The other night I was out with a couple of friends, Lostplum and Alejandra (anyone who follows any of us on Twitter already knows all about it).  It was a girl’s night out in the classic sense.  We went to an easygoing local bar with too-strong drinks and good food.   The plan was to [...]

First let me say that that title is misleading.  The kind of place I’m talking about here isn’t always a bistro.  Sometimes it is.  But sometimes it’s not. Most neighborhoods in NYC have a great local restaurant that also happens to have a spacious bar area.  The kind of place that you’d feel comfortable going to [...]

I live in NYC and if there’s one thing we do well, here, it’s make people feel excluded. There are so many different places to go, so many different things to do, but there’s always going to be a shortlist of the hottest, hardest to get into bars and clubs (there are plenty of places [...]

I will eventually get down to giving you the names of some of my favorite places to go for dates.  For first dates and for 2nd, 3rd… dates (which I’m really excited about).  But for these first few posts I’m just laying the ground work. Speaking of groundwork, let’s talk about what I think makes a [...]

I live in NYC and if there’s one thing we do well, here, it’s make people feel excluded. There are so many different places to go, so many different things to do, but there’s always going to be a shortlist of the hottest, hardest to get into bars and clubs (there are plenty of places [...]