daisuke Nakazawa, chef and owner, Sushi Nakazawa Joe Ng, chef and owner, Decoy and RedFarm David Pasternack, chef and partner, Esca; and chef partner, Barchetta Alfred Portale, executive chef and partner, Gotham Bar and Grill Alex Raij, co-chef and co-owner, El Quinto Pino, La Vara and Txikito Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner, Aldo Sohm Wine Bar and Le Bernardin Marcus Samuelsson, chef and owner, American Table Café and Bar, Ginny’s Supper Club, Red Rooster Harlem, Streetbird Rotisserie and Uptown Brasserie

Cicely Tyson and Alexander Smalls

Jesse Schenker, chef and owner, The Gander and Recette

Gabrielle Hamilton and Suzanne Goin

Alexander Smalls, executive chef and owner, The Cecil Harlem and Minton’s

Bill Telepan and Nancy Easton

Justin Smillie, chef and partner, Upland Alex Stupak, chef and owner, Empellón Al Pastor, Empellón Cocina and Empellón Taqueria Masa Takayama, chef and owner, Masa Bill Telepan, executive chef and owner, Telepan Jean-Georges Vongerichten, chef and owner, 11 NYC restaurants, including ABC Cocina, JeanGeorges and The Mercer Kitchen Jonathan Waxman, chef and owner, Barbuto Michael White, chef and co-owner, Altamarea Group, including Ai Fiori, The Butterfly, Costata, Nicoletta, Marea and Osteria Morini

Tom Colicchio

Jamie Bissonnette

April Bloomfield

Mario Carbone

Mario Batali and son Leo

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Dominique Ansel

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STYLE

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MAY FLOWERS

Conjuring glamour comes easily to Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad, whose suggestive yet sublime dresses are red-carpet mainstays donned by Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé. For summer’s ready-to-wear collection, he culled inspiration from spring blossoms, which he embroidered across gossamer gowns, printed on peasant-style tunics and etched on perforated skirts using broderie anglaise. The delicate dresses seen here encompass the evergreen impact of a white summer frock—and the ephemeral essence of beauty in bloom. Tattoo effect flower embroidery dress, $8,416; beaded tulle fitted short dress, $8,123; beaded lace mermaid-cut dress, $9,261; beaded tulle chiffon dress, $11,828, Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave., zuhairmurad.com

“[For this collection, I put] flowers front and center. With a shower of 3-D petals and a parterre of digital prints, the power of florals sets the tone of ultimate refinement.”

–ZUHAIR MURAD, FASHION DESIGNER

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FINE AND DANDY Shoe designer Alberto Morettiʼs summer picks are a mix of elegance and practicality.

“This is the best cream for everyday moisturizing.”

Multirepair Nutri-Repairing and Anti-Wrinkle cream, $130, by Rilastil at C.O. Bigelow Apothecary, 414 Sixth Ave., rilastilusa.com

“This velvet loafer, which was designed in honor of the king of Spain, is Arfangoʼs top-selling model because it can be worn with black-tie attire or with a pair of jeans.” Juan Carlos loafer, $567, by Arfango at Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave., albertomoretti.com

“I designed the sexiest pumps, called Jacquelina, in my spring collection with a curve that makes the feet look as alluring as possible.

I even made a pair to test on myself!” Heels, $650, by Alberto Moretti at Barneys New York

“My wife got me this watch as a wedding present. She knows I love rose gold.” Menʼs Nautilus, $43,400,

by Patek Philippe at Tiffany & Co., 727 Fifth Ave., patek.com

IN HIS SHOES Alberto Moretti, artistic director of storied footwear brand Arfango and the creative vision behind an eponymous shoe collection, shares the products that add style to his life.

“Luca Rubinacci, one of the best tailors in Italy, makes suits that are traditional but modern at the same time.” Bespoke handmade double-breasted silk shantung two-piece suit, $5,000, by Luca Rubinacci, special order only at london@marianorubinacci.com

“I like the cool, modern design of these sunglasses by my friend Lapo Elkann.” Sunglasses, $177, at Italia Independent, 85 Mercer St., italiaindependent.com

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“Tennis ace Novak Djokovicʼs book is a great inspiration for a healthy and sporty lifestyle.

He gives amazing tips on how to make the body perform at its highest levels.” Serve to Win, $25, by Novak Djokovic at Barnes & Noble, novakdjokovic.com

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DOUBLE THE FUN Carly Cushnie (left) and Michelle Ochsʼ eclectic, sexy design sensibility extends to what they're coveting this season.

“This Pamela Love necklace in yellow gold and sapphires is just stunning.” Moon Phase collar in 18K gold, $18,800, by Pamela Love at Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave., pamelalovenyc.com

“We almost always choose heels over flats, but these low wedges are ideal for running around on hot days.”

Platforms, $795, by Christian Louboutin at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave., christianlouboutin.com

“Weʼre loving rose gold in everything at the moment, and these aviators from Linda Farrow are perfection.”

Sunglasses, $1,280, at Linda Farrow, lindafarrow.com “We canʼt wait to be glued to this on a beach.”

The Husbandʼs Secret, $26, by Liane Moriarty at Barnes & Noble, lianemoriarty.com.au

“The soft pink on this jumpsuit looks gorgeous on sun-kissed skin, and the beaded bustier and cutouts scream sultry summer soiree.”

Jumpsuit, $2,150,

by Cushnie et Ochs at net-a-porter.com

“This lotion shapes, hydrates and gives you that gorgeous glow. Need we say more?” Supermodel Body Slimmer Shimmer, $65, by Charlotte Tilbury at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave., charlottetilbury.com

TWO TO TANGO CARLY CUSHNIE AND MICHELLE OCHS, THE STYLISH DUO BEHIND CULT FAVORITE FASHION BRAND CUSHNIE ET OCHS, DIVULGE THE MUST-HAVES THAT KEEP THEM LOOKING PRIM AND POSH FOR SUMMER.

“The large gold zip detail gives this sleek bag a striking edge without being over the top.” Alix grained leather flap clutch, $1,990, at Tom Ford, 845 Madison Ave., tomford.com

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“We love this LBD from our spring collection. The flirty fringe and stretchy knit make it the perfect dress for hot summer nights.”

Dress, $1,295, by Cushnie et Ochs at Bergdorf Goodman

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ACCESSORIES

IN GOOD FORM FOR THIS MONTH’S OPENING OF THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART’S NEW HOME IN NYC’S MEATPACKING DISTRICT, ITALIAN FASHION HOUSE MAX MAR A PARTNERED WITH THE RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP—THE RENOWNED ARCHITECTURE FIRM BEHIND THE MUSEUM’S FRESH LOOK— TO DESIGN A HANDBAG WORTHY OF THE OCCASION.

By Ayesha Khan

GRAND VISION From top: Tim Schenckʼs photograph of the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, “View From Hudson River Park,” August 2014; Maria Giulia Maramotti is Max Maraʼs U.S. director of retail and the granddaughter of the brandʼs founder.

lot. Not only should both be able to sustain heavy loads without compromising aesthetics, but they must also be constructed with materials and techniques capable of withstanding the effects of time and the elements. In fact, it is this architectural philosophy that defines Max Mara’s unmistakable aesthetic. “Coats are the nearest thing to architecture in clothing terms,” explains Ian Griffiths, Max Mara’s creative director, alluding to the brand’s origins as a luxury coatmaker. “A coat is like a house for the street, and its design involves considerations of practicality, comfort, protection and prestige.

The Whitney bag is no different.”

The Max Mara Whitney bag, designed in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, is available in three colors and sizes and is flawless by all accounts. Each bag features a supple calfskin shell that echoes the ribbed skin of the museum, while its hardware directly references the stanchions that secure the building’s tension cables.

“The design is simple and pure but very detailed,” says Elisabetta Trezzani, a partner in the Renzo Pia no Bu i ld i n g Work shop.

Ultimately, “it representstwo brands dedicated to Italian craft, design and technology,” says Griffiths.

Every bit as strong as its architectural DNA is Max Mara’s link to contemporary art, again reinforcing its ties to the Whitney.

Achille Maramotti, the brand’s founding father, was so devoted to 52 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

art that he curated a contemporary art collection showcasing the most relevant midcentury Italian art movements. Over the past 30 years, this collection has grown to hundreds of works, all showcased at Max Mara’s Reggio Emilia headquarters. “Growing up, we never thought to distinguish art from other aspects of life— everything was viewed through an aesthetic lens,” reca lls Maria Giulia Maramotti, Achille’s granddaughter and the brand’s U.S. director of retail. “We have been committed to c u lt i v at i n g a nd supporting contemporary art for decades, and to see it culminating at the Whitney through such a major global footprint is extraordinary.” From $1,150, Max Mara stores; limited-edition collection of 250 bags, branded with a commemorative stamp, also available in stores and at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

FINE DESIGN From top: Max Mara Whitney bag design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, $1,150; Nevis cashmere wrap coat, $4,990, Franz wool double-breasted blazer, $1,190, and Kren wide-leg long suiting pant, $645, all at Max Mara.

THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PHOTO BY TIM SCHENCK

What do a handbag and a building have in common? The answer, as the dual design team of Max Mara and Renzo Piano Building Workshop (tasked with creating the commemorative W hitney bag) would soon find out, is a

[STYLE] BE AUT Y

SUN-KISSED GIVE YOUR SKIN AN ALLURING GOLDEN GLOW WITH INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS IN SUMMER’S R ADIANT SHADES.

By Beth Weitzman

BRONZE BEAUTY Lightweight and silky, Tom Fordʼs new bronzing powder instantly makes any complexion appear kissed by the sun. Available in large and travel-friendly compacts in ivory and gold lacquer.

0.75 oz. for $95, 0.29 oz. for $77, Saks Fifth Avenue

SHADES OF ADVENTURE Add couture-worthy eyelids to your look with Gucci Cosmeticsʼ new Magnetic Color Shadow Mono in Moonstone, a sultry hue that also glows in the brandʼs spring/ summer 2015 ready-to-wear collection. $37, Gucci New York Fifth Avenue and gucci.com

SUN SHADES Light up the room by wearing Michael Korsʼ new Hydrating Bronze gel cream in Permanent Vacation and Sun Chaser (shown here) on your face, décolleté or anywhere else youʼd like. The pearly gel cream is designed for all-over use and can be worn alone or underneath foundation for long-lasting luminosity. $35, select Macyʼs stores and macys.com

PALETTE PLEASER The art of beauty this spring comes from Make Up For Ever, which packages the seasonʼs neutral hues and gleaming metallics in its cosmetic collectible Artist Palette Vol. 1-Nudes You Need (shown here) and bright colors in Artist Palette Vol. 2-Colors You Crave. Each features nine complementary shades of the brandʼs Artist Shadow gel-powder formula and step-by-step how-tos. $42, Sephora

GLIMMER EFFECT With a wink to innovation, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté presents Full Metal Shadow, a game-changing collection of 10 liquid eye shadows, including Nº7 Aquatic Copper (shown here). At 16 hours of wear, these ultraglossy metallics still shine.

The shimmering shades glide on gorgeously with a patented two-in-one brush applicator— the large, flat side is for full eyelid coverage, the pointed tip side for a shiny graphic effect or application of eyeliner. $30, Neiman Marcus

HINT OF GLIMMER Enriched with skin-nourishing emollient oils, Estée Lauderʼs sensual Bronze Goddess shimmer body oil is effortlessly lightweight and scented with coconut milk, sandalwood, Sicilian bergamot, jasmine, tiare and orange flower buds—a shining addition to the coveted Bronze Goddess Fragrance Collection.

1.7 fl. oz. for $40, Estée Lauder counters

TWO-TIMER Stripes of face powder in two harmonious shades of beige comprise Chanelʼs new Healthy Glow Multi-Colour Marinière Nº02, a complexion perfecter and broad-spectrum SPF sunscreen in one chic case.

Applied separately or together, the lighter tone enhances radiance and the deeper tone emphasizes contrast, while white rose and cotton flower plant cells soothe and protect. $65, Chanel counters

BRIGHT EYES Be bold with Marc Jacobs Beautyʼs new Highliner gel eye crayon in Sunset.

Formulated for extreme wear, the waterproof liner glides on smoothly, creating flawless pops of color. A built-in sharpener allows for precision application. $25, Sephora and select Marc Jacobs stores

SHINE ON Spray and glow with Givenchyʼs new Brume Bonne Mine limited-edition powder spray, a must-have mist of coconut oil extract, silicone elastomer and transparent silica microspheres to illuminate your face, plus shimmery pigments to allow natural radiance to shine through. $49, Sephora and Barneys New York

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GOLDEN GIRL Flaunt a trophy tan with AERINʼs luxurious new Gradual Tan for Face and Body, a nourishing formula that moisturizes and smoothes skin, supplies a summery floral scent and spreads year-round sunshine from hairline to pedicure. Subtle, sweet and smashing. $65, Saks Fifth Avenue

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BROOD

“These place mats make a table fun; they have personality.

It’s like fashion for a table.”

—LISA PERRY, DESIGNER

EAT YOUR WORDS

Lisa Perry’s brightly colored place mats will have kids running to the table for mealtimes. Word place mats, $140 for four, solid reversible place mats (shown beneath word place mats), $100 for four, Lisa Perry, 988 Madison Ave., lisaperrystyle.com

[BROOD] NEWS

Summer Breaks If you’re staying in NYC for the summer, these daytrips provide thrilling getaways for the entire family. –Vanessa Karalis

1.

The Bronx Zoo

Swap the city for a safari: Ride a camel and explore the butterfly garden and all 265 acres of wildlife. Don’t want the fun to end?

A lucky few can stay after-hours for an overnight safari experience. Tickets $34 for adults, $24 for children, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, bronxzoo.com

2.

Luna Park

This amusement center offers loads of activities—rides, games, dining and shops—for your entire brood. Rides are marked from mild to extreme, and favorites like the 88-year-old Coney Island Cyclone and the Thunderbolt will satisfy any thrill-seeker. Four-hour pass, $35, 1000 Surf Ave., Brooklyn, lunaparknyc.com

3.

THE LIONʼS SHARE Tawny Scrawny Lion bedding charms with a favorite childrenʼs character. Shown here, quilt, $199; duvet cover, $79; pillow sham, $32; sheet set, $69; throw pillow, $39; all at landofnod.com.

Governors Island

A GOLDEN PAIRING HIP MEETS CLASSIC IN THE LAND OF NOD’S FIRST-EVER COLLABOR ATION, WITH LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS. –Robyn Moreno It’s a match made in kiddie design heaven. The Land of Nod, our fave children’s home decor store—which stocks ubercool Norse eco cribs and vintage-inspired camper playtents—has partnered with the beloved children’s Little Golden Books to create Little Golden Books for Nod, a whimsical bedding and bath collection featuring cherished characters from the tales The Shy Little Kitten and Tawny Scrawny Lion. The 25-piece collection includes a bright patchwork quilt with kitty cutouts, playful Tawny Scrawny Lion pillows and cozy vintage-wash jersey sheets. The cuteness extends into wall art and rugs too. Bedding comes in crib, toddler and kid sizes, but unfortunately not in adult size—yet. “We’re thrilled with the results and can’t wait for parents to be able to share their favorite memories of these characters with their own children,” says Michelle Kohanzo, the store’s managing director. Look for other treasured Little Golden Books characters like The Poky Little Puppy, The Saggy Baggy Elephant and Tootle the train in special bedtime gift sets available beginning in September. landofnod.com

A historic military base turned public park, this hidden NYC gem, reopening for summer May 23, is nestled less than a thousand yards from Lower Manhattan. Thanks to last year’s 30-acre addition, parkgoers can lounge, swing and climb in Hammock Grove; wander the Play Lawn; play a round of mini-golf sponsored by Figment New York; and nosh from an array of food trucks, all while taking in a stunning view of the NYC cityscape. govisland.com

UP IN THE AIR Take a spin on any of Luna Parkʼs 26 rides, like the Luna 360, shown here.

Peanuts Gallery The Cambridge Satchel Company has launched a

COMIC APPEAL A dog collar ($50) and 11-inch satchel ($225) from the Cambridge Satchel Companyʼs Peanuts Collection feature nostalgic childhood touches.

new line of bags this spring featuring the Peanuts comic strip characters. Seems the satchel founder, Julie Deane, is slightly obsessed with Lucy, Linus and the gang and ingeniously worked them into a gorgeous line of satchels (from the best-selling “mini” through the popular 13-inch bag), large pouches and even dog collars featuring iconic touches like the Charlie Brown chevron and Woodstock riding the company’s recognizable bicycle logo. And in the spirit of school days, inside your bag is a place to write your name and address should (good grief!) your bag get lost. A portion of sales will be donated to the Animal Health Trust, a U.K. veterinary charity. cambridgesatchel.com –RM 58 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

[BROOD] ESSAY

“A” FOR EFFORT Is your young one heading off to kindergarten this fall? Tovah Klein, director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development (3009 Broadway, toddlers.barnard.edu) and author of How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2 to 5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success ($16, Touchstone), explains the best ways to prep them this summer for the shift to school.

Summer is finally here after a long winter— one which seemed especially long to young children who need to run, play, move, climb and experiment. Being outdoors is a must for healthy development.

Summer is a time we move into new modes: calm, relaxation, looser schedules. It sounds delightful, from an adult point of view—but that isn’t true for toddlers. Why not? Whether the warm season, for you, means going away, working less, finishing school or simply being more laid-back, moving into summer is a transition.

Transitions mean change, and change is difficult. And for toddlers who have no sense of time, transitions are particularly tough.

Little ones live solely in the here-and-now, even as they approach kindergarten age.

Routines provide comfort to toddlers. A regular schedule and repeated rituals throughout a day feel safe. These let youngsters know what comes next; they’re predictable. Conversely, looking ahead is

nearly impossible for a young child.

So when it comes to preparing your child for school, keep in mind that in early summer, fall—and the beginning of the school year— is an eternity away to them. At this point, there’s no need to talk about what will happen in what is, to them, the distant future; it only causes anxiety. Instead, it’s best to prepare your child for school through everyday interactions. Here’s how: • Maintain daily routines such as getting dressed, meals, bedtime, going to the beach. Even in the lazy days of summer, keep a schedule: meals, nap- and bedtime at regular times. When my boys were little, I always did a morning activity (a class or going to the beach), lunch and a nap, then an afternoon activity (playing outside or at the playground). This structure helps your child feel organized. They learn to follow routines, which prepares them for school.

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routines. Hold her shirt and she can put her arm through; allow your child to eat independently, even if slow and messy; let him hold his own toothbrush while you use another one. They can take their own plate to the sink.

These steps toward independence prepare them for school and to feel increasingly competent.

• Be sure your child has practice with separation. They need to feel secure that others can take care of them in your absence.

Don’t ever sneak out at home; build their trust by letting them know when you leave and when you will be back—i.e., tell them, “I’ll see you after your nap.”

And then, as summer winds down and fall approaches, focus on the transition back home after vacation. Give your family time to readjust, including earlier bedtimes. Buy your toddler a fun new backpack to signify school.

And remember this: Just because your little one is starting school does not mean he or she is all grown up. Your toddler is still your baby and will want to be reminded of that.

PHOTO BY CAROLINE PETTERS

SUNNY-DAY SANITY SAVERS Summertime transitions can be stressful for tots— and moms. Tovah Klein, seen here at Barnard College, offers tips for smoothing the way.

The high school students who artist and educator Katharine Gin works with have bright minds and creative spirits. But many of them don’t have exposure to the cultural and artistic experiences that Gin knows can help transform their lives.

So she has been working with Silicon Valley Community Foundation to help make those transformations real.

Now Gin helps hundreds of students a year explore art, theater, music and more.

Gin realized her dream of helping kids by bringing them closer to their own artistic dreams.

From helping those in need to encouraging better science and technology education for students, SVCF’s donors – including Katharine Gin – believe in a world of possibilities. In 2014 our donors gave $456 million nationally, making us the largest community foundation grantmaker. They also awarded nearly $18 million to charitable organizations internationally. Whatever your philanthropic dreams, Silicon Valley Community Foundation can help bring them to life.

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DESIGN

“We spent three years reflecting on how we could create a beautiful and strong space for Baccarat, to bring its first hotel to life. The biggest challenge was bringing the Baccarat spirit to New York without being ‘too French’ or boring. We wanted to combine the French culture with the energy of New York and create a unique art de vivre in this vibrant city. Voilà, a welcomed challenge, completely unprecedented for us.”

–DOROTHÉE BOISSIER OF GILLES & BOISSIER, INTERIOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS OF THE BACCARAT HOTEL

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Paris-based design firm Gilles & Boissier created almost every piece of furniture for the salon-style public spaces of the new Baccarat Hotel & Residences—the French fine crystal brand’s first foray into luxury hotels—weaving artisanal Baccarat crystal elements throughout.

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DESIGNER PICKS

“The relaxing perfume of this candle will help you drop your shoulders and dream of long summer afternoons.”

