13. Les Halles When you’re tired of sweets and cappuccino, Les Halles will dish up hearty and delicious French brasserie fare to get you through that Excel spreadsheet. Just make sure you keep one hand free for the decadently messy Hamburger Rossini topped with foie gras terrine and red wine dip. Locations: 15 John Street […]

Now that the weather offers reason enough to smile and the sun sticks around past 5pm, an excuse for a day spent entirely inside is hard to come by. Though I dearly loved those winter weekdays spent curled up with Taleggio and a bowl of bacon-y stew, listening to the wind howl outside my 5th […]

I met Celest at Think, one of our favorite casual meet-up spots, for coffee on Saturday afternoon. I wanted to finally see her photos and get the details on her Parisian adventure; she needed to hear the latest on the Italiano (good: he helped me through a recent mouse-spotting crisis at my house/ bad: I’m not wild about […]