Food & Drink
Italian for Beginners
SBE’s new Italian marketplace/restaurant.
SBE’s new Italian marketplace/restaurant.
Get your sanity back with a team of task-busting miracle workers.
It’s kitchen unconfidential at SBE executive chef Danny Elmaleh’s Italian food mecca, which has three open kitchens where diners can watch their orders go from raw ingredients to expertly composed dishes. An upstairs bar with romantic lighting is sure to be a hit with swingles.
So long, summer. Miko’s Italian Ice transforms in honor of colder weather to come.
In the winter, Miko’s Italian Ice walk-up window transforms into Miko’s Flipside, a charming, bite-size cafe serving William von Hartz’s home cooking: focaccia, mac ’n’ cheese, rosemary-goat cheese puff pastry, and curry cookies. Sip on Valrhona cocoa, coffee, and hot cider, too.
Load up the Kindle.
Tocca products you won’t want to burn.
The cult-followed beauty brand returns to its ready-to-wear roots with Australian-born designer Emma Fletcher (formerly of Lyell) pulling the threads. Score feminine, buttoned-up separates, knits, and lingerie, as well as the candles, cosmetics, and fragrances you know and love.
Relax a whole new way at home.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Get truckin’ to a mobile food fest and take in the sights of Fashion Week.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: International bites, free music, and studio tours.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: A Frenchie music fest, the sausage craze hits Venice, and an ode to 1980s art.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Fun with dogs and discounted furnishings for charity.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Mulberry & Me dresses you for fall, and Design Harvest returns.
Use your beloved smartphone for something more than fun and games.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Fancy gadget coverings, psychic fortune cookies, bow-tie necklaces, and more.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Drink in Central Park, get hot with some chiles, and feel the music in your soul.
Chipper aestheticians wax, tint, thread, and airbrush your body into blissful oblivion at Benefit’s first stand-alone boutique in NYC. Tip: The candy-colored flagship turns out some of the best brows every side of Broadway.
Temptingly soft and salty wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza topped with smoky Italian meats and molten cheese made by smokin’ Italian owner Luca Arrigoni.
Now closed.
Drink legally in Central Park at Fatty Crew’s (’Cue, Crab) mobile operation, now serving beer, wine, and prosecco along with pulled pork sliders and smoked chicken salad sandwiches.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Vintage shopping, a Pearl Jam documentary, and a Rosh Hashanah feast.
Sept. 29- Oct. 2: Serious pizza in the Design District, a performance where you’re the art, and vintage-inspired jewelry.
The Morris Lapidus-designed resort has been restored to its original 1950s grandeur with a floating staircase, renowned restaurants, and ultra-glam guest rooms. This is where locals and tourists come for a needed dose of luxury.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Party in (former) City Hall, shop at MODA, and ask yourself, “What would Lassie do?”
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Kehinde Wiley hosts a barbecue, and Michael Moore discusses his new book.
The family-friendly, retro-styled diner has an accessible sense of humor. Shows from the Golden Age of TV are projected on a wall; the all-day Big Mark Breakfast comes with house-made tarts; and nine boozy milk shakes, such as the minty Dirty Girl Scout, are served thick-thick.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Peep leaves by boat, chow like a cowboy, and decompress with farm-fresh spa treatments.
29 Sept.-2 Oct.: Trippy art, fresh food, Hello Kitty stuff and perfume fit for a (future) queen.
You’ll find ready-to-wear, bespoke and home fragrances at British perfumer Michael Boadi’s Mayfair store. Since Kate Middleton wore his White Gardenia Petals to her wedding, you can expect everything in the store to be fit for a (future) queen.
Stick it to dessert.
Say oui to Parisian-style desserts.
Taking inspiration from Mexican paletas (fresh fruit ice pops) Kaileigh Brielle created the “sucksicle” — gourmet, all-natural popsicles in inspired flavors like cantaloupe, apple cider, and grapefruit jalapeno. The shop (awesome name, BTW) also sells gluten-free baked goods, old-fashioned candy, and raw chocolate truffles. Consider us sucketeers.
Clean up your act with a new, local organic juice company.
Watch the grueling interview we put her through.
Cure your toes’ seasonal woes.
Learn to love a crowded space.
Bake your pie and eat it, too.
A boutique owner starts her own fashion line, makes good.
Take a trip with worldly jewelry of leather, beads, and stones.
Find the designer’s globally inspired necklaces and bracelets at her little shop in Temescal Alley.
A vintage furniture stash that’s not for the faint of heart.
Brighten up your kitchen and office with a little help from a Chicago designer.
Dress them in all-cotton undies that don’t bunch, creep, or crawl into cracks.
Extra extras: the perfect additions to any outfit.
Sleek wool cover-ups and jackets to keep you cozy.
A sweet spot on Sunset Drive.
Weather the cold with not-so-basic basics.
After building a reputation as the go-to lady for guava cakes, owner Patty Arango opened her first brick-and-mortar shop, selling everything from sandwich cookies and cake pops to gourmet breads and baked empanadas. Each menu item is made by Arango daily with natural ingredients (meaning your banana cupcake is made with real bananas).
Skip the Hulk syndrome and shine brighter.
Find wedding and engagement rings, statement baubles, watches, cool gifts for men and women, and custom works at the popular jeweler, catering to everyone from socialites to hipsters to clueless men.