Eau de New York scented candle, $98, at Bond No. 9, 9 Bond St., bondno9.com

“This print channels the first plunge into your pool on Memorial Day. Are you counting the days?” Water Bubbles series, price upon request, by Eric Striffler Photography at Mecox Gardens, 962 Lexington Ave., mecox.com

“A glance at this pillow will remind you of all the graphic beach tunics youʼll be living in come summer.” Ivy block-print pillow, from $350, at Madeline Weinrib, 888 Broadway, madelineweinrib.com

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“This boho-chic bracelet transports you to Ditch Plains Beach as you watch the surfers come in.” Beaded crystal embellished cuff, $95, at Calypso St. Barth, 900 Madison Ave., calypsostbarth.com

“Cozy up until it warms up, picturing yourself at beach bonfires bundled in this lush cashmere throw.” Cashmere throw with tassels, $475, at Ankasa, 1200 Madison Ave., ankasa.com

“Whether you're beachcombing or couch surfing, this urchin-textured fixture will light up your life.” Culloden pebbled table lamp, $515, by AERIN for Visual Comfort at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave., bergdorfgoodman.com

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[DESIGN] NEWS

DESIGN OF THE TIMES NYCxDesign (nycxdesign.com), which celebrates the city’s vibrant design community through more than 350 citywide events across 17 disciplines, descends upon New York for the third year this month. We went straight to the tastemakers at six of the largest events for their most anticipated showings. –Sarah Newell BKLYN Designs

May 8-10, Brooklyn Expo Center, 72 Noble St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, bklyndesigns.com “Brooklyn is known for its wood craftsmen, but I’m excited to see people doing new things with textiles and accessories, like Bolé Road Textiles, a new company by interior designer Hana Getachew. All pieces are handwoven in Ethiopia, then sewn into pillows, napkins and table runners in Brooklyn. Bronsen, a new studio based in Williamsburg, will also debut their fi rst product line, Project Safari, with a collection of fi ve ceramic animal busts. And Urban Chandy, lighting that fits a niche between minimal/industrial and super high-end, is introducing a new line of Edison-style LED bulbs and reclaimed industrial light fi xtures.”

–Christopher Coleman, designer, shop owner and adviser to BKLYN Designs

LET THERE BE LIGHT From left: Designer Christopher Coleman; a new line of Edison-style LED bulbs from Urban Chandy at BKLYN Designs.

NYC’S MOST WANTED From top: Pieces like this oak and stainless steel dresser, part of a collaboration between Design Within Reach and designers Jens Risom and Chris Hardy, will be on display at WantedDesign; co-founders Odile Hainaut (left) and Claire Pijoulat.

WantedDesign

May 9-19, Industry City, 274 36th St., Sunset Park, Brooklyn, wanteddesignnyc.com “We’re looking forward to our opening night and fifth anniversary celebration. Along with our new American Design Honors program, our representation of American-based manufacturers and designers is very strong, including Token and Design Within Reach’s new collection with Jens Risom and Chris Hardy. It’s also great to work together with BKLYN Designs to make Brooklyn a not-to-miss destination during NYCxDesign. The Brooklyn design scene is so vibrant, talented and ever-growing, and we’re excited to be part of it.” –Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat, co-founders, WantedDesign 66 M ANH ATTAN M AY 2015

International Contemporary Furniture Fair

May 16-19, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 W. 34th St., icff.com

“I’m looking forward to seeing Fiera Milano, a trade fair from Milan, back at ICFF. It allows the general public the opportunity to experience more European companies INSIDE TRACK Industrial designer if they can’t make it to Nolen Niu is a Europe. Bernhardt graduate of IFCC Design, an innovator Studio, a juried scholarship program in furniture design and and competition for production, always has young designers to an exceptional, galleryshowcase work to manufacturers, like presentation focused retailers and on its latest products. And the media. this year marks the 10th anniversary of ICFF Studio, which showcases up-andcoming designers from around the world, giving them a platform to expose their work to the masses.”

–Nolen Niu, designer, television personality and ICFF Studio alum

[ART & CULTURE] NEWS

AT FIRST SIGHT Jill Singer (left) and Monica Khemsurov co-founded Sight Unseen, an editorial and curatorial consultancy firm that also produces Sight Unseen Offsite, in 2009.

Sight Unseen Offsite

May 15-18, Hudson Mercantile, 500 W. 36th St., offsite.sightunseen.com

“Katie Stout! She’s had a big year—she recently received the top prize on Ellen’s Design Challenge, an HGTV reality show.

She returns this year with an immersive, Instagram-ready installation featuring custom-designed rugs produced by The Rug Company. We also commissioned Brooklyn design trio The Principals, who specialize in responsive architectural installations, to createan interactive space called the Dynamic Sanctuary, which promises to soothe even the most jangled design-week nerves.”

–Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer, co-founders, Sight Unseen Offsite

COLLECTIVE CALL From top: The “Frissons Doré” coffee table by Hubert le Gall, made from mirror-polished bronze, varnish, steel ball bearings and magnets, will be part of Twenty First Gallery’s showing at Collective Design; interior designer Jamie Drake.

Collective Design

May 13-17, Skylight Clarkson Square, 550 Washington St., collectivedesignfair.com “One of the highlights for me is the Collective Design Fair, which showcases fantastic 20th and 21st century collectibles and contemporary, artisan-made decorative arts. My favorite dealers include Twenty First Gallery, which presents the most innovative and often provocative contemporary French design; Kinder Modern’s vintage and contemporary children’s furnishings; and J. Lohmann Gallery’s sensuous ceramic and glass. I relish seeing new work from Erwan Boulloud at Twenty First Gallery. He creates the most seductive metal and stone cabinets. But the delight of the fair is discovering new pieces and new visionary artisans.”

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SHOWING THE ROPES From top: “Untitled (Purple)” by Françoise Grossen will be part of Blum and Poe’s presentation at Frieze New York; designer and curator Rafael de Cárdenas.

Frieze New York

May 14-17, Randall’s Island Park, friezenewyork.com

“Carolee Schneemann is one of my heroes.

She’s legendary for her challenging performances, so I’m excited to see her presentation with Hales Gallery in the new Spotlight section [dedicated to solo artist presentations of work made in the 20th century] at Frieze. I’m also looking forward to seeing solo presentations for Rasheed Araeen, Natalia LL, Antonia Dias, Walter Pfeiffer and Than Hussein Clark. Blum and Poe consistently show great work and are a new addition to Frieze New York, so their booth will be one not to miss. I’m also really looking forward to Samara Golden’s commissioned project this year. She’s building a secret room underneath the tent that will only be visible from the outside.”

–Rafael de Cárdenas, designer and curator of Rafael de Cárdenas: Through Thick and Thin with Paddle8 at Frieze New York

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RE AL ESTATE

WINDOWS TO THE WORLD Inside Unit 4 of 88 Franklin St., originally a Tribeca sewing factory, you’ll find original wood beams and brick walls alongside custom-milled wood floors— and no doorman.

CLOSING THE DOOR ON THE DOORMAN NO LONGER A NECESSITY FOR TONY MANHATTANITES, THE RESIDENTIAL DOORMAN COULD BE GOING THE WAY OF LIMOUSINES AND FULL-TIME DRIVERS —SHUTTERED AWAY INTO PASSÉ NOSTALGIA. OUR REAL ESTATE EXPERT, SHIR A LEVINE, EXPLORES WHY THE AMENITY MAY BE LOSING ITS CACHET WITH THE NEW GUARD OF PROPERTY BUYERS.

Once upon a time, living in a Manhattan building with a doorman meant you (or your parents or grandparents) had made it. He knew your children’s birthdays, he door-delivered your newspaper and received your packages and dry cleaning, and sometimes he even got your coffee. But that status symbol is becoming one of yesteryear. Today’s new high-rolling homeowners don’t necessarily need the man in uniform to qualify their luxe residential status—especially when doorman buildings easily go for 65 percent more per square foot than in nondoorman digs, according to CityReality data published in the Wall Street Journal.

“Buyers today are more concerned about the inside of their apartment, where they live and spend time, rather than the shared amenities a building communally offers,” says Douglas Elliman’s Frances Katzen (elliman.com).

“People would much rather spend $9,000 on a La Cornue Fé stove than drop the extra $50,000 per person to pay for a doorman who’s all up in their business.”

New-moneyed and international buyers now dominate Manhattan’s purchasing market, and for them, privacy is priceless. “I don’t find the sense of community authentic when I’m paying someone to say good morning to me—it’s antiquated, and it doesn’t make me feel important,” says Angela Gilltrap, author of Sunshine on Sugar Hill and a homeowner in Harlem’s ritzy Sugar Hill neighborhood. “I’d much rather have a property manager to take care of the amenities and apartment emergencies.”

The doorman no longer defines luxury living, especially in lower Manhattan, where smaller boutique buildings out-dazzle the white tower, turnkey living that’s still popular uptown. continued…

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Above: 161 HUDSON STREET, #5B Price $4,950,000 Located in one of Downtown Manhattan’s most sought-after CONDOS, a prime pre-war property in North West Tribeca, this sprawling 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom CORNER loft is filled with sunlight and expansive city views throughout.

Left: 151 WEST 17TH STREET, #4H Price $3,278,000 This sunny and spacious 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom loft is set in one of Chelsea’s most desirable luxury condominium buildings, on a serene tree-lined block with all the best of Downtown Manhattan living steps away.

Spanning 1,680 square feet, the bright and airy abode features dual exposures to the south and east, with an abundance of natural light streaming in through oversized windows, complementing the beautiful hardwood floors.

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Show & Tell

We ask NYC’s top real estate brokers to show us their hottest apartment and tell us about the neighborhood surrounding it. –Zachary Wilson The Agent

Wolf Jakubowski, broker, Brown Harris Stevens, bhsusa.com

The Property

95 Charles St., Unit 1, in the West Village.

Four floors (three and a basement), groundlevel boutique condo building, 6,500 square feet, five bedrooms, six bathrooms, basement media room, 1,400-square-foot private back garden, $16.25 million. “The highlights are the width of the apartment—38 feet across—and the duplex double-height ceilings.”

LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE From top: Featuring 17-foot ceilings, multiple skylights and 30,000 square feet of living space, 144 Duane St. is one of the grandest examples of doorman-free living in NYC; exposed brick is a common feature of converted downtown homes like 144 Duane.

Outdoor Living

The garden houses two barbecues (one gas and one charcoal) and a full kitchen, and it’s planted with river birch and grass. “It’s very hard to find a real private lawn in New York.”

Treasure Cove

“On the basement level, a media room features three TVs, a drop-down movie screen, seating for 75, a full-size wet bar and a wine cellar.

Sports nuts can be watching three different games while the kids are watching a movie.”

Green Acres

…continued For a little uptown-versusdowntown, doorman-versus-no-doorman comparison shopping, take a look at 230 W. 56th St., Apt. 69A, listed by Bonnie Goldner of Keller Williams (kwnyc.com) for $9 million.

It’s a 2,292-square-foot, three-bedroom newconstruction glamour pad that rocks expansive park views while also delivering the finest in state-of-the-art uptown living, from an eat-in kitchen and walk-in closets to marble baths and a rooftop terrace. Also included are communal white-glove services, like a 24-hour doorman and concierge, parking, residents’ lounge, business center, plus a fancy-pants health club.

Meanwhile, downtown there’s Unit 4 of 88 Franklin St., a 4,500-square-foot Tribeca loft that was initially a sewing factory built in 1880 and is now going for $8 million— without a doorman. Listed by Daniel Hedaya of Platinum Properties (platinumpropertiesnyc.com), the pad features custom-milled hickory flooring and retains its original wood beams and brick walls while juxtaposing such relics with a fully integrated A/V system with speakers in every room, a chef’s kitchen replete with imported Italian blue pearl granite countertops, custommilled exotic Liptus wood cabinets, Wolff and Miele appliances and a bespoke Bastille Metal Works zinc hood. No communal amenities,

sure, but the buyer gets almost twice the square footage—and for a million less.

But the granddaddy of DIY, openthe-door-yourself properties is the $43 million 144 Duane St., sold by Leonard Steinberg with Douglas Elliman at the time. The whopping 30,000-square-foot loft mansion was first built in 1862 and later gut-renovated to dazzle with its staggering 17-foot, multi-skylit ceilings. Currently in place is a penthouse that commandeers the fourth through sixth floors and clocks in at 11,000 square feet. An additional 2,775 square feet is dedicated to a landscaped roof deck and terrace; and in the basement, 2,650 square feet house a private gym and half basketball court. And if you wouldn’t mind the idea of seeing familiar faces, floors two and three are currently equipped as 4,000-square-foot rentals, with a ground floor and half-basement retail space also ready to go for full condo conversion.

After all, who needs to be greeted upon every entry and exit when we can announce our arrival on social media and receive the necessary “likes” one might need to nourish the ego? A private keyed elevator and security system do just fine. M 72 M ANH AT TAN M AY 2015

“The area has many small, beautiful, uncrowded parks, like Christopher Park on Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street, as well as the waterfront, which is great for biking and for strolling along Hudson River Park.”

Back Through Time

“Hamilton’s Soda Fountain (51 Bank St., hamiltonsoda.com), a takeoff of the ’50s bee-bopper diners, really takes you back, but with a contemporary twist.

Employees Only (510 Hudson St., employeesonlynyc.com) is a nice period bar known for its cocktails, but I like it for the 1930s, pre-WWII feel and the great lighting.”

Page Turners

“Left Bank Books (17 Eighth Ave., leftbankbooksny.com) has signed first editions and rare books, and there’s always something new. Bookmarc (400 Bleeker St., marcjacobs.com), Marc Jacobs’ shop, has lots of art and architectural books.”

GREEN WITH ENVY The spacious backyard at 95 Charles St. offers owners space, privacy and a real lawn.

Duplex penthouses now available 2,800+ Sq. Ft. from $5,700,000 A coveted neighborhood.

An alluring life.

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DINING BY DESIGN GALA Midtown West The Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA) hosted their annual Dining

by Design Gala dinner at Pier 92 in New York. Guests were awed by the table installations while sipping on specialty cocktails, followed by an elegant seated VIP dinner accompanied by dancing and a silent auction.

Photography by Cutty McGill

Jeremy Penn, Marc Blackwell and Prez Zawadzki

Adam and Brittany Branscum

Lisa Frantz and Lydia Marks

LOVE HEALS GALA Midtown East Love Heals, the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education, held its 2015 Gala at the Four Seasons Restaurant. The event honored Hal Rubenstein, Eric Villency, and Molly and Eliza Howard for their continued support of the organization, and the evening featured celebrity appearances, cocktails and dinner, and a lively program. The Gala raised over $450,000 for Love Heals, which supports the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued efforts to expand HIV/AIDS education to young people in New York.

Photography by Will Ragozzino and Samantha Deitch

Carole Radziwill

Eric Villency, Caroline Villency and Bronson Van Wyck

Paul Arnhold, Indre Rockefeller and Wes Gordon

Victoria D. Andretta and Rachel Esman

Dr. Matt Lederman, Dr. Beth McAvey and Dr. Daniel Stein

Red-Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

RMA NY GRAND OPENING Midtown The Reproductive Medicine Associates (RMA) of New York celebrated the opening of their new location, 200 West 57th Street. Partners of the practice in attendance included Dr. Lawrence Grunfeld, Dr. Benjamin Sandler, Dr. Tanmoy Mukherjee and Dr. Alan B. Copperman, who spoke at the event and initiated the celebatory ribbon cutting ceremony for the new space.

Photography by Andrew Werner

ART

“TWO NUDES IN A FOREST” COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

& CULTURE

“Frida Kahlo’s curiosity about nature is evident in her use of plants and animals in her painting, which she combined in imaginative ways to express cultural and emotional sensations. While Kahlo’s works are sometimes inspired by her life, they’re rarely, if ever, literal expressions of her experience.

She harnessed the natural world to move beyond or, at the very least, intensify the personal and the biographical.”

–ADRIANA ZAVALA, GUEST CURATOR, THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

CALL OF NATURE

Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life at The New York Botanical Garden examines the enigmatic artist’s love of nature. The museum reproduced the lush gardens at La Casa Azul, Kahlo’s lifelong home and studio in Mexico City, planting native Mexican cacti and tropical foliage to showcase the natural world that served as the painter’s inspiration. The exhibit, the first to focus on her botanical interest, includes 14 paintings and drawings portraying plants and other organic materials as ideological symbols that explored themes like national identity and fertility. Although under debate, “Two Nudes in a Forest,” seen here, is widely considered a celebration of Kahlo’s candid bisexuality. May 16-Nov. 1, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, nybg.org

[ART & CULTURE] NEWS

SINK OR SWIM From top: Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Still #45,” which is part of the Whitney’s America Is Hard to See exhibit; the museum’s glass facade.

NEW DAY AT THE MUSEUM Bidding adieu to its Upper East Side location after nearly five decades for new Renzo Pianodesigned digs in the Meatpacking District, the just-reopened Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St., whitney.org) is off to a much-discussed debut that’s garnering both praise and controversy. Assistant Curator Jane Panetta discusses the museum’s stance on finding itself as the topic of art-world conversation and takes us inside its new home. –Sahar Khan The design of the new building is said to affect the way visitors experience exhibits. How? We have

four major floors that are different sizes, different shapes, have different ceiling heights—we can create varied experiences of art, but under a single roof.

Also, the site is incredible. The eighth-floor gallery is skylit, and both ends of the fifth-floor gallery have windows—one facing the river and the other facing the city. That view is unique for a museum to have; it connects you to the surrounding neighborhood.

Tell us about the museum’s opening exhibition, America Is Hard to See. It’s drawn entirely from our

collection, and it spans 115 years—so the breadth of the collection itself. We took a comprehensive look and pulled out certain themes to focus on.

Eventually we whittled the checklist down to more than 600 works across all media.

What constitutes an American artist? That has

changed over time, but for now it doesn’t necessarily mean an artist who was born here or one who permanently immigrated here or became a citizen.

Any artist who came here for a significant amount of time, who was educated here or spent a big chunk of time here, we treat as an American artist.

Do you consider Renzo Piano, who’s done considerable work in the United States, an American artist, especially given the controversy around the Whitney hiring an Italian architect to design an American art museum? When our team

was selecting the architect for this project, they asked people what their favorite museum was, and what kept coming back was different museums Renzo had designed. I’ve never heard [director] Adam Weinberg try to claim Renzo as an American—he felt comfortable in asserting that we’d picked the best architect whom we felt was up to the challenge and who’d design the best building.

Artnet News posited that the new Whitney might herald a golden age for New York’s art institutions.

Thoughts? That’s a grandiose, sweeping claim, but

we feel strongly that this building and the accompanying exhibition and performance programs are going be a significant contribution to the cultural landscape of New York and the United States. There’s a lot going on with other institutions at this moment; that said, we’re the ones who built a new home and put our entire collection on view for the first time. When I saw the Artnet article, I said, ‘We’re up for that challenge.’

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Chef Michael Anthony—a finalist for outstanding chef in this year’s James Beard awards—has delighted diners as Gramercy Tavern’s executive chef for eight years. So NYC foodies were intrigued to learn he’d be in charge of the dining options—a revamped Untitled, plus the upstairs Studio Café for museumgoers—at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new downtown incarnation.

His menus highlight regional and seasonal ingredients with an emphasis on vegetables, cooked and plated employing a lightness that reflects the restaurant’s airy setting. “The concept of ‘transparency’ means a lot of things to different people,” Anthony says. “To the museum, it means accessibility and openness. To the architect, it clearly means the masterful use of light in that space, which is—at all times of the day and night—astounding. And to me, it means telling the story of our thoughtfully sourced food, and our attempt to cook it with care and precision so that it’s memorable and tells a story.”

To that end, Anthony expects the menus at both eateries to change frequently, in keeping with the freshest seasonal ingredients.

“Even in a bustling place filled with lots of creative people and exciting ideas under the roof of that museum, [a meal at Untitled is] a chance to step away from some of that stimulus and experience some tactile, sensory pleasure,” he says. untitledatthewhitney.com –Kathryn Maier A RIOT OF COLORS A dish of shaved asparagus with turnips and mizuna at Untitled

“UNTITLED FILM STILL #45” COURTESY OF CINDY SHERMAN AND METRO PICTURES, NEW YORK; FOOD PHOTO BY ALICE GAO

Not in Name Only

INTRODUCING

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Three days before his release from an asylum in Saint-Rémy, where he’d spent a year getting treatment for epilepsy, Vincent van Gogh completed a quartet of paintings— two of irises and two of roses—that he conceived as a series on par with his “Sunflowers” ensemble. This prolific output is on display at the Met’s Van Gogh: Irises and Roses, which shows all four pieces together for the first time. The museum will present color reconstructions of the now-faded paintings (Van Gogh used light-sensitive pigments) to illustrate the effect he intended. The opening coincides with a letter dated the same week, 125 years earlier, when Van Gogh wrote to his brother that, having ignored his work for much of the stay, he had newfound vigor to make the “last [brush]strokes” count, a claim that proved prophetic. Although the collection heralded the beginning of spring and a new life for Van Gogh, the colorful start came to an abrupt end: The paintings, which he’d left at the asylum to dry, arrived in Auvers, where he had recently settled, a month before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. May 12-Aug. 16, 1000 Fifth Ave., metmuseum.org –Sahar Khan

WITHER ON THE VINE Vincent van Gogh’s “Irises,” alongside a trio of floral counterparts, is on view at the Met’s Van Gogh: Irises and Roses.

In Small Doses

Alexander Calder, father of the mobile, modeled many of his large-scale floating structures on small-scale works. In Multum in Parvo (Latin for “much in little”), Dominique Lévy explores 30 years worth of Calder’s miniatures, one just over 1 inch high. Many, including the noted “Shoe with Split Heel,” were created in the 1940s, when developments in technology and travel started to affect the international art scene. In 1945, his friend Marcel Duchamp suggested he exhibit the small-scale works in newly liberated Paris. Calder, an avid traveler, agreed and, challenged by the USPS’ limits on parcel size, built larger, collapsible sculptures easily transported via international airmail. The exhibition space is designed by architect and Calder fan Santiago Calatrava, himself lauded for dovetailing art and engineering—his Transportation Hub at the World Trade Center is based on a “bird in flight.” Biomorphic stacked platforms with mirrored discs hold the mini-mobiles, many constructed using scraps from the artist’s other works. Doing justice to Calder’s diminutive details, Calatrava’s backdrops help the miniscule artworks showcase their monumental impact. Through June 13, 909 Madison Ave., dominique-levy.com –SK

GOOD THING, SMALL PACKAGE Alexander Calder’s “Untitled” from 1942 captures the artist’s deft touch in infusing this 13-inch-high sculpture with a sense of agile motion.

Catch ‘Em While They’re Hot These summer standout exhibits, festivals and performances are not to be missed.

–Vanessa Karalis Art Miami New York Exhibiting in NYC for the first time, this contemporary art fair melds a unique, versatile selection of works from around the globe with a focus on new and emerging talent.

May 14-17, Pier 94, 711 Twelfth Ave., artmiaminewyork.com Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 More than 40 years after Yoko Ono’s unofficial performance exhibition at MoMA comes this retrospective of about 125 objects, installations, audio recordings and films from Ono’s early career. May 17-Sept. 7, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., moma.org Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris Inspired by Rome’s famed Galleria Doria Pamphilj, this show features 40 works that trace 400 years of portraiture, including the never-before-exhibited drawings of Charles Garnier. Through June 28, The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., drawingcenter.org FringeNYC Featuring more than 200 international vendors, North America’s largest multiarts festival returns for its 19th year with a rich array of exhibitions and performances held at more than 20 venues throughout the city.

Aug. 14-30, various locations, fringenyc.org

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BURNING BRIDGES “Minotaur” by street artist Paolo Buggiani, whoʼs known for metal sculptures he sets on fire, seen on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1980

Since its inception, street art has grown from a fringe visual movement to a social phenomenon in cities around the world. New York has always been at the movement’s center, with artists like Keith Haring, Richard Hambleton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Linus Coraggio, Paolo Buggiani and Robin van Arsdol producing some of their most significant works here. Written in collaboration with many of its featured artists, including a foreword by Banksy, Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art ($40, Taschen) examines the movement through works by 150 artists across four generations of urban art, putting them in context with the social, political and economic settings in which they were created. –Zachary Wilson

Cutting It Close In his new memoir Smash Cut ($28, Harper), writer Brad Gooch details his adventures through NYC of the 1970s and ’80s, including the drugs, parties and the gay scene, as well as meeting film producer Howard Brookner, who became Gooch’s great love—and a source of despair later, during the AIDS crisis.

The intimate memoir also outlines Gooch’s run-ins with boldface New York names like William Burroughs, Madonna, Anna Wintour and, as seen in the excerpt below, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who made Gooch one of his portrait subjects. –ZW

“I showed up at noon a few days later with a garment bag. Robert and I were both pretty clueless about fashion photography. I’d brought along all the ‘formal’ clothes I had, changing into corduroys, brown shirt, thin tie, ratty, black cashmere overcoat, and a short Scottish scarf. Robert did what he knew how to do.

He produced a box full of cocaine powder, seeming like a snuff box, which he held in his fine, ivory fingers. Robert was a boy from Queens, but he channeled an aristocratic WASP manner—the side

of him that collected silver and antique furniture. This combination of contrary traits was common enough at the time, as in the Mineshaft doorman, part-time fussy fine-furniture curator and part-time faux-uniformed cop. Both those guys were drawn to uniforms and to images of controlled violence.

Robert plied me with coke until the moment when I’d finally forgotten all about the modeling pictures. Then he decided, ‘Okay, let’s go in the back.’ At that instant he either flipped a switch,

becoming a mad scientist versed in mind control, or I imagined that he did, and was too zonked to tell the difference. He set his camera, on a tripod, at crotch height.

I stood in piercing sunlight.

‘Move your index finger a quarter inch to the right,’ he’d say. In the final portrait I look like a glazed-over victim of childhood abuse, dressed for a nice restaurant, with a jagged werewolf shadow cast behind—not a photograph designed to charm a fashion market still trading in all-American innocence.”

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And You’ll Be Reading…

The staff of BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, bookcourt.com) shares their most anticipated summer reads. the deep love and mourning of any of the great novels, this is a book for the ages.”

The Argonauts

by Maggie Nelson ($23, Graywolf Press) “The Argonauts creates an entirely new lens in which to understand motherhood, sexuality and gender identity, giving you the freeing feeling you’re tapped into the mind of a more evolved human from the future.”

The Book of Aron

by Jim Shepard ($24, Knopf) “From the masterful Shepard comes the story of Dr. Janusz Korczak, a Jewish orphanage director resolved to protect as many children as he can amid the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, told through the eyes of a new charge.”

H Is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald ($26, Grove Press) “Would you ever think a book about a goshawk would bring you nearly to tears?

And yet... elegiac, lucid and filled with all

The Meursault Investigation

by Kamel Daoud ($15, Other Press) “In this highly anticipated novel, written by Algerian writer Daoud and inspired by Albert Camus’ The Stranger, we finally come to know ‘the Arab’ murdered on the beach in Camus’ seminal novel.”

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

by Vivian Gornick ($23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) “Told through narrative collage, Gornick examines ordinary moments of everyday life with NYC as the backdrop.

It’s deeply insightful, relentlessly honest and effortlessly funny.”

Voices in the Night: Stories

by Steven Millhauser ($26, Knopf) “From Pulitzer Prize winner Millhauser, another collection of wildly imaginative, slyly funny stories in which he illuminates both the absurd and the ordinary (which often overlap) through a delightfully disorienting lens of hyperrealism.”

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By Ryan Feuer

REVOLUTIONARY STAR Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (center front), known for his smart lyrics and fast rapping style, stars as Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton.

JULY 13

Imbibe more than 100 beers by 33 vendors, with all proceeds going to environmental nonprofit GrowNYC. Tickets from $85. 35-44 37th St., Long Island City, Queens, fiveborocraftbeerfest.com

Hamilton on Broadway See Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony- and Grammy-winning actor and writer of In the Heights, portray one of the country’s Founding Fathers in this musical that’s moving to Broadway from The Public Theater. Tickets from $57. Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 W. 46th St., richardrodgerstheatre.com

MAY 1-28

Mad. Sq. Eats

Chow down at this semiannual public popup market featuring some of the city’s best eats, including Momofuko Milk Bar, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Roberta’s.

Free. Broadway at 25th Street, urbanspacenyc.com

MAY 3

TD Five Boro Bike Tour

The world’s largest charitable bike ride includes more than

32,000 cyclists pumping their way through 40 traffic-free miles. Free to view. bike.nyc

MAY 4-AUG. 16 China: Through the Looking Glass at the Met

Co-chaired by Anna Wintour, Jennifer Lawrence, Yahoo!

CEO Marissa Mayer and others, the Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition—and its coinciding see-andbe-seen gala this night—juxtaposes Chinese fashion

and art through the centuries. Suggested donation $25. metmuseum.org

MAY 5

Lenny Kravitz at Webster Hall

See the 50-year-old rock icon (and NYC native) live at this one-nightonly show previewing his upcoming tour.

Tickets from $50. 125 E. 11th St., websterhall.com

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annual gala’s premiere of Peter Martin’s staging of La Sylphide.

Tickets from $1,500.

David H. Koch Theatre, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, nycballet.com

MAY 9

Spring Wine Festival

Choose the afternoon or the evening session and enjoy three hours of tastings of 200 wines from around the globe, plus a live performance from celebrated saxophonist Art Sherrod Jr. Tickets from $99. Broad Street

Ballroom, 41 Broad St., newyorkwineevents.com

MAY 12

Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Spring Ball

Sponsored by Michael Kors this year, the ball raises funds for The Society Research Grants Program, which provides funding for MSK researchers at the beginning of their careers. Tickets from $1,500. The Pierre Hotel, 2 E. 61st St., mskcc.org

MAY 16-19

The Manhattan Cocktail Classic

Kicking off with a gala May 16, the three-day festival features events from parties and pig roasts to seminars and soirees.

Gala tickets from $225.

PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS, COURTESY OF THE PUBLIC THEATER

MAY 1

Five Boro Craft Beer Fest

Locations vary, manhattancocktail classic.com

and drink from African restaurants throughout the city alongside cultural events, mixers and benefits. Various locations, nyarw.com

MAY 18

American Ballet Theatre 75th Anniversary Gala

JUNE 4

Celebrate ABT’s diamond anniversary with an exclusive performance by the company and a look back at its history through guest speakers, film excerpts and more. Tickets from $2,500. 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, abt.org

Partnership With Children Annual Spring Gala

WOMAN ON TOP Actress Sutton Foster will also star in The Wild Party, the musical story of 1920s party girl Queenie’s tawdry life (based on Joseph Moncure March’s narrative poem from 1928) July 15-18 at New York City Center.

Ronald McDonald House Gala

Now in its 23rd year, this event supports temporary housing for pediatric cancer patients and their families.

Tickets from $1,500.

301 Park Ave., rmhc.org

MAY 27, 29-30 New Taste of the Upper West Side

The annual celebration spotlights the area’s culinary scene through three events: Soiree in the Park benefiting Theodore Roosevelt Park; Comfort Classics, hosted by Adam Richman; and Best of the West, with the Food Network’s Marc Murphy and Anne Burrell. Tickets from $105. Locations vary, newtasteuws.com

MAY 28

An Act of God on Broadway

Explore existentialism and the mysteries of the Bible in this comedy revival, with four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons returning to Broadway in the role of God. Tickets from $55. Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St., anactofgod.com

MAY 31-JUNE 14

African Restaurant Week

This annual event highlights African food

In Good Graces

Actress and Broadway star (see her two Tony Awards) Sutton Foster leads the new TV Land series Younger, in which she plays a single mom attempting to revitalize her drab life by lying about her age and rejoining the workforce as a low-level assistant (aided by co-stars Debi Mazar and Hilary Duff and under the direction of Sex and the City helmsman Darren Star). We caught up with the real-life 40-year-old to chat about life on and off camera and her first love: the stage. –Frank DiLella How has your stage experience prepared you for work on TV?

In Younger, your character, Liza, is a bit of a Luddite in the modern workplace. Which gadget can’t you live without?

It’s taught me a strong work ethic—nothing’s harder than eight shows a week on Broadway. The biggest challenge in TV is the pace: Every day is a new scene, and once you finish, you move on to the next thing. That’s actually been beneficial when I’ve come back to the theater. It’s taught me to be brave and daring with my work.

There’s no time to waste in TV. You can’t be scared; you have to do it today. TV has made me a better theater performer, and vice versa.

My iPhone. When I first moved to the city years ago, I had to go to a pay phone and check my answering service to see if I got a callback.

The iPhone is a genius invention!

The show is set in NYC. What’s your favorite place in the city?

My husband and I just moved to the Upper West Side. I always wanted to live high and have a view, so we’re on the 18th floor.

It feels like the perfect place.

We have a view of the Hudson, and I can see the Empire State Building from my bed.

You’ve won two Tonys for leading actress in a musical—for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002 and Anything Goes in 2011.

What’s your career highlight?

What advice would you give a young Sutton just starting out?

Playing Violet in the musical Violet last year, and playing Reno in Anything Goes. Characterwise, they were the two greatest challenges I’ve ever had. Each is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

Be willing to learn and to listen.

When I first started out, I was a bit of a know-it-all. I’d tell myself to be a little tougher—you don’t need to seek out attention, and it’s OK to not be the center of attention.

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The gala fundraises for low-income, at-risk children in NYC to improve their social, academic and emotional lives. Tickets from $1,500. Three Sixty Degrees, 10 Desbrosses St., partnershipwithchildren.org

JUNE 5-7

Governors Ball Music Festival

Headliners include Drake, The Black Keys, Deadmau5, Lana Del Rey and Florence and The Machine. Tickets from $105. Randall’s Island Park, governorsball musicfestival.com

JUNE 7

The 69th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrate the best of Broadway at this glamorous event, which this year honors nine-time Tony winner Tommy Tune with a lifetime achievement award. Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Ave., radiocity.com

JUNE 8

Apollo Theater Spring Gala

Celebrate the iconic Harlem theater’s 81st birthday at this gala.

253 W.125th St., apollotheater.org

JUNE 12-20

Chelsea Music Festival

More than two dozen performing-, visualand culinary-arts events celebrate the culture of Finland and

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CALENDAR MAY–AUGUST 2015 gala’s inaugural year, and honors renowned rock music manager Steven Leber. Tickets from $1,500. Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, cityparksfoundation.org

DIVINE INTERVENTION Iconic performer Bette Midler brings the tour supporting her latest album, It’s the Girls!— her first studio recording since 2006—to NYC.

JUNE 28

Gay Pride March

The annual march celebrates the city’s vast and vibrant LBGT community with a parade that ends in the historic Greenwich Village. Free.

Begins at Fifth Avenue and 36th Street, nycpride.org

JUNE 30

JUNE 25-26 Bette Midler at Madison Square Garden Featuring material from her newest album, It’s the Girls!, in which she exclusively sings songs by girl groups of days past, this marks The Divine Miss M’s first major tour in a decade. Tickets from $47, VIP Meet & Greet tickets $1,250. 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, thegarden.com Hungary throughout the city. Ticket prices and locations vary. chelseamusicfestival.org

JUNE 13-14

Jazz Age Lawn Party

Break out your best Great Gatsby-inspired attire for this annual Prohibition Era bash on Governors Island, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Also Aug. 15-16. Tickets from $35. jazzagelawnparty.com

JUNE 16-JULY 7 Washington Square Music Festival

Founded in 1953, this festival features a range of free classical performances in NYC’s

famous downtown parks every Tuesday.

Free. Garibaldi Plaza, Washington Square Park, washingtonsquare musicfestival.org

parade in the country.

Free. Begins at West 21st Street and Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, coneyisland.com

JUNE 19-20, 22-23 The unusual duo sings classic tunes from their collaborative album, Cheek to Cheek.

Tickets from $60, VIP Meet & Greet tickets $1,895. radiocity.com

Comprised of four stars of the original Broadway cast of Jersey Boys, the Midtown Men return home to NYC to dazzle audiences with their renditions of classic ’60s love songs. Tickets from $40. 2124 Broadway, beacontheatre.com

JUNE 20

JUNE 22

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga at Radio City

The Midtown Men at the Beacon Theatre

Coney Island Mermaid Parade

City Parks Foundation Gala

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JULY 9-AUG. 13 Broadway in Bryant Park

On- and off-Broadway musicals bring their showstopping talent to the green. 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, bryantpark.org

JULY 25-26

NYC Poetry Festival

Enjoy the rhythmic craft of more than 200 poets against the backdrop of the lower Manhattan skyline. Free. Governors Island, newyorkcity poetryfestival.com

Shania Twain at Madison Square Garden

JULY 26-AUG. 22

The country star hits the road for the first time in 11 years on the Rock This Country tour, said to be her farewell endeavor. Tickets from $50, VIP Ultimate Experience tickets $854. thegarden.com

The monthlong event celebrates Harlem’s past, present and future through a 5k run, musical performances, film screenings and more. Ticket prices and locations vary. harlemweek.com

JULY 4

AUG. 2, 9, 16

Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular

Celebrate the birth of the nation with the retail giant’s annual display along the East River. Free. macys.com

JULY 6-AUG. 2 Lincoln Center Festival

The annual art gathering this year features opera, music, dance and theater performances by The National Ballet of China, The Cleveland Orchestra and others. Ticket prices and locations vary. lincolncenterfestival.org

Harlem Week

Summer Streets

For three consecutive Sundays enjoy nearly seven miles of trafficfree space to walk, bike and play. Free. Park Avenue and Lafayette Street between 72nd Street and the Brooklyn Bridge, nyc.gov

AUG. 31-SEPT. 13 U.S. Open Tennis Championships

The annual event serves up the world’s best tennis players. Tickets from $200. USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, usopen.org

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CHAIN REACTIONS In 2005, Coralie Charriol Paul, creative director of Swiss jewelry and leather goods line Charriol, and her husband, Dennis, were introduced to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Zana Briski, whose documentary Born Into Brothels left them both awestruck because of the film’s subject, and even more so because of its intention to raise funds to build a school for the children born into Calcutta’s red-light district. Ignited with a newfound passion for creating change through cinema, the couple founded React to Film, which brings documentaries and discussions into classrooms around the United States. On the eve of the annual fundraiser May 18 at the Payne Whitney Mansion, Coralie discusses the nonprofit’s mission and how it inspires students to take action in their communities. film has no educational value.

So we created our Media Literacy and Civic Engagement course, a semester-long elective that provides social-issue documentary films, and a curriculum around them, to schools. The documentaries we work with are powerful, engaging and inspiring—not only do students feel captivated, but they’re learning at the same time. The course is now taught at 20 middle and high schools nationally and continues to grow each month.

The films often inspire students to take action. Last fall, students at Legal Prep Academy in Chicago completed the threeweek lesson on Food Inc., then curated a food drive of healthy options at their school. The items were sent to a local church, where the students and community leaders cooked a huge dinner to serve to the community.

We also have 40 college campuses involved through our React to Film College Action Network. We recruit, train and support chapter leaders who screen these incredible documentaries twice a semester.

At one campus, after seeing the doc The Interrupters, about gang violence in Chicago, a chapter leader created a mentorship

REDEEMING FEATURES Coralie Charriol Paul (front center, wearing red shoes), seen here with the Young Friends of React to Film, a group of NYC creatives that focuses on social issues, education and film, at Fitzcarraldo in Williamsburg

day on her campus, where she coordinated with a local juvenile detention center to bus teens to her campus to play basketball with her college’s men’s basketball team.

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went from boring to thrilling, giving the feeling of a Hollywoodstyle movie. For Dennis and me, Born Into Brothels was the one that changed everything we thought we knew about documentaries. If a documentary could change our perspective, we knew it could inspire anyone.

Tickets $300, 972 Fifth Ave., reacttofilm.com

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Dennis and I first hosted a NYC premiere screening of Food Inc. in 2008, where we had this incredible Q&A discussion with Eric Schlosser, the film’s executive producer (who’s now a React to Film advisory board member). People loved the film, but they loved the discussion even more. We knew we were onto something.

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In today’s educational system, students may not get to talk about relevant topics going on in the world because their general curriculum doesn’t allow time for it. Film is rarely properly implemented in the classroom— it’s often only used when the teacher is out. We wanted to connect inspiring filmmaking to youth, making them aware of the world’s most pressing social issues and giving them an outlet to have critical discussions. We also wanted to remove the stigma that

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SETTING THE STAGE “When I was a kid I watched American movies and French movies, and both gave me the desire to be an actress. So I feel very, very lucky to work in both,” says Marion Cotillard, whose next role instead sees her onstage as Joan of Arc.

THE PASSIONS OF MARION COTILLARD The Oscar-winning actress, singer-songwriter, environmentalist and mother channels French heroine Joan of Arc in the New York Philharmonic’s season finale production.

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By Cristina Cuomo

French starlet Marion Cotillard doesn’t shy away from a challenge. Th e leading lady, who in 2007 was the fi rst actress to win an Oscar for a French-speaking role as the iconic singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, has typically taken on substantial parts in European art-house fi lms, such as Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone; the Dardennes brothers’ Two Days, One Night (for which she received an Oscar nod this year); and Macbeth, opposite Michael Fassbender. And then there are her meaty American roles in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion.

In another dramatic star-turn this summer, Cotillard, the daughter of actors Niseema Theillaud and Jean-Claude Cotillard, is taking to the stage in one of her bravest roles to date, as the title character of Joan of Arc at the Stake—for the third time (she starred in a production by the Orléans Orchestra in 2005 and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

in 2012). From June 10 to 13, the New York Philharmonic will present the U.S. premiere of Seiji Ozawa’s staged production of the dramatic oratorio by fi lm composer Arthur Honegger, which was written as a fl ashback in which Joan recalls her life in the fi nal moments before she dies. The Philharmonic’s performance is directed by French author and director Côme de Bellescize and conducted by the Philharmonic’s Music Director Alan Gilbert.

In de Bellescize’s staging, many of the characters appear as circus animals, reflecting Joan looking back on her life from a child’s perspective. The production places the orchestra in the middle of a constructed platform on which the action occurs, continuing the Philharmonic’s recent emphasis on staging operatic and theatrical works.

We spoke to Cotillard, who’s also the face of Dior, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace and a mother (to 4-year-old Marcel), about this groundbreaking role.

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“[MOTHERHOOD] HAS REINFORCED WHAT... I WANT TO BRING TO THIS WORLD, WHICH [IS] RESPECT AND HONESTY AND, OF COURSE, LOVE.” It’s going to be in French with English subtitles—and it’s quite challenging even in French. Some parts of the texts are in rhythm with the music, so each word—almost each letter— has to be in time.

We know you have such a beautiful voice from your Oscarwinning role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, and you’re very musically inclined—you played bass, keyboard and tambourine with the band Yodelice. Joan of Arc at the Stake is part oratorio and part opera. Do you do any singing?

My part is mostly speaking. I couldn’t sing opera. Joan isn’t supposed to be a good singer. I have a little song, which is like a little kid’s song. It’s a very special moment. We work with amazing singers, and I love to sing... but opera is different.

As a French woman, it must be special to be playing a heroine like Joan of Arc.

Yes, and Paul Claudel is among the great writers; I’ve read many of his plays. I feel very lucky to perform his words and his concept of Joan of Arc. I love that he doesn’t focus on what she’s best known for. She saved and reunited her country, but he doesn’t spend much time on this aspect of her life. He focuses on the very strong, deep connection she had with her world and nature, and then with God, which instigated all she did to save France.

Joan of Arc was martyred for her faith. What about that do you put into your performance?

She was a mix of monumental strength and, at the same time, hypersensitivity. She was a child; she died on the stake when she was 19. When she followed her faith by listening to what was inside her, that’s when she found her strength. It’s this strength, faith and hypersensitivity that’s in the oratorio and that I really want to give power to.

Your mother has also played Honegger’s Joan of Arc. Has that given you a deeper connection to the part?

My mother played the role in 1992; my father was the director.

When I saw it, I thought the part was so powerful, and that my mother was an amazing actress, and it was so beautiful and emotional and strong. More than 10 years later, in 2005, they asked her to reprise the role but she wasn’t available, so she suggested they call me. She knew I’d be interested, and she also knew it would be the first of many encounters for me with this work. From there, I wanted to do it again, so I reached out to theaters to produce it. They loved my energy and passion for the oratorio, but when they found out it required 200 people onstage, they realized they’d lose money.

Seven years later, one of the producers I’d approached was in Barcelona, talking with the director of the theater there about

his upcoming production of a concert version of Joan of Arc, and they called me. I said yes right away.

This will be your third time playing the part, and you’ve said this role is your greatest experience as an actress. Why?

It’s more than the role. I always work with music in my films because music is a very strong vehicle for emotion, so it’s this particular version of Joan of Arc that I love so much. The rhythm of the piece creates this role. I’m onstage and carried by the music and the choir, combining everything I love: acting and music.

What’s been your most difficult role to date?

Lady Macbeth. She was hard to live with, and she scared me. She’s a heavyweight. So many great actresses have portrayed her and did masterful work, so that was a lot of pressure. In the other roles I’ve had, as dramatic as they were, there was light. But there’s no hope or light in Lady Macbeth. It’s really total darkness. And the Shakespearean language took a lot of work too.

Is there a role you haven’t played that you’d like to?

A comedy. That would make my life easier—or maybe not!

You’ve worked with so many great directors—Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Rises and Inception; Woody Allen in Midnight in Paris; Steven Soderbergh in Contagion. Is there someone you haven’t worked with whom you’d like to?

I’d love to work with David Fincher. And I’m looking forward to working on my next film with a Frenchwoman, Nicole Garcia (who’s also an actress), in Mal de Pierres, a period romantic drama.

You’re the mother of a 4-year-old, Marcel. How has motherhood changed your view on the world and your career?

It has reinforced what I like—my connection to this world, things I don’t understand and things that I want to bring to this world, which are respect and honesty and, of course, love.

Is there something you haven’t done that you’d like to do?

I’m about to take a cooking lesson with an amazing French chef right now—so I’d love to improve my cooking!

You’ve spent a lot of time in NYC. What do you love about the city?

I love Central Park and the High Line. I love the diversity. I love the artistic spirit in New York. It’s very inspiring.

You’re turning 40 this year. How are you feeling about that?

I’m OK with it! My experience as a woman has been tumultuous.

I learn every day, and I love women, and I love being a woman.

My wiser friends—I have a friend who’s 86 and one who’s 76— they all say it’s no fun getting old, but the experience is priceless.

I want to enjoy every step of the way of this very interesting life.

And I don’t feel like I’m getting old; I feel like I’m growing. M

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Joan of Arc at the Stake is performed in French. Why French for an American audience?

A CHAMPION’S SPIRIT “It’s a war against government, and it takes strength to follow one’s faith. She really did good for her country,” says Cotillard of the title character she plays in Joan of Arc at the Stake.

Silk crepon maxi dress, $5,895, at ChloĂŠ; hemp beaded wrap necklace, $978, at Etro.

Spring’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” comes alive with floor-sweeping dresses in exotic colors and inspired embroideries.

Photography by Helena Palazzi | Styling by James Aguiar Shot on location at Nandana Villa on Grand Bahama Island

Full turban, $495, at jenniferbehr.com; polished gold and pearl cabochon clip earrings, $75, at kennethjaylane.com; pearl collar necklace, price upon request, at Sequin; mesh and suede embellished vest, $895, at Haute Hippie; pearl strand necklace (in hand), $172, at ben-amun.com.

Beauty note: Lustrous Glow foundation, $65, Luxe finishing powder, $55, Sheer Blushing powder, $49, Golden Glow bronzer, $59, and Audacious Color-Intense lipstick in Ardor, $39, all by Gucci at Saks Fifth Avenue

Lillie dress, $798, at Diane von Furstenberg; silk turban, $805, at Missoni.

Short-sleeve Temae silk organza gown with peplum, ruffled yoke and slip, $4,395, by Erdem at Barneys New York; Starburst ring (left hand), $1,400, by Lisa Eisner for Tom Ford at Tom Ford; gold and white shell pearl ring (right hand), $50, at kennethjaylane.com.

Embroidered Sea Bottom gown with tulle base and antique silver microbeads, $28,500, by Valentino, and calf leather Abyss ankle gladiator sandals with matte gold-finished metal elements, $1,245, by Valentino Garavani at Valentino

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Silk georgette deep-V embroidered dress, $15,500, at Gucci

Bassano ikat printed chiffon dress, $9,900, by Altuzarra, similar styles at Curve calf leather Abyss ankle gladiator sandals with matte gold-finished metal elements, $1,245, by Valentino Garavani at Valentino Hair by Johnny Lavoy for ABTP.com Makeup by Kim Weber for Gucci Model: Sophie Theobald with Women/360 Management For more information on Nandana Villa, visit nandanavilla.com.

WHERE AND WHAT ARE IN-THE-KNOW NEW YORKERS EATING AND DRINKING RIGHT NOW? FROM FANCIFIED COMFORT FOOD TO PSEUDO-SEASIDE RETREATS AND VIRGIN COCKTAILS TO OFF-THE-BEATEN-PATH NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANTS, WE TRACK THE CITY’S TOP FOOD TRENDS AND MUST-EAT MEALS.

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PHOTO BY NICOLE FRANZEN

TASTY DELIGHTS

Kiin Thai Eatery

SEA CHANGES Clockwise from left: Pizza Beach was designed to evoke a ‘90s retro beachside cafe; the lobster roll at BKB, the UES outpost of the East Hampton restaurant; Lazy Point is named after the Hamptons neighborhood where the co-owner grew up.

Beach-to-Table

There may not be sand underfoot, but these urban surf shacks are bringing the food and feel of the beach to the city.

BKB

Direct from East Hampton comes this ocean-to-table concept serving the best aquatic edibles from East Coast waters— Harbor fluke (from $17), Maine lobster rolls ($26), fisherman’s soup ($14), day boat sea scallops ($16) and Atlantic black sea bass ($18). A $1 oyster happy hour (nightly, 5 to 6pm) makes you wonder if you’re really on the Upper East Side, and not on Three Mile Harbor. 321 E. 73rd St., bkbrestaurant.com

chandeliers make the dining room bright as a Mediterranean summer day, and an abstract sailboat (constructed by Julian Schnabel out of broken plates) hangs on a wall of the Torrisi team’s hot new Renzo Piano-designed restaurant.

Cocktails ($15) are served in ceramic pineapples, and Mario Carbone’s seafood- and veggie-focused Italian menu takes its inspiration from sea fare of the Amalfi Coast. 820 Washington St., santinanyc.com

Walls of white-washed pine and chairs that wouldn’t seem out of place on the deck of a waterfront estate make this Isan Thai restaurant an accidental beach cafe.

Scorching salads like Som Tum Seafood ($13)—potent with pureed bird’s-eye chiles—make diners long for a cool plunge in the Andaman Sea. 36 E. 8th St., kiinthaieatery.com

Lazy Point

In the landmarked former home of ship captain Dennison Wood, elevated bar fare (oyster pot pie, $21; poached shrimp salad, $16; scallop crudo, $19) and design elements like weathered sea-green wood floors, driftwood lighting, black-and-white seascape photos and a 36-foot umbrella-striped bar come together to evoke the namesake sandy hamlet between East Hampton and Montauk, where co-owner Jason LaGarenne grew up. 310 Spring St., lazypointnyc.com

a retro Malibu beach cafestyle backdrop for veggieforward Neapolitan pizzas (from $15), cooked to crisp perfection in only 90 seconds in a state-of-the-art Wood Stone wood-fired oven. The pies are topped with butternut squash and purple kale; roasted beets and goat cheese; lamb Merguez and Oaxaca cheese; and Thai coconut curry and rock shrimp. 1426 Third Ave., pizzabeachclub.com

Pizza Beach

Santina

Surfboards, hanging palm ferns, lobster-red metal chairs and an aqua-and-whitecheckered tile floor provide

In a glass cube beneath the High Line, palm and orange trees bear fruit, Murano glass 101

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HONORABLE MENTION Réunion Surf Bar

Haute tropical beach shack decor (reclaimed wood, vintage surfboards, lights fashioned out of Japanese fishing lanterns) evoke Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Madagascar. Waiter, another Dark Blizzard (a frozen Dark ’n’ Stormy, $12) and two shark fry tacos ($12), please. 357 W. 44th St., reunionbar.com

TOP DOG From top: Dirt Candy’s broccoli hot dog; the interior of Tuome, which offers a mac and cheese with blue crabmeat.

Unexpected Upscale

Humble favorites turn highbrow as innovative chefs source only heirloom, artisanal and housemade ingredients and employ high-end techniques in their preparation and presentation.

Nevermind that this is a steakhouse. The thing to order at buzzy Bowery Meat Company is Executive Chef Paul DiBari’s duck lasagna ($48)—six layers of braised Hudson Valley duck leg ragù, thin sheets of pasta, a halfpound of caciocavallo and Parmesan cheeses, tomatoes and sauteed maitake mushrooms, delivered to the table in a piping-hot casserole dish. 9 E. 1st St., bowerymeatcompany.com

Birds & Bubbles’ Fried Chicken

Under chef Sarah Simmons’ supervision at Birds & Bubbles, Amish chicken is drybrined in cayenne for 48 hours, buttermilkbattered and pan-fried in a cast-iron skillet, presented in a brown paper-lined wire basket or silver Champagne bucket, and paired with a celebratory Champagne (nearly 30 varieties from small growers are available, from $85) at this new spot for elevated Southern-fried fowl and fizzies.

100B Forsythe St., birdsandbubbles.com

The green stalk is tucked inside a homemade Japanese milk bread bun and served with saltand-vinegar broccoli rabe chips and broccoli rabe coleslaw. 86 Allen St., dirtcandynyc.com

Mu Ramen’s Chicken Wings

In a labor-intensive process that takes up to five days, chef Joshua Smookler’s wildly popular tebasaki gyoza (aka chicken wings, $14) at Mu Ramen in Long Island City are deboned; stuffed with foie gras, bits of brioche and quince paste; battered with rice flour; deep-fried; and served two per order. 12-09 Jackson Ave., Queens, ramennyc.wix.com

Tuome’s Mac and Cheese

In chef Thomas Chen’s Asian-inflected iteration of the American comfort food classic at Tuome ($17), pasta shells cradle an abundance of thick bechamel, Gruyere and mascarpone sauce; the cheesy mixture is spiced with karee (Thai yellow curry paste) and topped with chunks of sweet blue crabmeat. 536 E. 5th St., tuomenyc.com

Dirt Candy’s Hot Dogs

At Dirt Candy, Amanda Cohen’s shiny new and expanded sanctuary for vegetables, the queen of plant-based cuisine prepares a meatless hot dog ($21)—a smoked, grilled and sauteed broccoli dog heaped with broccolini kraut, broccoli microgreens and South Carolina mustard-based barbecue sauce.

HONORABLE MENTION Colonie’s Ketchup

Burgers long ago morphed into a fancy food (think: stuffed with foie gras; blanketed with truffles; fashioned out of prime rib). Now, Andrew Whitcomb, rising star chef at Colonie in Brooklyn Heights, has jazzed up the classic condiment. His beet ketchup is a mashup of slow-roasted beets, zesty Sir Kensington’s (fresh from the Meatpacking District), roasted garlic, onions, spices and vinegar. 127 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, colonienyc.com

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Fringe Neighborhoods

Some of the hottest young chefs and most adventurous restaurateurs are setting up shop in areas far beyond the traditional bounds of fine-dining destinations.

M. Wells Steakhouse in Long Island City

Across the East River, the 45-degree angled rooftop of Midtown’s towering Citigroup Center dominates the sky above auto garages and the unmarked entrance of Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis’s beloved chophouse, M. Wells Steakhouse.

The humble surroundings give way to noseto-tail specialties, including French onion soup with marrow ($14), pig’s head with mushrooms ($40) and blood sausage ($15).

43-15 Crescent St., Queens, magasinwells.com

The Pines in Gowanus

Best known to lifelong Manhattanites for its historically polluted canal, Gowanus—still industrial, but rapidly attracting families and

DIRT CANDY PHOTO BY EVAN SUNG; TUOME PHOTO BY NOAH FECKS

Bowery Meat Company’s Lasagna

SQUID PHOTO BY JESSICA OSHITA; POIARKOFF PHOTO BY GENTL & HYERS; ROBERT PHOTO BY YANA PASKOVA

WORTHY PILGRIMAGES Clockwise from left: Chef Frédéric Robert inside the Bed-Stuy-based L’Antagoniste; John Poiarkoff, who’s bringing his talents to Gowanus at The Pines; the restaurant’s squid with shishitos, leeks, romesco and mandarinquat.

young professionals—is the surprising pocket of Brooklyn where 31-year-old chef John Poiarkoff lives and cooks his eclectic, imaginative, farmto-table contemporary American cuisine at The Pines. Each dish (from $6 to $28) features responsibly sourced ingredients that Poiarkoff cures, ages, ferments, pickles or makes inhouse, often with high-tech kitchen gadgets.

284 Third Ave., Brooklyn, thepinesbk.com

L’Antagoniste in Bedford-Stuyvesant A classic French ristorante, L’Antagoniste recently arrived in off-the-eaten-path BedStuy, bringing frog legs brandade ($15), duck a l’orange ($27), lobster thermidor ($29) and crepes suzette ($10) to east Brooklyn.

Diners from near and far are taking notice, and owner Amadeus Broger, a partner in Noho’s charming Le Philosophe, has enlisted renowned chef Frédéric Robert to dish out the cuisine magnifique. 238 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, lantagoniste.com

MP Taverna in Astoria

In the traditionally Greek enclave of

Astoria, amid old-school diners and souvlaki joints, chef Michael Psilakis (of Fishtag and Kefi fame) offers his modern interpretation of exquisite Hellenic cuisine at MP Taverna. Look for grilled octopus tentacles with chickpeas in yogurt sauce ($17), spicy lamb sausage-filled dumplings ($17) and, for large groups, whole roasted animals (baby lamb, suckling pig, kid goat; price on request). 31-29 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, Queens, michaelpsilakis.com

La Marina in Inwood

To arrive on a bicycle, simply follow the Hudson River Greenway north, 1 1/2 miles past the George Washington Bridge, to La Marina. By boat, reserve a slip at the restaurant’s own marina. Of course, you can also take the A train or a car to this picturesque riverfront retreat at the top of Manhattan isle—on a rocky crescent of shoreline between Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Park—for Latin-flavored cocktails, music and food. Open seasonally starting May 1. 348 Dyckman St., lamarinanyc.com 103 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

HONORABLE MENTION Thirty Acres in Jersey City

Just a 10-minute PATH ride from Midtown, this nascent foodie mecca (often considered NYC’s sixth borough) boasts two top attractions: spectacular views of the Financial District and Thirty Acres, the special-occasion seasonal American restaurant where Momofuku alum chef Kevin Pemoulie’s new 10-course tasting menu ($75) is drawing connoisseurs of fine dining to the far side of the Hudson River. 500 Jersey Ave., N.J., thirtyacres.tumblr.com

Special Deliveries

Taking a cue from food delivery services like Blue Apron (whose founder we profile later in this issue), these innovative eateries are bringing delicious food and gift baskets right to your doorstep.

Blue Hill

Few gift baskets come with more serious foodie cred than the offerings from Blue Hill.

Pick from their array of jams and flavored sea salts (from $10), plus kitchen items like perfectly shaped wooden spoons (from $7) and embroidered aprons (from $62), all signifying the ultimate in taste—and flavor.

Delivery from $12. bluehillmarket.com

Brooklyn Fare

and live lobsters (prices on request)—within its home borough, and has plans to expand to Manhattan soon. Delivery from $5. 200 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, brooklynfare.com

Caviar

Most of NYC’s high-end restaurants don’t offer delivery, but with this service, meals from dozens of gourmet eateries—on the order of 21 Club, L’Apicio or Spice Market— can be whisked to your door via Caviar’s food messengers for only $10. trycaviar.com

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providing the perfect setup for cocktail-party snacks, teatime goodies and so much more (delivery from $25). Meanwhile, E.A.T. Gifts, from Eli’s longtime collaborator Kim Staller, offers toys, games and housewares that make for ideal hostess gifts (with delivery within Manhattan from $22.50)— so keep them in mind when planning weekend visits to the Hamptons. elizabar.com

Munchery

Munchery’s chefs prepare meals (from $9 per entree and $3 per side item)— ordered on-demand or up to a week in advance—that arrive ready to be reheated (via provided instructions). Menus change weekly, and each dish is created by a particular chef in his area of specialty (for instance, a chef who formerly worked at Nobu makes the sushi), making it easy to play favorites. munchery.com

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The food shop that’s also home to Brooklyn’s only three-Michelin-starred restaurant delivers goodies (from $5)—think housemade croissants (from $2.25), blue foot mushrooms from France

G-Rated Libations

What these luscious thirst quenchers lack in booze, they more than make up for in flavor, fizz, good-for-body-and-soul ingredients and sex appeal.

The NoMad Bar’s Soft Cocktails

Crafted with as much attention to detail as any spirit-heavy concoction on the menu, The NoMad Bar’s Soft Cocktails ($8) include refreshing basil-fennel soda (housemade basil-fennel syrup, lemon and lime juice, club soda), the Creamsicle-like Cease and Desist (orange juice, heavy cream, orange blossom water) and the hot-and-sweet La Piña (jalapenoinfused agave syrup, pineapple juice, lime juice). 10 W. 28th St., thenomadhotel.com

The Irvington’s Cold-pressed Juices

AT YOUR SERVICE Clockwise from top left: Momofuku’s David Chang is set to launch Maple, an app-driven food-delivery service; a delectable meal from Munchery; 21 Club’s famous burger can be delivered to your door via Caviar.

HONORABLE MENTION Maple

Launching later this year, Maple is the brainchild of a high-tech team— plus Momofuku’s David Chang—that’s using apps and algorithms in its aim to deliver restaurant-quality food to customers in 30 minutes or less. trymaple.com

Nutritious, delicious cold-pressed juice drinks ($9) from the juicing geniuses at Liquiteria— the Grasshopper (apple, pineapple, wheatgrass, mint), All Greens (kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber), Killer XX (apple, lemon, ginger, cayenne)—are served during breakfast, brunch and lunch at Irvington, the new American Union Square Greenmarket-totable restaurant from the trendsetting Gerber Group. 201 Park Ave. South, irvingtonnyc.com

of bubbles. Spritely spring flavors include Canteloupe Mint, Yuzu Watermelon, Peach Sage and Lavender Honey Lemon. 310 W. 38th St., casanonna.com

Lyfe Kitchen’s Lyfe Waters

With a focus on local, seasonal, organic and non-GMO ingredients, Lyfe Kitchen prides itself on its Lyfe Waters VIRGIN TIPPLES From top: Three of the well-crafted nonalcoholic ($3), infused beverages cocktails from Genuine Superette; that include Hibiscus Beet The Irvington’s Grasshopper. (hibiscus tea infused with beet, apple, lemon, ginger), Orange Ginger Chia (fresh-squeezed orange juice, filtered water, lime, ginger, mint chia seeds) and, new for spring, Mango Limeade (mango, lime, fresh turmeric, Thai basil) and Strawberry-Rhubarb Chia Water. 248 W. 55th St., lyfekitchen.com

Genuine Superette’s Mixed Juices

Wildly inventive juice blends ($9) are enjoyed straight-up during the day and mixed into cocktails at night at Genuine Superette.

Beverages include Green (fennel, cucumber, celery, kale, apple, lime, oleo saccarum, The Bitter Truth celery bitters), Purple (beet, apple, lemon, parsley, angostura bitters) and Orange (orange, carrot, parsnip, turmeric, ginger, lemon, ginger shrub). 191 Grand St., eatgenuine.com

Casa Nonna’s Seasonal Sodas

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HONORABLE MENTION MatchaBar’s Matcha

The ancient antioxidant-rich beverage is made from the highest quality green tea leaves, which are grown in Japan exclusively for MatchaBar. Here, matcha— which boosts energy and alertness with one-third less caffeine than coffee—is whizzed into matcha lattes, matchaccinos, matchiatos and specialty drinks like Fuji apple ginger, vanilla almond and cinnamon hemp (from $3.25). 93 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, matchabarnyc.com

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THESE SIX NYC ENTREPRENEURS—ALL UNDER 40—ARE CHANGING THE WORLD ONE WEBSITE, DIGITAL MEDIA PLATFORM, ACCESSORY AND EVEN MATTRESS AT A TIME.

By Thomas P. Farley and Anne Marie O’Connor

Anthony Casalena It’s a tech-world cliche—the multimilliondollar business that started in a dorm room. For Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena, the impetus wasn’t getting revenge on a girlfriend (a la Mark Zuckerberg), but rather his frustration at trying to build a website for himself. “At the time, you had to cobble together all these different software packages—blogging, page-building, hosting,” explains Casalena, who then was a student at the University of Maryland. “I was pissed off at how complicated it was, even for me, and I’m an engineer!”

So in 2004 Casalena built his own software from scratch, and after a friend asked to buy it, a business was born. Squarespace allows users to easily create and manage their own websites, whether it’s a novice who wants a simple Web presence or a sophisticated designer at an agency working for high-profile clients. (Squarespace platforms are used for Bottega Veneta, Lyft and HBO’s sites.)

After college, Casalena moved to NYC, which has been key for the company’s growth. Squarespace now has more than 400 employees, and more than 4 million sites have been created using its products.

Though New York has been great for Squarespace’s growth, “the personal reasons for moving here really came first,” he says. ”It’s a daily source of inspiration for me.” squarespace.com –AMO

PHOTO BY COLLIN HUGHES

33, CEO AND FOUNDER, SQUARESPACE

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30, FOUNDER AND CEO, FEED

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“Feed has been a crash course in business, design, operations and marketing, but most important is the mission: knowing that if we sell just one Feed bag, we’ve fed one child for one year—which is pretty darn great,” says Lauren Bush Lauren, founder and CEO of Feed.

The idea for the company was born 11 years ago, when Lauren, then a student at Princeton, visited Guatemala as a student spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Programme.

“The first stop was at a therapeutic feeding center for severely malnourished children who were truly suffering and in pain,” recalls Lauren, granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush and wife of Ralph Lauren’s son David. Another visit—to a school where the children were getting free lunches—made her realize the difference a school-based feeding program could make. “It was extremely eye-opening,” she says.

After college, she vacillated between going into fashion and pursuing a career in humanitarian work. “Then I had this ‘aha’ moment: Why not utilize the power of fashion to do something good, like feeding children,” she says. So in 2007, she founded Feed. Her first product was the famous burlap tote, seen on the arms of starlets like Blake Lively and Reese Witherspoon.

Since then, the line has expanded to include scarves, jewelry and T-shirts—and has provided nearly 88 million meals to children around the world. feedprojects.com –AMO

Tricia Clarke-Stone Sure, advertising today may be less glamorous than back in the three-martinilunch days of Don Draper. But Tricia Clarke-Stone, CEO and co-founder (with media magnate Russell Simmons) of Narrative, a digital marketing agency, makes it sound like the coolest job in town.

“Digital is uncharted territory—you make the rules up as you go,” says ClarkeStone, a Brooklyn native who now lives in Chelsea with her husband, Kris. Narrative creates campaigns for clients ranging from Under Armour to Universal Pictures to Beyoncé’s fragrance, Rise, using a variety of platforms, from traditional commercial spots to newer formats including social media campaigns, custom-built apps and even Vine and SoundCloud.

Clarke-Stone met Simmons in 2009 when he hired her to lead Global Grind, his digital media company and online destination covering urban pop culture.

They started Narrative in 2013 to offer clients more comprehensive services.

One of their most recent projects is ADD52, a sort of new-media version of American Idol created to promote Samsung Milk Music, a streaming service. “We invited emerging artists to submit tracks across all genres and got 20,000 submissions,” she says. Audiences picked their favorites, some of whom have gone on to achieve mainstream success: Niykee Heaton’s debut EP hit No. 3 on iTunes, and Janel Marisse opened for R&B chart-topper Trey Songz.

Clarke-Stone confesses she’s pretty plugged in during her off-hours too: “I love online shopping; I do it way too much. I don’t have pets—I have my shoes and clothes instead.” narrative.is –AMO

PHOTO BY BRANDON SCHULMAN

39, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, NARRATIVE

Matthew Salzberg

PHOTO BY BRANDON SCHULMAN

31, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, BLUE APRON While your average wildly successful Internet entrepreneur is more likely to be found dining at Eleven Madison Park or Per Se, Matthew Salzberg is at home slaving over a hot stove. But instead of schlepping from market to market, he simply opens a box of ingredients from Blue Apron, the meal-kit delivery service he co-founded. “Every night, my wife, Lily Hayes, and I cook dinner together,” he says. “For us, it’s about the food, but also about the social experience. It’s what we do instead of sitting in front of the TV and ordering Chinese food.”

Salzberg, who grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Gramercy Park, says food has always been a major passion. “I loved watching Iron Chef when I was in high school,” he says. He’s been an entrepreneur nearly as long: While an undergraduate at Harvard, Salzberg started a laundry service for his fellow students.

After earning his MBA (also from Harvard) and brief stints working in finance, Salzberg was itching to start another business. Three years ago, he and fellow food fanatic Ilia Papas, a technical architect who had helped launch ruelala.com, hatched the idea for Blue Apron. “We both liked to cook but found it was inaccessible, expensive and difficult to do on a regular basis,” says Salzberg. “We said, ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone delivered recipes and ingredients and you could just enjoy the cooking?’” After recruiting chef Matthew Wadiak, the three launched Blue Apron in August 2012. Just a year and a half later, the company is delivering a million meals per month.

And what Iron Chef can say that? blueapron.com –AMO

Mona Bijoor 38, FOUNDER AND CEO, JOOR “You need to have passion when you launch a new business, but passion on its own isn’t enough.” For Mona Bijoor, of online fashion marketplace Joor, the vital ingredient is something far deeper: “You must have an affinity for the problem you’re trying to solve.”

In the case of Joor, the dilemma she set out to cure was a weighty one: how to connect global fashion brands both big and small with retailers interested in carrying their wares. In addition to simplifying that discovery process, Bijoor zeroed in on ways to remove a major pain point from the purchasing equation: paperwork.

With career experience on both sides of the buying formula— on the retail portion, working for Ann Taylor and Destination Maternity; and on the brand side, during stints at Chanel and Elie Tahari—Bijoor had firsthand knowledge of a system that still seemed mired in the 19th century. The solution her company provides—an online marketplace that allows retailers to interact, place and follow their orders with brands anywhere on the planet—has quickly established itself as a sine qua non for the industry. Since launching in 2010, Joor has enlisted 1,000 suppliers for the platform and signed on a whopping 100,000 retailers.

In dollar terms, that equated to $10 million in revenue for Joor in 2014. “We’re on track to double that this year,” she adds.

At 38, Bijoor says she loves her job. “In a very funky way, this is what I was meant to do,” she reveals. “The fun part is knowing I’m helping make people’s lives easier.” joor.com –TPF

Philip Krim 31, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, CASPER

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“The quality of your sleep affects your happiness, your creativity, your intelligence... everything,” says Philip Krim. Although he’s not getting as much shut-eye as he’d like these days—six or seven hours versus his preferred eight or nine—it’s certainly not for lack of a good bed. As the CEO of year-old Casper, an online mattress store offering a 100-night money-back guarantee, Krim speaks proudly of a ticker on his company’s website that keeps tabs on the Z’s enjoyed by his customers. “Currently it’s more than 5 million nights,” he reports.

With only two showrooms, one in Noho and one in Los Angeles, most of the company’s acolytes order a Casper mattress without ever setting foot in a store. A mattress might seem the last of all items a buyer might purchase sight unseen, but Casper’s fail-safe buy-and-try assurance has been winning over would-be skeptics. If after three-plus months a customer is not convinced, the company picks up the mattress and issues a full refund.

Krim says he and his four co-founders have instigated a paradigm shift in the industry—and that traditional mattress retailers should watch their backs.

The sales speak for themselves: $20 million in Casper’s first 10 months alone. Much of the buzz has come from word of mouth, and of all of the customer stories he’s heard since launch, Krim has a handsdown favorite. “She’s 83, lives in the Midwest and, after falling off a tractor, hadn’t been able to sleep lying down the entire night through.” After discovering Casper on Facebook, she quickly placed an order, tried the mattress and began sleeping like a baby.

Though Krim may not be getting the hours of rest his own body craves, he can take comfort knowing that his customers now can. casper.com –TPF

POWER BREAKFAST WITH BARBARA CLOSE Midtown East Step Up Women’s Network and Manhattan magazine hosted a successful Power Breakfast at CORE: club. The morning featured speaker Barbara Close, CEO of Naturopathica, in conversation with Manhattan’s Editor-in-Chief Cristina Cuomo. Barbara shared with SUWN supporters and guests her start into the beauty industry, the importance of a proper skin regimen and new cuttingedge Naturopathica products.

Photography by Andrew Werner

Cristina Cuomo and Barbara Close

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IVY CONNECT Midtown West As the world’s fastest growing collaborative community, IVY (ivy.com) continued to bring together NYC’s next generation of leading minds through a series of once in a lifetime experiences, such as a private salon discussion entitled Going Viral: Why Things Catch On with renowned Wharton professor and New York Times best-selling author, Jonah Berger in a night sponsored by Peroni.

Julie Shin and Jonah Berger

On Valentine’s Day, IVY members were enchanted by the elegant Ài Valentine’s Cocktail Party at TAO Downtown. The fabulous crowd enjoyed amazing music and cocktails by Milano Green Vodka.

IVY also hosted a beautiful private art viewing at Paul Kasmin Gallery, sponsored by Peroni and Reyka Vodka.

Members and their guests enjoyed an exhibit entitled “The New School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler,” featuring works by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Albers, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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Going Viral: Why Things Catch On featuring Jonah Berger

Photography by Sunny Norton and Max Gordon Private Art Viewing & Cocktail Reception at Paul Kasmin Gallery

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The Spa at Farmhouse Inn resembles a horse stable with an elegant twist.

Rural Revival

Given Northern California’s breathtaking landscape, it’s no surprise that design in the wine country has taken a shift toward simplicity, including Russian River Valley’s Farmhouse Inn. After a yearlong renovation by San Francisco’s SB Architects and Healdsburg’s Myra Hoefer Design, the award-winning hotel recently unveiled a revamped pool and nine new barn rooms—complete with weathered-wood furnishings, earth-toned fabrics and Italian Carrara marble bathrooms—to accompany 16 existing accommodations. There’s also the brand-new Spa at Farmhouse Inn, a space epitomizing bucolic elegance via a rural-chic aesthetic and bevy of treatments, including Farmhouse Inn owner Catherine Bartolomei’s namesake treatment, Catherine’s Favorite, which consists of a massage, hair and scalp treatment, and foot exfoliation all in one (from $260). “We wanted to create something that was completely different from any spa that we had ever seen,” says Bartolomei of the concept. “A converted horse stable, with a mix of rustic and glamorous finishes, seemed like just the thing.”

This setting complements decadent farm-to-table dining at the Michelin-starred Farmhouse Restaurant, with Executive Chef Steve Litke’s daily changing menu featuring provisions from locally based artisan farmers. (The rabbit—Litke’s signature dish—is a must-try.) Another reason to visit this quaint yet luxurious destination is, of course, the wine. To this end, Farmhouse Inn’s new in-room sommelier program is a truly tantalizing prospect for guests who prefer detailing their wine preferences upon arrival, then finding their rooms stocked with an array of related vintages, both local and international, hand-selected by sommelier Allyson Gorsuch, along with appropriate wine glasses and a note describing each bottle. The wine country experience in the privacy of your own hotel room? Cheers to that! Room rates from $595, 7871 River Road, Forestville, Calif., farmhouseinn.com –Jess Charmoli

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BODIES IN MOTION From top: Fight the effects of aging with the right workouts for any decade of life; David Harris.

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST AS OUR BODIES CHANGE WITH AGE, OUR WORKOUT ROUTINES SHOULD CHANGE WITH THEM. DAVID HARRIS, EQUINOX’S (EQUINOX.COM) VP OF PERSONAL TR AINING, TELLS US HOW TO DO THE BODY GOOD DURING ANY DECADE. 30s To decrease stress on the spine, lessen your spinal load with weight-bearing exercises that decrease stress like VIPR tubes, medicine balls, sandbags, sand-bells and other objects that can change shape and direction and don’t work in fixed paths. They also cause the recruitment of more muscle tissue and an increase in caloric burn. People in their 30s should also start to focus on agility and speed exercises that require coordination, as those workouts stimulate greater brain activity and prepare the body for the rigors of the next decade, when many begin to face hormonal shifts that cause changes in weight distribution.

40s Reducing stress and keeping up antioxidant levels are key as we age, so I suggest incorporating yoga into your fitness routine, along with maintaining a diet filled with high fiber, fruits and vegetables.

A Boston University study showed that yoga increases GABA [gamma-aminobutyric acid—the brain’s most abundant inhibitory, or

“calming,” neurotransmitter] levels, which in turn are linked to lower levels of stress.

50s Though cardiovascular exercise is not usually associated with fitness in the 50s, it actually stimulates neurogenesis, the process by which we produce more cellular activity in the brain and enhance neural function, so cardio is critical to maintaining memory as well as helping with coordination, speed and agility. The best method at this age is plyometric activity, which is easy on the joints. Using various intensities relaxes arteries and promotes blood flow.

60s+ Fitness emphasis should be on flexibility and posture, because the body becomes less pliable and more brittle as you age. This problem of compromised movement is best mitigated by exercises that focus on core and upper back strength as well as optimal spinal alignment. Mixing in Pilates, yoga and tai chi can also encourage more graceful movement patterns and fluid motion.

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NikeLab x Sacai Nike’s newest designer collaboration is with Chitose Abe, lead designer for Japan-based brand Sacai.

The eight-piece collection features brightly colored sweatpants, hoodies and windrunners (from $150) reimagined with fluid fabrics, plisse pleats and peplum. In June, the collection will add the eagerly awaited NikeLab Dunk Lux, a fashion-forward remake of the classic high-top. nike.com QOR This men’s-only online fitnesswear brand—backed by a group of high-powered investors including J.Crew’s Mickey Drexler—presents stylish pieces for running, biking and indoor and outdoor training that come in breathable fabrics and muted colors, as well as QOR Kits, a curated collection of gym-bag essentials for your pastime. For example, the Run Kit 001’s nine pieces ($1,035 for all) include shorts, tights, tops, and even trailrunning shoes and a strap-on water bottle. qorkit.com FASHIONABLY FIT From left: A look from the NikeLab x Sacai collection; the QOR Neoshell lightweight performance jacket.

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A MOVEABLE FEAST A STELLAR TOUR THROUGH BURGUNDY, GUIDED BY THE LEGENDARY LUXURY HOSPITALITY GROUP RELAIS & CHÂTEAUX, PROVES THE PERFECT BLEND FOR LOVERS OF FINE CUISINE.

By Patti Dickey

With great anticipation, I boarded my Air France flight, which turned out to be a perfect first step on a luxurious culinary trip through glorious Burgundy. The in-flight meal by Régis Marcon, Air France’s three-Michelin-starred chef, whetted my appetite for the gastronomic delights that awaited. In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Relais & Châteaux hospitality group (relaischateaux.com), known for its unique and sumptuous properties, lavish spas and storied Michelin-starred restaurants, a five-property whirlwind tour lay ahead, promising a once-in-a-lifetime dining experience.

Our first stop was Relais & Châteaux’s La Côte Saint Jacques (from $240, relaischateaux.com/lorain), located in Joigny, a quaint town only 90 minutes from Paris that’s described as the gateway to Burgundy. An under-street tunnel connects the two sections, and guests are afforded a glimpse of family photographs as well as the property’s fabulous wine cellar. La Côte Saint Jacques boasts 32 rooms and suites, each individually decorated. My suite had a generous sitting area and a king-size bed that had the most heavenly mattress and linens.

Nearby tennis and golf is available, but I opted for an expertly delivered massage in the hotel’s Spa Côte Coon. Adjacent to the spa, you’ll find a luxurious indoor swimming pool, set off by majestic arches and exquisite mosaic tiles. Totally relaxed, I floated back to my suite to indulge in the beautifully appointed marble bath. I was ready for the gastronomic feast that awaited.

Chef Jean-Michel Lorain, the youngest ever in Michelin’s history to earn three stars, presented a multicourse meal that did not disappoint. Each course was paired with the perfect wine to complement and enhance the flavors. The food is deceptively simple, its presentation inviting the discovery of the layers of flavor.

Next on our itinerary was Chablis, the town known for its fine white wines. After a morning excursion touring the Domaine Laroche wine cellars, we strolled to a delightful local brasserie, Bistrot des Grand Crus, for a bite of lunch.

The food was regionally influenced and plentiful, and the wine list represented the region perfectly. continued…

TABLES SPLENDIDE Clockwise from top: Elegant courtyard dining at Chantilly’s Auberge de Jeu de Paume; delectable bites by La Côte Saint Jacques chef Jean-Michel Lorain; the chef at work in the hotel’s kitchen.

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dessert course that featured a spun chocolate crown and a perfectly cut green apple, I made my way to my comfortable suite. The next morning, we viewed the hotel’s Alexandre Dumaine historic room. Original to the main building, the decor of the room, which now serves as the breakfast room, has been exactly preserved since the early 20th century—and has hosted such luminaries as Prince Rainier, Salvador Dalí, Rita Hayworth and Charlie Chaplin, to name just a few.

Next we traveled to the charming medieval village of Flavignysur-Ozerain, where a majority of the scenes from the movie Chocolat were filmed. Flavigny is known as one of the most beautiful villages in France and is where the anisette candy, Les Anis de Flavigny, is manufactured. Lunch was enjoyed at La Grange de Flavigny, a local bistro serving family-style dishes featuring fresh ingredients from area farms—farm to table in the truest sense.

After a fascinating tour of the Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, we were on our way to our next stop, Relais & Châteaux’s chef Marc Meneau’s L’Espérance (from $200, relaischateaux.com/esperance), located in Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay.

Known as the founding father of modern French cuisine, Meneau and his restaurant proudly sport two Michelin stars. Around his restaurant, the chef and his wife have built and developed a luxury hotel, a winery and a more modest pension and restaurant.

The main stone lodge, with cream-colored shutters, projects a warm, inviting aura. The interiors are modernly furnished and the rear of the house features a dramatic expanse of windows overlooking enchanting gardens. There are rooms available in the main building, although most of it is dedicated to the restaurants, as well as rooms across the road in a converted 19th century mill and a nearby modern single-story guest annex. This property sports 31 bedrooms, a small conference facility and three dining rooms: Bistro Gainsbourg, a casual place; continued… …continued Our next stop, Relais & Châteaux’s Relais Bernard Loiseau (from $260, relaischateaux.com/loiseau) in Saulieu, is five hours from Paris. This five-star property has a historic and colorful past. And the namesake restaurant has maintained its three Michelin stars since first earning them in 1991 under chef Bernard Loiseau. Loiseau forever transformed French cuisine with his technique of cooking with limited use of fats and sugar, and via his signature method of deglazing with water. The food was deceptively simple yet immensely complex and bursting with flavor. Upon Loiseau’s untimely death in 2003, his second in command, chef Patrick Bertron, stepped up and continues to run the kitchen in the spirit of his predecessor.

The hotel, under the watchful eye of scion Dominique Loiseau, boasts several dining rooms overlooking the gardens in the back. The property features an outdoor pool and a spa, which carries the cosmetic aromatherapy line Decléor.

In addition to the expected spa services, the spa offers intriguing wraps designed to pamper the body and soul.

My suite overlooked the gardens and had a lovely outdoor terrace. The antique furniture and fittings are substantial (you could get lost in the bedding and linens), yet every modern amenity is available. My suite also had a wood-burning fireplace that cast a warm glow on the burgundy floor tiles topped with regionally inspired rugs.

Dinner that evening included one of Bernard Loiseau’s classic dishes: frog legs with garlic puree and a parsley jus. Beautifully yet simply presented, it was absolutely delicious. After an incredible

ARTFUL ACCOMMODATIONS Clockwise from top left: A stunning exterior staircase at the Relais Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu; the inn’s classic dish: frog legs with garlic puree and parsley jus; a regal suite at the Relais Bernard Loiseau.

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GOTHIC GLORY Clockwise from top left: Elaborate archways hint at the original use of Vézelay’s L’Abbaye de la Bussière; immaculate gardens and pathways await at chef Marc Meneau’s L’Espérance in Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay; Auberge de Jeu de Paume and its chef, Arnaud Faye (his agnolotti, gentian and green peas dish pictured), are new, very welcome additions to the Relais & Châteaux portfolio.

…continued L’Entre-Vignes, which offers Sunday brunch and acts as a gathering space; and the main dining room, a grand, airy expanse overlooking gardens. The latter proves to be the perfect place to savor the freshly innovative dishes that Meneau creates.

My room at the annex, across the road and near the outdoor pool, was cozy and cheerful, featuring hardwood floors, crisp white walls and sliding glass doors that opened onto a private covered patio.

Next, we were off to Vézelay to visit the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine. Rumor has it that the crypt contains part of the remains of Mary Magdalene. L’Abbaye de la Bussière (from $240, relaischateaux.com/bussiere), another in the Relais & Châteaux’s family of fine properties, was our next overnight destination.

Founded by the Cistercian monks in 1133, the abbey is tucked into a 15-acre park that has a large ornamental lake fed by the River Arvot.

The abbey has 18 bedrooms, each with a Jacuzzi bath. Just a half-hour from Dijon, it is

a perfect base for touring the vineyards. The Cummings family has owned this property since 2005. Guests familiar with their other property, in the U.K., Amberley Castle, followed them to France with great (and fulfilled) anticipation. My suite featured beautiful antique furnishings with a modern bathroom and up-to-date electronic conveniences.

This is definitely a property to consider for a longer stay if you are looking for some R&R in a sublimely comfortable environment.

The dining room is a gothically inspired space, complete with vaulted ceilings. Chef Emmanuel Hébrard, who has earned one Michelin star thus far, is a rising star in the ranks. The evening of our dinner, we were served one of the chef’s signature dishes, escargots de Bourgogne en risotto d’orge perlée et écume de fromage de chevre, a risotto with snails and goat cheese dressing.

Definitely put this dish on your bucket list!

In the morning, after breakfast, we set forth for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.

Established in 1787 and located in the former Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, this exquisite gem was opened to the public in 1799, making it one of the oldest museums in France.

Making our way back toward Paris, off we went to Chantilly to sample the delights promised by Auberge de Jeu de Paume (from $280, relaischateaux.com/ jeudepaume), a stunning new addition to the Relais & Châteaux portfolio. This gem with 92 rooms and suites overlooks the gardens of the Château de Chantilly. My room was a study in blue toile with elegant Louis XV armchairs nestled before floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the château gardens.

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Expect Valmont-branded treatments and rituals at the Moorish-inspired spa. The signature treatment, the Thousand & One Chantilly, however, is a real standout: Starting with an exfoliating treatment, followed by a relaxing massage, you’re then enveloped in a whipped cream body mask. The entire experience is topped off with a delectable serving of Chantilly cream with berries and a small square of chocolate. The only thing missing was a glass of Champagne.

Thoroughly pampered and relaxed, I made my way down to La Table du Connétable, the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, to savor the delights prepared by chef Arnaud Faye (who just recently captured his second Michelin star). The scallops prepared for our dinner were majestic—marinated and served bite-size along with Dungeness crab, kohlrabi, and a fine jelly of French caviar.

We then set off to explore the Château de Chantilly next door. Built in 1528 and destroyed during the French Revolution, the Château was rebuilt in the 1870s and is now open to the public as a museum. The main gallery here houses one of the finest art collections in France, second only to the Louvre. The Château and the adjacent Grand Stables were featured as the home of the villainous Max Zorin in the 1985 James Bond film, A View to a Kill.

Auberge de Jeu de Paume proved the perfect spot to spend my last night in France.

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SLIDE SHOW Cloud 9ʼs waterslide makes for thrilling waterborne fun.

Water World While you’d be hard-pressed to not have plenty of fun aboard the 197-foot Cloud 9, this yacht’s special top-deck Aquaglide Revolution inflatable waterslide will bring out the giggling little kid in anybody. This 2009 CMN Yachts build features accommodations for 12 guests in seven cabins (14 crew), including a gorgeous master suite designed by award-winning Andrew Winch (who is responsible for the entire exterior and interior design). A stunning central spiral staircase winds its way between decks centered around a spectacular glass sculpture, and amenities like a gym, Jacuzzi and state-of-the art cinema theater provide additional opportunities to relax and enjoy.

But don’t pass up a chance to pinch your nose and fly down the waterslide from the top deck at least once! Summer rates from $388,567, Burgess Yachts Miami, 305.672.0150, burgessyachts.com LUXURY EXPEDITION Among Legendʼs unique extras will be a helicopter and a submarine.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA WHILE CHARTERING A PRIVATE YACHT IS ALWAYS A CAUSE TO CELEBR ATE, THIS TRIO OF LUXURY VESSELS BOASTS OVER-THE-TOP AMENITIES SUCH AS A WATERSLIDE, A GPS-CONTROLLED DRONE AND AN EXPEDITION-QUALITY SUBMARINE. BON VOYAGE !

By Mike Espindle

From Above At nearly 164 feet of tridecked luxury, the Victoria Del Mar, a 2006 Delta Marine build, certainly stands bow-to-bow with other top charter yachts. With an extra-wide beam of nearly 34 feet and over 7,500 square feet of living space, Victoria Del Mar is a real eye-catcher at the dock with all the expected features: Elegant accommodations for 12 guests (11 crew), check; deck Jacuzzi and gym equipment, check; an elevator/lift between decks, check; a full complement of tenders and water toys, check. But this vessel has something the others don’t: a cameraequipped, GPS-controlled DJI Phantom 2 Vision drone. The drone is operated by the crew throughout your voyage to capture aerial footage of your party, your festivities and all the ports of call visited.

That footage is then edited into a stunning video chronicle and presented to you as a unique memento of your trip. Summer rates from $295,000, International Yacht Collection, 305.794.1167, iyc.com

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Polar Express Debuting at the Monaco Yacht Show in September, the one-of-a-kind, expedition-grade Legend (originally built as a Class 1 icebreaker) is receiving final refitting details at the ICON shipyard in the Netherlands as you read this and is scheduled for delivery this fall. Customdesigned to chase the polar summers, it will be cruising South America and Antarctica on maiden charters this winter. With ample room for 26 guests (19 crew), Legend looks like a sturdy exploration vessel, but charter guests will also explore luxury amenities like a dedicated Balinese spa, a helipad, a swim platform and swimming pool, a movie theater and a jam-packed fleet of every imaginable water toy (as well as snow scooters for land-based fun!). But above all, the opportunity to ply the polar waters submerged in its custom three-person submarine (garage-stored in the forward deck) really provides the stuff of which yachting dreams are made. Prepare to dive!

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For restaurateur John McDonald, keeping all the balls in the air at five hot restaurants is all in a day’s work. He’s seen here in The Gordon Bar, his stylish cocktail lounge in the lobby of the Sixty Soho Hotel.

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Opening this month, Sessanta (60 Thompson St., sixtyhotels.com), an Italian eatery in the Sixty Soho Hotel (Sessanta is Italian for “sixty”), is the latest addition to restaurateur John McDonald’s acclaimed Soho-centric restaurant brood that includes El Toro Blanco, B&B Winepub, Bowery Meat Company and Lure Fishbar.

“Sessanta is rooted in Sicilian history, so the menu is cleaner, healthier, seafood-driven,” says McDonald, whose first business, MercBar, was a prime Soho hot spot for 20 years, drawing the likes of Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia and Dolly Parton. (“We did a shot of Jack Daniel’s together,” he recalls of the country music queen.)

“The ability to stay connected to customers and staff is key,” he says, while holding court in the teak-lined, seafaring Lure during a busy lunch hour. “Our industry is about keeping a thing tuned. Every minute of the day, it’s trying to come out of tune. It’s like a car.”

So far, all systems are humming. Bowery Meat Company recently scored a two-star review in The New York Times (“intensely flavorful” and “true luxury” were some of the superlatives tossed around) and B&B Winepub has been added to the TMZ bus tour, thanks to Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber recently (but separately) imbibing there.

McDonald revels in the pop culture spotlight shining on one of his own: “We made it!” he declares triumphantly. –James Servin

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HARLEM KNIGHTS No question Marcus Samuelsson’s triumphant social club of diversity at Red Rooster and the march of new condos has set off a contagion of eats above Central Park. As the mouth that discovered Sylvia’s in 1979, when it was only a narrow counter luncheonette, and watched it grow to a Soul Food empire, I’m always game to taste what’s stewing uptown. My friends and I were quick to claim a table at The Cecil, Richard Parsons’ sprawling celebration of the African diaspora with its mix of Asian, African and low country soul by partner Alexander Smalls. We’ve been to Billie’s Black for soul with music, Maison Harlem for steak frites, and six of us dressed to kill in diamonds and furs arrived at Minton’s jazz session too early. The food is better now that J.J. Johnson is running its kitchen as well as The Cecil’s on the corner.

This month Harlem celebrates itself at Harlem Eat Up! Here, from my most recent detours, are four modest spots worth a visit, including one you might have to line up to get into. continued…

THE BIRD IS THE WORD From top: The interior of Streetbird Rotisserie, which serves carry-out and counter service; the restaurant’s green papaya salad; Blvd Bistro’s shrimp and grits.

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In anticipation of the neighborhood’s inaugural four-day food festival, Harlem Eat Up! (harlemeatup.com)—co-founded by Marcus Samuelsson, who announced the event last year alongside Bill Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio—intrepid food critic Gael Greene explores four uptown spots worth your attention.

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Streetbird Rotisserie With Red Rooster perpetually besieged and the overflow exultant at Ginny’s Supper Club below, I imagined Marcus Samuelsson’s promised Streetbird Rotisserie with instant lines around the block.

He’d been promising a kitchenette with carryout, delivery, a counter and variations of yardbird with all the fixins for years.

And then it landed. A fun house, a hip-hop museum of funk: vintage signs; sneakers hanging from the ceiling; bicycle wheel chandeliers; a boom box wall (with earphones so you can listen to recordings from locals); floors by graffiti artists; and church pew booths padded with strips of upholstery (including classic Louis Vuitton and Gucci).

“Spring Training” was clearly stamped on the menu that opening week. Everything was really cheap: $14.50 for a whole chicken, $5.50 a quarter for ebony, $6 for ivory. There was bird broth and wings, General Ye’s crispy chicken, bird and bread, chicken mole tacos and the Fly Girl salad with obligatory kale. Auntie Mabel’s cornbread “cake” was luscious, with or without Bird Funk (a condiment made from XO sauce). And the four of us demolished the Return of the Mac (rigatoni with Parmesan, cheddar and cream). Marcus has put a ton of his love for Harlem into this spot—it’s exactly what everyone loves to eat, and it’s cheap. Harlem will surely love him right back. 2149 Frederick Douglass Blvd., 212.206.2557, streetbirdnyc.com

FOOD WITH SOUL Clockwise from top: The smoked wings with achiote glaze and garlic crema at LoLo’s Seafood Shack; Streetbird’s General Ye’s Chicken; LoLo’s co-owner Leticia Young.

LoLo’s Seafood Shack I avoid places so hot and bothered they don’t take reservations, but my pal Vicky was determined to explore LoLo’s Seafood Shack and promised she’d pick me up in her car. If the wait was too long, we’d find another haven on nearby Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Harlem’s new restaurant row. If you planted a Caribbean Beach kiosk on 116th Street, I guess this is how it would look—some native art, amateur signage, mango and shocking pink and turquoise, with a flamingo standing on one foot in a continued…

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Blvd Bistro The cab will drop you on Lenox Avenue. Go west on 122nd Street to find the gate in the tall black wrought-iron fence guarding the condo not yet developed, and step into Blvd Bistro. It’s strangely deserted tonight, so we settle at the high communal table to discover there’s no booze—just cocktails made with wine or beer.

I’m happy with the not-too-sweet sangria. And exultant over sublime biscuits—light and salty and crumbly—to dab with sugarcane butter.

Chef Carlos Swepson’s “crafted American soul” food calls for upscale fuss. He will pan-fry organic chicken to order and sear each $8 iron pan of macaroni in a fiery oven for seven minutes to get the crunch on top. Seven cheeses? That’s what the menu says.

This could be dinner for me. But we’re sharing the shrimp and grits too, okra fried whole in a thick cornmeal muumuu, and heavily crusted dark meat chicken (my preference) with two sides—old-fashioned potato salad and collards. Better than the ribs, but then I’m not a fan of falling-off-the-bone. Banana bread pudding with bourbon pecan ice cream and apple cobbler satisfy the craving for a sweet at the end. 239 Malcolm X Blvd., 212.678.6200, boulevardbistrony.com

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…continued potted plant. Carryout is big here. The only table up front was empty. Vicky staked our claim while I went to the counter. You order. You pay. The waiter delivers.

We drank ginger beer and coconut soda, dragging homemade plantain chips through crabby dip, a rubbly paste with callaloo and Gruyere. Belizean conch fritters got dipped in lime zest remoulade. Marvelous smoked wings with an achiote glaze and garlic crema more than made up for dry, lackluster jerk ribs. The waiter brought us blue plastic gloves for peeling the buttery crawfish that got served in a plastic baggy. Of course, we had to have broccoli salad and the creamy cauliflower too.

Actually LoLo’s is a little bit Cape Cod (steampot seafood) as well as island. Guyana-born chef Raymond Mohan once worked at Jean-Georges’ Vong. His wife, the much-traveled Leticia “Skai” Young, picked up these food-marketing moves at culinary management school and Zuma restaurant group. Once she discovered us at our window perch, she insisted we try the sandwiches. They’re all on dense little house-baked johnnycake: crab cake; salmon; avocado; or that evening’s special, soft-shell crab.

Yes, that’s what you want. 303 W. 116th St., 646.649.3356, lolosseafoodshack.com

La Savane The lure of West African exotica drew us to La Savane on West 116th Street, the love child of two homesick cabbies—one from the Ivory Coast; the other, Guinea.

Early reports warned there were no menus and we’d get to practice our French. It was dark, with the gurgle of a fountain and an African village painted on one wall.

We found a hospitality upgrade: actual pages of menus, repetitive and not very revealing, but with the help of a bemused server I got my bissap— hibiscus nectar mixed with pineapple in a plastic bottle—and we settled on a delicious peanut sauce with floats of unidentified meat to go with the foutou, a roulade of raw cake dough we left untouched.

The Poisson Grille Simple was crispy and deliciously greasy. Gigot mouton proved to be two skinny, nicely caramelized lamb shanks, reasonably edible, alongside a plate of sweet, soft, irresistible plantains. The hacked poulet was half good enough, and we dunked the stringy white meat into the peanut sauce. Every dish came with a savory side of onions, tomato and sweet peppers in a mustardy sauce—even the not-to-be-missed pile of luscious, grated, fermented cassava pulp that looks like couscous and scarcely needs a crumble of the foil-wrapped Maggi bouillon cube nestled at the edge. Yes, there was a scattering of white faces possibly lured by intriguing tasting notes in that week’s New Yorker. But with the in and out of Africans and locals bumping into each other at the counter, I felt myself transported. 239 W. 116th St., 646.490.4644 M

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AFRICAN DELIGHTS Clockwise from top: West African eatery La Savane’s Poisson Grille Simple; the peanut sauce; fermented cassava pulp.

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THE GUIDE Enjoy NYC’s best restaurants, sorted alphabetically and by neighborhood. Prices reflect average cost of a three-course dinner for one, excluding drinks, tax and tip. Note: Menus change frequently and seasonally, so not all items mentioned may be available at all times. $$$$ $$$ $$ $

Very Expensive ($ 60 and up) Expensive ($40-$ 60) Moderate ($30-$40) Inexpensive (under $30)

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THE GOOD LIFE BR Guest’s new president and CEO, James Gersten, at the Blue Water Grill

North End Grill Inside this Danny Meyer-owned Battery Park space, which overlooks the Hudson River, you’ll find a seafood-heavy menu that befits the classic interior. As some patrons flit between tables, others can barely tear themselves away from the butterscotch pots de creme and grilled monkfish with navy beans and watermelon. 104 North End Ave./Murray St., 646.747.1600 $$$

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Khe-Yo Executive Chef Soulayphet Schwader, partner Nick Bradley and restaurateur Marc Forgione thought that New York should get to know Laotian cuisine, so they opened Khe-Yo, which serves up items like Ping-Sai-UaMoo—grilled Laos-style

Man With a Plan Just one year into his new position as president and CEO of hospitality group BR Guest (brguesthospitality.com), James Gersten is bringing his trademark cool to contemporize some of NYC’s most-loved hot spots. –James Servin Seated like a power player at one of Blue Water Grill’s brick-red leather banquettes, James Gersten, president and CEO of BR Guest, the hospitality company that owns the Union Square landmark and 21 other restaurants, is sipping mint verbena tea and exuding calm in the face of massive responsibilities while diners around him indulge in jumbo shrimp and Champagne. He does, after all, oversee 2,000 BR Guest employees working for eateries such as Atlantic Grill, Strip House, Isabella’s, Ruby Foo’s and Hilo in the Meatpacking District, among others.

After graduating from Cornell with a business management degree in 1991, Gersten, raised on the Upper East Side by parents who loved to take him out to dinner (“Elio’s on Sundays, the Russian

Tea Room on special occasions”) was hired by Drew Nieporent to be a management trainee at Tribeca Grill and Montrachet, where he learned the business inside out. (Gersten’s least favorite job during this time, he says, was cleaning squid: “It was gross, smelly and not fun.”) Soon he netted highpowered gigs with André Balazs, Smith & Wollensky and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In 2004, Gersten created and opened La Esquina, a Mexican brasserie in Nolita—and a bona fide NYC smash.

And now, in his role at BR Guest, “I don’t come into a place and start bussing a table,” Gersten says. “I support the general managers and chefs at each restaurant and outline the focus of what customers want.”

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What are customers craving in 2015? “Soul, vision, a more intimate, more real point of view,” Gersten says, “and healthy, locally sourced, organic food.” He’s aiming to deliver.

At BR Guest, Gersten’s immediate plans include a redesign of seafood restaurant Blue Fin at the W Hotel in Times Square, halving the space to make room for a branch of Mexican eatery Dos Caminos and a tequila bar. If Blue Water Grill’s lease is renewed this fall, another renovation will ensue. “We’d keep the great bones,” Gersten says, “but make it even more special than it’s ever been—new detailing, a more jazz-clubby music venue downstairs, a better bar area. When all the elements come together, restaurants can be lightning in a bottle.”

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Atera The intimate 17-seat Atera is a showcase for Executive Chef Ronny Emborg’s ever changing prix fixe tasting menu, with small snacks like foie gras “peanuts” and main acts like ragout of fish cheeks with seaweed butter and heirloom garlic. Its two Michelin stars and a coveted three-star New York Times review make it well worth the uberlong wait for a reservation. 77 Worth St./ Broadway, 212.226.1444 $$$

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sausage with star fruit and sweet peanut sauce—and Ping-SienMoo—Berkshire spare ribs with smashed long bean and cherry tomato. You can even eat the sticky rice with your hands.

157 Duane St./Hudson St. and W. Broadway, 212.587.1089 $$ Landmarc As popular with bankers as it is with legal eagles, Landmarc offers a long list of reasonably priced wines, salads and pastas available in two sizes; $4 desserts; and a menu filled with serious crowd-pleasing entrees such as roasted bone marrow with onion marmalade, scallops and an excellent burger. Chef Marc Murphy also operates a Landmarc outpost in the Time Warner Center. 179 W. Broadway/ Leonard St., 212.343.3883 $$ Locanda Verde Chef Andrew Carmellini has achieved grand success with Locanda Verde, where he serves rustic pastas, wood-fired meats, delectable cheeses and affordable wines.

What fuels word of mouth about this place is its vibe—it’s a casual yet upscale room where chic Tribeca diners enjoy well-cooked, smartly presented food. It’s also an excellent spot for a fundraiser, as Barack and Michelle Obama can attest. 377 Greenwich St./N. Moore St., 212.925.3797 $$ Marc Forgione A winner of the Food Network’s Next Iron Chef, Marc Forgione’s hefty respect for sustainable ingredients and mastery of seafood plays out in the form of a kampachi tartare appetizer with avocado, Szechuan buttons, toasted pine nuts and Saratoga chips. Belly up to brunch here too: Sundays highlight the housemade French toast brioche. 134 Reade St./ Hudson St., 212.941.9401 $$$ Terroir Tribeca Following the success of Hearth and the original Terroir in the East Village, former Craft toque Marco Canora and Hearth

The Flavor of Summer With the season of outdoor entertaining upon us, this authentic and delicious fish taco recipe, straight from the kitchens of the Toloache restaurants (251 W. 50th St.; 166 E.82nd St.; 205 Thompson St., toloachenyc.com), is a summertime favorite of chef and Mexico City native Julian Medina.

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TACO TIME A plate of Toloache’s tacos. Clockwise from top left: Tacos de pescado (recipe below), suadero, foie gras, camaron and chapulines

Guacamole (makes 1 quart):

Baja-style fluke, spicy cabbage slaw and guacamole (Makes eight tacos) 8 pieces of crispy fluke 1/2 cup guacamole (see below) 3/4 cup spicy cabbage slaw (see below) 8 5-inch corn tortillas

Spicy Cabbage Slaw (makes 1 quart): 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1 Tbsp. chipotle puree 2 cups napa cabbage, julienned 1 cup red cabbage, chopped 1 tsp. honey 1/4 cup lime juice Kosher salt Preparation: Combine all ingredients; salt to taste.

General Manager Paul Grieco brought the popular wine-bar concept to Tribeca. Expect unknown vintners and thrilling vintages, presented with friendly explanations.

Bar bites (risotto balls, cheese and charcuterie) are designed to complement what you’re drinking.

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2 ripe Mexican Hass avocados 2 Tbsp. plum tomato, diced 2 Tbsp. Spanish onion, diced 1 Tbsp. cilantro, finely chopped 1 tsp. jalapeno, chopped and seeded 1/2 tsp. lime juice Kosher salt Preparation: Scoop the pulp out of the avocados into a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and a pinch of salt. Mash all together, leaving it chunky, and add more salt to taste.

Fluke: 3 6- to 7-ounce fluke filets 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 egg 1 1/2 cups ice water Pinch of Kosher salt Oil, for frying

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Preparation: Wash the fluke and cut the filets into 1-inch-by-2-inch pieces, then sprinkle with salt. In a medium bowl, beat the egg with the water, then add the flour and salt. In a pan, bring oil to boil at a temperature of 350F. Roll each fluke piece in the flour mixture, making sure to coat well. Place the pieces into the oil and fry until a light golden crust forms, about 5 minutes. Remove and place on a paper towel to absorb the excess oil.

To assemble tacos: Heat the griddle to a medium heat and warm the tortillas until soft. For each taco, place 1 tsp. of guacamole and 1 piece of fried fluke in the center.

Drizzle about 1 tsp. of spicy cabbage slaw over the top. Serve with lime wedge.

Tabla. 221 W. Broadway/ White St., 212.944.8378 $$$

EAST VILLAGE/ LOWER EAST SIDE Dirty French Rich Torrisi, Jeff Zalaznick and Mario Carbone had a major hit last year at Carbone with old-fashioned Italian food and tableside service. This month they’re going Gallic with a lavish bistro menu

with Creole and North African influences at Sean MacPherson’s Ludlow Hotel. 180 Ludlow St./E. Houston St., 212.254.3000 Empellón Cocina For Alex Stupak’s latest menu he casts masa—the cornmeal dough used in tacos and tortillas—in the leading role. No longer a supporting ingredient, masa takes the form of crisps for guacamole, and fettuccine with maitake mushrooms

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Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria Watch chef Roger Martinez’s open kitchen in action, and order up hearty plates like crispy artichokes, house-cured salumi and rotisserie-prepared meats— including the beloved porchetta, of course. It didn’t take long for word to get out about this Noho gem, which one night in 2012 had both Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart in the house. 53 Great Jones St./ Bowery, 212.837.2622 $$ Momofuku Ko Scoring a reservation at this 12-seat David Chang eatery may be tough, but this Michelin two-star temple will have you sampling creations such as eight-hour short ribs, braised daikon, pickled carrot and mustard seeds; as well as shaved foie gras, lychee and pine nut brittle.

Don’t fret, the extravagant lunch service makes more of those coveted bar stools available. 163 First Ave./10th St., 212.228.7293 $$$$ Motorino Motorino faced the challenge of filling the shoes, and ovens, of Una Pizza Napoletana, whose space it replaced in the East Village. The verdict is in, and it’s favorable. The coal-oven pies, topped with everything from fior di latte and smoked pancetta to soppressata and garlic, never disappoint—though the long lines may. In our opinion, definitely worth the wait. 349 E. 12th St./ First Ave., 212.777.2644 $$

exudes a charm that’s hardly necessary considering the mind-altering, ingredientworshipping wonders she produces from the tiny kitchen. Go for brunch, when the bold offerings— fried-oyster omelets and umpteen varieties of Bloody Marys—will redefine the genre as you know it. Just

be prepared to wait with the customers lining up at the door. 54 E. 1st St./First Ave., 212.677.6221 $$ Saxon + Parole Michelin-touted chef Brad Farmerie’s reimagined space takes its name from two prizewinning New York thoroughbreds

TEAM GREEN From left: Wyse Organics staffers Erik Bruun Bindslev, Allan Wyse and Analise Roland, with consultant Harry Osborn

Organics on the Go Wyse Organics (wyseorganics.com) offers prepared frozen meals cooked with seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. Model and all-around tastemaker T.R. Pescod chats with co-founders chef Allan Wyse and Erik Bruun Bindslev about crafting ready-made meals with a healthy twist. as produce becomes available from the farms we work with.

What was the inspiration behind Wyse Organics?

EBB: It was a confluence of friendship, love for cooking, organic ingredients and the East End of Long Island. Allan came to me with the idea of doing sous vide—frozen prepared meals using the best local, seasonal and organic ingredients. I loved the idea, so we founded Wyse in January of 2014.

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SOHO/NOLITA Balthazar The iconic jewel of Keith McNally’s empire remains one of the most stylish spots to relax with a cappuccino and a pain au chocolat.

The French bistro’s offerings—like duck confit—are surprisingly refined, but any desire for quiet or personal space is best checked at the door. Prepare for star sightings—you might see Victoria Beckham or Katie Holmes. 80 Spring St./ Crosby St., 212.343.1274 $$ La Esquina What’s the secreto of La Esquina?

Could it be the walk-in taqueria, with its somewhat limited menu, or the clandestine brasserie?

Either way, what you’ll encounter in the low-light subterranean space is a warmly lit lounge with a fun, insidery vibe. La Esquina’s hosted everyone from Miley Cyrus and Gisele Bündchen to Woody Harrelson and Anne Hathaway.

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Where can we buy the meals?

EBB: Directly from wyseorganics.com— we deliver weekly to NYC for orders over $100 and offer same-day delivery to homes on the East End. We’ll also be at the farmers markets in Bridgehampton, Southampton and Sag Harbor, and pop-ups at the Green Thumb, Tate’s Bake Shop and Theory in Southampton.

What makes Wyse special?

AW: We’re a quality-obsessed company that enables people to enjoy the best of the South and North Forks. You don’t have to break down the produce and be an expert chef to enjoy the bounty of the land—we do it for you.

Do you have any special suppliers who’ve inspired certain dishes?

How often do the menus change?

Prune Gabrielle Hamilton’s deceptively homey cafe

that garnered national acclaim. All bets are on the American menu, which is fittingly complemented by a bourbon-heavy cocktail program featuring the houselabel Parole whiskey. In a novel twist, barman Naren Young creates a Manhattan with whiskey and vermouth dispensed from a tap.

EBB: They change with the seasons, with special weekly dishes being offered

AW: Our goal is to provide dishes that feature the best from our suppliers, like supergreens from Green Thumb or tomatoes from Quail Hill in Amagansett. The soil is giving us such treasures; we aim to treat it with respect all the way to your plate.

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Lafayette Housed in a Noho landmark building with interiors by Roman & Williams, this handsome restaurant is an ideal setting for chef Andrew Carmellini, who put together a menu spanning different regions of French brasserie fare, like the oxtail and foie gras terrine with red cabbage and lady apple or the standout duck au poivre with organic grains, radish and smoked bacon. 380 Lafayette St./ Great Jones and Broadway, 212.533.3000 $$$

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and boiled pine nuts. The spot has quickly attracted a celebrity following, with pop-ins by Bradley Cooper, Zoë Saldana and Ashton Kutcher. 105 First Ave./6th St., 212.780.0999 $$$

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WEST VILLAGE/ GREENWICH VILLAGE Babbo Celebrity chef Mario Batali continues to enjoy gastronomic and business success with Babbo, the undisputed spicy meatball in his coast-to-coast Italiano empire. The boisterousyet-sophisticated ambience and elevated Italian classics keep this international dining destination white hot. Go, and convince your tablemates to spring for the delectable pasta tasting menu. 110 Waverly Pl./MacDougal St., 212.777.0303 $$$ Blue Hill Blue Hill chef Dan Barber has helped revolutionize the trend toward socially conscious high-end cuisine. The Greenwich Village flagship is supported by the Stone Barns partner farm upstate, from which almost all the restaurant’s produce, poultry and pork comes.

Let the kitchen take you through the tasting menu and show you the pleasures of a simple nugget of cauliflower.

75 Washington Pl./Sixth Ave., 212.539.1776 $$$ Blue Ribbon Bakery Although the breads here are indeed terrific, this is far more than a bakery.

Good luck finding better finger food (if foie gras terrine, beef marrow and a soulful duck breast can really be considered such) come 11:30 on a Saturday night. The service may be rushed, and conversation can be hard over the clattering din, but patrons never leave disappointed.

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Carbone Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick created Carbone in celebration of the ItalianAmerican eateries of the mid-20th century New York, conceiving of a simple menu of unpretentious yet refined Italian-American comfort food. For lunchtime, try Mario’s meatballs, and for dinner go for the oxtail cavitelli followed by the mixed grill cacciatore or veal parmesan. 181 Thompson St./Bleecker and W. Houston streets, 212.254.3000 $$$$ Decoy Head downstairs from RedFarm, where its proprietors have opened Decoy, a mini restaurant which features the Triple Luck, a round of three specialty sochu cocktails, which can be paired with bar snacks like the Double Duck, a grilled duck wrap served with a roast duck wrap, shrimp-stuffed jalapeño poppers or the lobster claw tempura.

529-1/2 Hudson St./Charles St., 212.792.9700 $$ Dell’Anima Since opening, this little Italian effort has prompted “Oh, you have to try” recommendations among downtown diners.

The antipasti, like duck tartare and Maine sweet shrimp crudo, signaled that chef Gabe Thompson knew how to maximize flavor, and his spaghetti with peekytoe crab and sea urchin competed for best pasta in the city. 38 Eighth Ave./ Jane St., 212.366.6633 $$ Il Mulino The service may be gruff at this hushed, hallowed temple of traditional Italian cuisine, but the food is otherworldly.

Start with the Burrata Mozzerella and tomato salad with roasted peppers; then go for the poached octopus, seafood risotto or

its many other delicacies.

86 W. 3rd St./Thompson St., 212.673.3783 $$$$ L’Artusi L’Artusi is the spot where former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn chose to celebrate his release from house arrest. We can only imagine that his menu options—orecchiette with sausage, salumi and pecorino; and outrageous sweetbreads and hanger steak with crispy potatoes and salsa bianco—were far nicer than they would have been had he ended up in prison. 228 W. 10th St./ Bleecker St., 212.255.5757 $$ Louro Chef David Santos created a host of creative modern American plates at this relaxed yet sophisticated West Village spot. Every Monday is the Nossa Mesa Supper Club, a prix fixe menu with different themes like Mid-Winter Tropical Rum-ble and Nonna’s Italian feast, where guests can BYO wine and beer.

Otherwise, dine on entrees like the kimchee prawn hot pot. 142 W. 10th St./Waverly Pl., 212.206.0606 $$$ Minetta Tavern Keith McNally packs in the cool kids and carnivores jonesing for roasted bone marrow, oxtail-and-foie gras terrine and the now-famous $28 Black Label burger, made with butcher-to-the-stars Pat LaFrieda’s 7-to-3 meat-tofat blend. If you haven’t succumbed to full cardiac arrest before leaving, take a moment to admire the lovingly preserved original murals depicting West Village life in another era.

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sum dishes, like the Katz’s pastrami egg roll, or the pork and crab soup dumplings.

For something a little more substantial, try the diced lamb with Chinese broccoli and white asparagus; or the 40-day-aged grilled, prime Creekstone bonein New York strip steak.

529 Hudson St./Charles St., 212.792.9700 $$$ The Spotted Pig April Bloomfield’s menu is a little bit Brit, a little bit Italian and a lot of comfort. Her chargrilled Roquefort burger (with rosemary shoestring fries) is tops. The restaurant doesn’t accept reservations— but then, with a fan base that includes Drew Barrymore, Kate Hudson and the Black Keys, the policy doesn’t seem to be hurting business.

314 W. 11th St./Greenwich St., 212.620.0393 $$ Tertulia After the success of Boqueria, Seamus Mullen is upping the ante with Tertulia, inspired by the Asturian cider houses he’s frequented on visits to Spain.

Amid brick, cider barrels and rustic wood touches, the snack-and-share-heavy menu features standards like Ibérico ham and pan con tomate, along with platters of chicken paella and aged prime rib with romesco and fingerling potatoes.

359 Sixth Ave./Washington Pl., 646.559.9909 $$ The Waverly Inn At this Graydon Carter-owned restaurant, it’s less about the food and more about getting past the maitre d’ to a table in the dining room.

If you manage that, you’ll find a menu of classics like New England clam chowder, tuna tartare and braised short ribs, plus an order-ifyou-dare dish of truffled macaroni and cheese, which reportedly blew Oprah

Winfrey away. 16 Bank St./ Waverly Pl., 917.828.1154 $$

MEATPACKING DISTRICT/ CHELSEA Barbuto Buzzing and bustling, Jonathan Waxman’s Mediterranean bistro brings the freshest Italian-inspired plates to a stylish crowd that appreciates the venue’s open-garage feel.

The menu changes regularly, depending on what’s in the market: Homemade pastas, crisp salads and the signature wood-fired chicken are sure bets. That goes even for “angels”—Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge is among the fans of Barbuto’s chicken. 775 Washington St./12th St., 212.924.9700 $$ Del Posto With a four-star New York Times review and many of the meat and fish dishes carved or plated tableside, a studied air of entertainment is apparent in what is yet another wildly successful partnership between Mario Batali, and Joe and Lidia Bastianich. The list of chef Mark Ladner’s pastas includes green garganelli with ragù, orecchiette with lamb-neck ragù and toasted sage. 85 Tenth Ave./16th St., 212.497.8090 $$$ Scarpetta Scott Conant has staked a claim in the Meatpacking District with Scarpetta. Though the dining room can be a tough reservation to score, both the bar area and outdoor patio serve the same menu, featuring superb appetizers like ultrarich polenta with truffled mushrooms and olive oil-braised octopus.

Pastas (duck and foie gras ravioli) are superb, and service is better than one would expect.

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GRAMERCY/ FLATIRON/ UNION SQUARE ABC Kitchen The edible options in the building are as compelling as the covetable home furnishings at ABC Carpet & Home, thanks to superchef JeanGeorges Vongerichten.

The kitchen, which won the James Beard award for Best New Restaurant of 2011, thrives on organic ingredients, and chef Dan Kluger’s talents allow them to shine in preparations such as pretzel-dusted calamari, suckling pig and wholewheat pizza. 35 E. 18th St./ Broadway, 212.475.5829 $$$

On the Waterfront Restaurateur Bruce Bernacchia’s quartet of water’s edge eateries north of the city and on the East End follow a family tradition of garden-to-table dining. –KM Bruce Bernacchia grew up cooking with his Italian grandparents, whom he credits for his love of food. “They lived out of a garden” in Yonkers, he says. “Apparently it made an impact on me.”

It was Bernacchia’s love of cooking that lured him into the restaurant business, leading him to open his first eatery, Harvest on Fort Pond, in 1994, followed by Harvest on Hudson in 1998, East by Northeast in 2002 and Half Moon in 2008. “We’ve been lucky enough to find four waterfront locations,” says Bernacchia, who splits his time between Montauk and Dobbs Ferry.

“I don’t know why I’d want to do a Main Street location when I could

355 W. 14th St./Ninth Ave., 212.691.0555 $$ Standard Grill The Standard Grill was all but a guaranteed success when it opened at the Standard Hotel in 2009. Thanks to the celeb status of hotelier

find something on the Hudson or on the water in Montauk.”

The other common thread between all four is their gardenfresh ethos. “There’s a strong farm-to-table element to it all,” Bernacchia says. “I mean, I was the only guy in college I knew with a garden.” Harvest on Hudson and Harvest on Fort Pond both have gardens, sharing their produce with Bernacchia’s other restaurants. “We grow 15 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, 15 varieties of peppers. I get all sorts of seeds from Italy, from zuccas to varieties of broccoli rabe, arugula and escarole, and we put it all to work at the restaurants,” he says. “It’s backyard-to-table.”

André Balazs, beautiful people (Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, Anna Wintour) have flocked to this restaurant. Choose from a broad array of offerings like charred Spanish octopus to “million dollar” whole roast chicken for two.

Those gardens are gearing up for summer now, and the season brings other happenings as well: Harvest on Hudson and East by Northeast both have new chefs; the latter also has a new outdoor bar and patio overlooking the water, and Half Moon’s waterfront tiki bar will be reopening in mid-May. What better way to celebrate the advent of warm weather than at the water’s edge with dinner and a cocktail? East by Northeast, 51 Edgemere St., Montauk, eastbynortheast.com; Half Moon, 1 High St., Dobbs Ferry, halfmoonhudson.com; Harvest on Fort Pond, 11 S. Emery St., Montauk, harvestfortpond.com; Harvest on Hudson, 1 River St., Hastings, harvesthudson.com

848 Washington St./W. 13th St., 212.645.4100 $$ Untitled With the Whitney Museum’s move downtown, Danny Meyer and company have relocated to the airy Renzo Piano-designed 140 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

building and are joined by Gramercy Tavern’s chef Michael Anthony, using seasonal, locally grown ingredients in frequently changing dishes with an emphasis on vegetables. 99 Gansevoort St./Washington St., 212.570.3670 $$

Blue Water Grill This seafood restaurant won’t win any awards for originality, but it’s always good for a consistent, dependable meal. The after-work bar scene hops with besuited types having drinks before being spirited away to the multilevel dining room for dishes like crispy skin Scottish salmon with wild porcino mushrooms, Chilean sea bass with sticky rice and Maine lobster bisque.

31 Union Square West/16th St., 212.675.9500 $$ The Breslin April Bloomfield—the Brit chef behind the Spotted Pig—presides over this eatery inside the Ace Hotel.

Bloomfield and her partner, music exec/restaurateur Ken Friedman, can overwhelm the senses with their noholds-barred, offalcentric menu; indulgences like the thrice-cooked fries, crispy sweetbreads and lamb burger are well worth it. A whole-pig roast is available upon special arrangement.

BERNACCHIA PHOTO BY SIMON FELDMAN

GARDEN DELIGHTS From top: Acorn-fed heritage pork belly with salsify, pomegranate molasses and baby fennel salad; Bruce Bernacchia.

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20 W. 29th St./Broadway, 212.679.1939 $$$ Eleven Madison Park Every last detail of this gorgeously vaulted Madison Square Park outpost is sumptuous and swank, and the menu has opulence to match. Swiss-born, San Francisco-expat chef (and now owner) Daniel Humm’s suckling pig may be the best in the city, and the rest of the thoughtful menu—French-inflected, with farm-fresh details like heirloom tomatoes and milk-fed veal—offers innumerable delights. 11 Madison Ave./24th St., 212.889.0905 $$$$ Gotham Bar & Grill Alfred Portale’s relentless pursuit of perfection—demonstrated by his constant tinkering with standards—has ensured him an enduring spot in the hearts of foodie loyalists citywide. Gotham’s desserts, from Pastry Chef Ron Paprocki, are especially lauded. And it boasts the distinction of being the “only restaurant to have received five consecutive three-star reviews from The New York Times.” 12 E. 12th St./Fifth Ave., 212.620.4020 $$$ Gramercy Tavern Among executive chef Michael Anthony’s divine preparations: pasture-raised chicken and sausage with chestnuts and apples, and arctic char with sweet potato, cabbage and cranberry beans. Miroslav Uskokovic’s desserts are also a delight, from peanut butter semifreddo with a chocolate macaroon and hot fudge, to cranberry brown butter cake with hazelnuts, sumac and ginger. 42 E. 20th St./ Broadway, 212.477.0777 $$$ The NoMad The NoMad threw open its doors in the

NoMad Hotel in 2011, presided over by Daniel Humm and Will Guidara from Eleven Madison Park. Centered around a glass-enclosed atrium, The NoMad is a multiroom space that offers a specially curated wine program and chef Humm’s signature dishes—like suckling pig confit with pears, cabbage and mustard—that are anything but simple.

1170 Broadway/28th St., 212.796.1500 $$$$ SD26 The authentic Italian ingredients showing up on patrons’ plates burst with flavor, and touches like a salumeria where meats are sliced before your eyes and a front bar where self-serve Enomatic dispensers allow oenophiles to try wines by the glass prove this establishment is respectful of the past, but has its gaze fixed firmly on the future.

19 E. 26th St./Madison Ave., 212.265.5959 $$$

MURRAY HILL/ KIPS BAY Artisanal Addictively snacky gougères and an array of fondues (from classic Swiss to Stilton and sauternes) made with cheese straight from the on-site aging cave satisfy cravings en route to predictably well-executed classics like duck confit and steak frites. Be sure not to skip dessert, which is shockingly good, as is the selection of 160 wines by the glass. 2 Park Ave./32nd St., 212.725.8585 $$$ Marta Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group and Maialino chef Nick Anderer’s restaurant in the Martha Washington Hotel features thin-crust pizzas from a wood-burning oven, a wood-fire grill,

and Roman specialties.

29 E. 29th St./Madison Ave., 212.651.3800 $$ Salvation Taco April Bloomfield went beyond the gastropub fare that earned her Michelin stars to open Salvation Taco with her partner, Ken Friedman. The taqueria and cantina serves up a menu of reinterpreted Mexican favorites like the kimchee and pork bell pozole, tacos with braised lamb shoulder, and tamarind glazed pork shank with soy pickled garlic and cilantro. 145 E. 39th St./Lexington and Third avenues, 212.865.5800 $$

MIDTOWN EAST “21” Club Opened on New Year’s Eve in 1929, this onetime speakeasy (complete with secret wine cellar) has long been a favorite of politicos like Govs. Mario and Andrew Cuomo; Mayors Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg; and Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. When there, go for the Dover sole, a signature dish prepared by chef John Greeley, and stay for the people-watching.

21 W. 52nd St./Fifth Ave., 212.582.7200 $$$$ Casa Lever Backed by Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Pauli, the minds (and money) behind Sant Ambroeus, Casa Lever features original Andy Warhol paintings that look down on patrons enjoying Milanese-style crudos, risottos, pastas, meats and whole grilled fish. The place, which evokes the late 1960s/ early 1970s, has attracted the likes of Alec Baldwin, Jon Hamm and Chris Rock. 390 Park Ave./53rd St., 212.888.2700 $$$$ 141 M ANHATTAN M AY 2015

The Four Seasons This landmark venue has been shifting with the seasons decades before “seasonal” became a calling card of hot new chefs. Every 12 weeks, chef Pecko Zantilaveevan presents a new array of seasonal offerings, alongside perennial pleasers like the renowned crisp farmhouse duck. Since its opening in 1959, artwork from modern masters like Picasso, Joan Miró and Jackson Pollock have decorated the walls.

99 E. 52nd St./Park Ave., 212.754.9494 $$$$ La Grenouille Even more precious now that those vestiges of fine French dining La Côte Basque, Lutèce and La Caravelle are but memories, La Grenouille is a place every Manhattanite needs to experience at least once. In this era of pan-everything fusion cuisine, there’s something comforting about chateaubriand and oeufs a la neige served by a waiter who’s not pursuing an acting career. 3 E. 52nd St./Fifth Ave., 212.752.1495 $$$$ Le Cirque Though the current, relocated version in the supermod One Beacon Court on the eastern fringes of midtown is a far cry from its former elegant home at the Palace Hotel, regulars remain loyal and true to its consummate host, Sirio Maccioni.

The overwrought and froufrou food matches the restaurant’s circuslike decor, but there’s still something thrilling about Maccioni welcoming you at the door.

151 E. 58th St./Lexington Ave., 212.644.0202 $$$$ Michael’s Apart from the food, what keeps media VIPs like Barbara Walters and Charlie Rose coming back is the trademark welcome

of Michael McCarty, who opened the place in 1989.

For the best view of the action, secure a table in the front room (though it may take more than a few visits to land such favored treatment). 24 W. 55th St./ Fifth Ave., 212.767.0555 $$$ Monkey Bar Expect plenty of monkey business at this famed New York eatery, which was bought by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and partners.

Opened during the Great Depression, the bar is located in the Hotel Elysée, haunt of bygone boldfacers Tallulah Bankhead and Tennessee Williams. These days, Monkey Bar capitalizes on its midcentury glory with a clubby feel and a comprehensive menu.

60 E. 54th St./Madison Ave., 212.308.2950 $$

MIDTOWN WEST Ai Fiori Ai Fiori is giving chef Michael White, with his delectable pastas and succulent seafood, an ideal showcase for his talents.

Taking inspiration from Italy and France, White’s dinner menu stars lobster soup with Périgord black truffles and chervil. Follow it with the tender, wild striped bass with fennel puree and almonds, or the duck confit with marsala. 400 Fifth Ave./37th St., 212.613.8660 $$$ Bar Americain If you’re looking for a sophisticated Southern brunch, this Midtown eatery from New York-born Bobby Flay is a peach. Local power brokers and NYC visitors mix well here, drawn to sauced-tothe-max dishes like poached eggs with Cajun hollandaise and sweet potato-crusted smoked-chicken potpie.

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Also a draw is the daily raw bar, which features yellowtail, oysters and wild salmon. 152 W. 52nd St./ Sixth Ave., 212.265.9700 $$$ Kingside Enter the Viceroy and into the Kingside for a menu designed by chef Marc Murphy that fuses together food memories from his childhood, his French heritage, Italian roots, American education and his love of travel in entrees like the brick-roasted poussin with winter squash, farro and mustard greens, and desserts like the Kingside Sundae, with meringue, hot fudge and brandied cherries. 124 W. 57th St./ Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212.707.8000 $$$ Le Bernardin Considered by most the ne plus ultra of French fine dining in New York, Eric Ripert’s elegant midtown seafood shrine offers a level of perfection in the city’s cuisine scene. His delicate, meticulously crafted culinary works of art show hints of genius; the service is balletic; and sommelier Aldo Sohm happens to be the best in the world (just ask him). 155 W. 51st St./Seventh Ave., 212.554.1515 $$$$ Estiatorio Milos Seafood doesn’t get much fresher than this. Select your fish from the Milos Market, after which it will be sent to the kitchen and prepared to your specifications. Paying by the pound, you might experience a bit of sticker shock when the bill arrives, so if you want to keep the tab manageable, take care that your eyes aren’t bigger than your wallet. 125 W. 55th St./Sixth Ave., 212.245.7400 $$$$ The Plaza Food Hall and the Todd English Food Hall This isn’t your average food court; it is at the Plaza,

after all. Here, you’ll find a host of New York favorites in one spot, from cupcakes at Billy’s Bakery to No. 7 Sub’s famous sandwiches.

In the Todd English Food Hall, you’ll find nine food stations, like the Ocean Grill & Oyster Bar, Pasta Bar and Sushi Bar, conceived by the celebrity chef.

768 Fifth Ave./W. 59th St., 212.986.9260 $$$

UPPER EAST SIDE Arlington Club Surf meets turf at chef Laurent Tourondel and Tao Group’s Upper East Side steakhouse, but not in the traditional manner; French technique is imbued in a menu where toro can be ordered with the signature 28-day, dry-aged côte de bœuf for two. On the first Friday of every month, you can enjoy live music as you dine in the beaux-arts space. 1032 Lexington Ave./E. 74th St., 212.249.5700 $$$$ Café Boulud Communal tables and rich wood paneling set the scene here. Choose from a menu offering La Tradition (asparagus with poached egg and lardons) and Le Voyage (Thai lobster with coconut-lemongrass sauce and green papaya), along with specialties like butterpoached halibut. It’s less formal than Boulud’s haute cuisine temple Daniel, but still a treat savored by those like John and Teresa Kerry. 20 E. 76th St./Fifth Ave., 212.772.2600 $$$ Daniel In New York, there are only seven restaurants with three Michelin stars and only five with four stars from The New York Times. The notoriously exacting Daniel Boulud

swept up both honors with his seasonal, contemporary French tasting menu.

From the moment you pass through its revolvingdoor entrance, you’re transported into a culinary haven where the service and food are unparalleled.

60 E. 65th St./Madison Ave., 212.288.0033 $$$$ Sant Ambroeus This Upper East Side version of a restaurant by the same name in Milan is a charming neighborhood spot favored by the likes of art gallerist Larry Gagosian. Sant Ambroeus serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, which means you can order griddle pancakes with blueberry compote, sugar-coated apples and fresh fruit, or—later—spelt spaghetti with clams, fava beans and spicy cherry tomatoes.

1000 Madison Ave./E. 79th St., 212.570.2211 $$$ Sirio Ristorante Celebrated high-society restaurateur Sirio Maccioni traveled back to his childhood in Tuscany for his eponymous eatery, located in the Pierre. Imagine you’re in the middle of a Fellini film while dining on dishes like the homemade burrata and truffle-stuffed tortelloni with porcini mushroom ragu and Parmesan foam. At $125, the chef’s grand seven-course tasting menu is a worthwhile deal. 795 Fifth Ave./E. 61st St., 212.940.8195 $$$

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the restaurant’s impeccable terrines, which are created under the guidance of Master Charcutier Gilles Verot and are the true stars of an otherwise wellexecuted but unsurprising menu. 1900 Broadway/64th St., 212.595.0303 $$$ Dovetail Creations like duck confit with Brussels sprouts (also available as part of the $58 Sunday Suppa) attract business suits, couples and a mature neighborhood crowd.

But if you’re more inclined to duck the duck in favor of meatless fare, check out the Monday night vegetarian menu, which showcases dishes such as hen-ofthe-woods mushrooms with delicata squash, barley and quail eggs.

103 W. 77th St./Columbus Ave., 212.362.3800 $$$ Jean-Georges The classical French foundation, combined with the kitchen’s international passion for new flavors and combinations, makes Jean-Georges one of New York’s most sought-after eating experiences. The lush redesign makes it even grander than the original, while the front barroom, Nougatine, is more than welcoming to single diners and visitors who can’t get tables in back.

1 Central Park West/60th St., 212.299.3900 $$$$ Masa Tongues wagged over whether an eatery with a $450 prix fixe menu could possibly survive, but a decade later, Masa continues to attract patrons with a robust love for sushi. Though only a few tables are available, the action is at the bar, where you’ll be taken for a multicourse thrill ride featuring Masa Takayama’s iconoclastic take on raw

fish. Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle/58th St., 212.823.9800 $$$$ Per Se West Coast import Thomas Keller brings the bankers and go-forbroke gourmands to Time Warner Center en masse.

The $310 multicourse main event in the dining room is still a thing of beauty; but it’s also a treat to have access to cannellini bean agnolotti or butter-poached Nova Scotia lobster for a mere 40 bucks in the bar area. Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle/58th St., 212.823.9335 $$$$

HARLEM The Cecil Richard Parson and chef Alexander Smalls fused together Asian, African and American cuisines to open the Cecil. Smalls reflected on his travels when creating menu items that include the cinnamon-scented Guinea hen. The Afro/Asian/ American gumbo, with smoked turkey, Chinese chicken sausage, Gulf shrimp and crabmeat, is no doubt one of the Cecil’s stars.

210 W. 118th St./St. Nicholas Ave., 212.866.1262 $$ Red Rooster Chef-owner Marcus Samuelsson left some of his Nordic tendencies to open this Harlem spot. Bill Clinton, whose office is nearby, is a regular, and President Obama held a benefit here last year. The diverse menu pays homage to Samuelsson’s Ethiopian background, Swedish upbringing and current neighborhood, and the soulful dishes and delicious drinks are already ushering in a Harlem renaissance.

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JOSEPH ABBOUD GRAND OPENING Midtown East Manhattan magazine co-hosted the grand opening of Joseph Abboud’s flagship store at 424 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. More than 300 fashionable men and women celebrated with cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres, while enjoying beats by DJ Laurent Caillet.

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FROM AUSTRIA, WITH LOVE Karl Lagerfeld brought Salzburg to life at Chanel’s pre-fall 2015 collection. Staged amid a candlelit rococo-style salon at the Park Avenue Armory, the show’s whimsical garments channeled Austrian royalty and Tyrolian classics—think ruffled collars, military-style capelets, feathered hats and, of course, lederhosen. The presentation was followed by an afterparty with a duet by Pharrell Williams and Cara Delevingne.

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At Aussie lighting designer Nathan Orsman’s 40th birthday bash at Catch’s rooftop, the who’s who guest list of the design and media worlds included Brendan Monaghan, David Scott and Pippa Cohen. In honor of the birthday boy’s art form, we asked his guests to share their favorite type of mood lighting.

STEVEN HORN, VP of global retail at Joe Fresh “If I’m in the mood, then you better keep the lights off!”

JOSE CASTRO, VP of global retail sales at Nickelodeon “My favorite is a lower light, but not so low as to annoy people. You know someone’s overdone it when half the room takes out their cellphones to read a menu.”

THOM FILICIA, interior designer “Well-thought-out and well-executed lighting makes my soul happy.”

Scott Currie

Vegemite-style birthday cake

Dennis Basso, Nathan Orsman and Michael Cominotto

KRISTINE JOHNSON, news anchor “At my age, I prefer anything with a dimmer.”

T.R. Pescod, Lisa Bowles and Steven Gambrel

JAMIE DRAKE, interior designer “Candles are my favorite way to create a fun and flirty mood.”

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John Alexander

Kate, Jules and Halley Feiffer and guest

APRIL GORNIK, artist “Generous vision is the best part of Guild Hall.”

Nicole Miller

ERIC FISCHL, artist “It’s my birthday and I’m here and not anywhere else—that’s how much the Academy means to me. What a significant and creative world the East End is.”

Ruth Appelhof, Eric Fischl, Laurie Anderson, Ralph Gibson, Mary Jane Marcasiano and Marty Cohen

MARTIN SHORT, actor and comedian “What I love most about Matthew is that he’s not afraid to punch someone else’s kid.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK, actor “Guild Hall is such a good theater—it makes the Hamptons even richer.”

Julie and Billy Macklowe

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JULES FEIFFER, cartoonist “There’s something in the atmosphere, something in the air of the East End, which creates a kind of both calm and energy.”

Guild Hall, the storied visual and performing arts center in East Hampton, held its annual Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards, which this year honored actor Matthew Broderick, artist Ralph Gibson and cartoonist Jules Feiffer. Attendees shared their thoughts with us on what they admire most about the center and its current honorees.

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DANNY MEYER TAKE A LOOK AT THE LEGENDARY RESTAUR ATEUR, FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE UNION SQUARE HOSPITALITY GROUP, BY THE NUMBERS.

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Meyer’s age. He was born on March 14, 1958, in St. Louis, Mo.

Number of Shake Shacks worldwide, including locations in London, Dubai and Moscow.

Shake Shack was originally founded in 2004 as a food kiosk in Madison Square Park.

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$1.6 billion

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Age Meyer co-won the Chef’s Cap competition at Camp Nebagamon in Wisconsin; he made a lemon chicken in a Dutch oven cooked underneath coals and a layer cake baked on a reflector oven using fire as the heat source.

$250 Meyer’s weekly salary as an assistant restaurant manager at Pesca in 1984, after he left a $125,000-per-year sales job to enter the restaurant industry. He’d graduated with a degree in political science from Trinity College in 1980.

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Year Meyer launched his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe.

The iconic eatery, which has been ranked No. 1 by Zagat nine times, will move from its original location at 21 E. 16th St. in December due to a rent increase.

“Hospitality is king. The trend that is never going to go out of style is that when people go to a restaurant, they go there to be restored. It’s not just how a restaurant nourishes people but how it nurtures people. The emotional experience is everything.”

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Number of restaurants Meyer oversees, including Gramercy Tavern and Maialino; the latter— which means “little pig” in Italian and serves Roman fare with an emphasis on pork—is christened after a nickname Meyer was given by co-workers while he worked as a summer docent in Italy. They called him maialino because he always ordered suckling pig from his favorite trattoria.

Number of Michelin stars Meyer’s restaurant Eleven Madison Park received in October 2011, one of only five restaurants in the city to receive the designation.

Meyer sold the restaurant to its chef, Daniel Humm, and general manager, Will Guidara, a month later.

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Valuation of Shake Shack, according to the New York Stock Exchange. In the last four years, the restaurant chain more than quadrupled its annual revenue to $83.7 million from $19.5 million.

Meyer owns 21 percent of Shake Shack shares, making his post-IPO net worth around $340 million.

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Number of James Beard awards in culinary excellence Union Square Hospitality Group has won

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Average number of pounds of ribs Meyer’s Blue Smoke serves during the annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, which takes place June 13 to 14 in Madison Square Park

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Number of children Meyer has with his wife, Audrey, whom he met while they were both working at Pesca. Their eldest daughter, Hallie, was part of a team that won the 2012 Iron Chef competition at Yale University with a dish of mushroom sformato and steamed cod.

PHOTO BY GREGG DELLMAN; QUOTE FROM ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2005

Meyer’s age during a family trip to France, where his parents made him keep a diary. He only wrote about the food he enjoyed, including quiche Lorraine, fraises des bois and creme fraiche.

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SARTORIALLY SPEAKING Patricia Field, the Emmy-winning fashion visionary who famously outfitted Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City, returns to the spotlight this season as costume consultant for Younger, the TV Land hit written and produced by SATC creator and Field’s longtime collaborator Darren Star. After almost 50 years on the fashion scene—her eponymous shop first opened in Greenwich Village in 1966 (it’s now located at 306 Bowery)—the flame-haired icon reflects on what she’s learned from her hardworking mother and growing up in NYC. PAT AND THE CITY Patricia “Pat” Field, seen here with one of her two poodles, was just 24 years old when she opened her first boutique in 1966. Today, the Manhattan-born, Queens-bred stylist and fashion and costume designer calls the Lower East Side home.

My first real job was at a discount department store named Alexander’s— which is no longer in business, but would be like today’s Century 21—in this bad neighborhood in South Bronx. It was the first Alexander’s in the city, and it was in the ghetto. I would drive my Sunbeam Alpine, the same little red sports car that Elizabeth Taylor drove when she played a prostitute in the movie Butterfield 8.

That was my car. So I’d come to work in my little Sunbeam Alpine and my little designer suit that I bought for a cheap price at Loehmann’s (which was definitely the Century 21 of its time) and I’d drive into South Bronx.

But I was born and bred in New York so I was never afraid. It was just another neighborhood.

People are too serious in fashion right now (which is true about TV too; it’s all about war and violence and government corruption). And some designers are in a bubble and not actually living in the world of fashion. They live in an imaginary, fictional, glamorous world—but it’s not real. That’s because we don’t produce clothes here, we produce in China, or wherever. The production process is an important ingredient; it’s nutrition for a designer’s creativity.

A trend that I really wish would go away? Depression-era clothing. Normcore, blend-in—whatever you want to call it.

There’s nothing chic about it. It doesn’t fit. It looks faded. It’s got no edge to it. If you ever see me in dark colors I’ll still be wearing little red shoes. You need to give things a kick in the ass.

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I didn’t really think about it at the time, but even growing up I had my own style. I had my own tastes, and my tastes were also extended to my friends. My mom had a tendency to want to dress me a certain way, but I was like, “No. I want those $3.99 shoes from Miles Shoes.”

That’s not to say my mom was old-school; she was a woman ahead of her time. She was a working mother who owned a dry-cleaning business—I lost my father when I was about 7 years old, so she was my example and I learned a lot from her.

She dressed in a way that I’d describe as simple, tailored—she’d buy slacks and jackets from the Sears and Roebuck catalogues, so nothing ostentatious.

She liked to take me to Bloomingdale’s (we lived in the East 70s until my father died), and her thing was to buy me cashmere sweaters. I went along with it; I didn’t care, really. But I remember going to a Madison Avenue Burberry because I wanted this particular trench coat, and this was in addition to wanting the $3.99 sneakers from Miles Shoes.

I was doing the high-low thing before it was a thing.

Eventually we moved to Whitestone, Queens, which is where I grew up. There’s such a difference between the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. You can hear the Queens in the accent. Debi Mazar [one of the stars of Younger] is from Queens, and I’ve known her since she was about 15. When I had my shop on 8th Street she was one of the kids who was always around. She used to do my hair in my apartment, and then she started working with Madonna.

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