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September 5, 2010 By cheryl

Hotel Delmano: The Last Toast of Summer


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Labor Day weekend in the City and it can feel as if the world has fled to the beach.

For the less privileged, this is prime playtime in New York, however — packed restaurants are emptier, exclusive bars suddenly become accessible.

With Hurricane Earl nowhere in sight, the sky is a saturated cerulean; a light breeze cuts through the waning warmth. We are in Williamsburg, my writer friend Mr. B and I, for an afternoon of nursing our disappointments at not being at a beach ourselves. But mostly, to catch up on this Writing thing that we do.

“I want you to check out this bar,” he says, “I think you’d really like it.”

And so we find ourselves sliding into seats outside the Hotel Delmano, watching the too-hip rompers and ankle boots and tousled-just-so hairdos amble by.

The thing here is the cocktails. It’s mid-afternoon — but a holiday weekend, we reason — so we decide to oblige …

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Filed Under: Boites, Brooklyn, Cocktails, New York, Restaurants Tagged With: Amy Tan, Beach, Brooklyn, Cocktails, Coriander, Drinks, Elderflower liqueur, Fernet-Branca, Gin, Hemingway, Hotel Delmano, James Baldwin, Jamon Serrano, Keith McNally, Lemon, Milk & Honey, Mint, Odeon, Pastis, San Francisco, St. Germain, St. Helen's, Thyme, Vodka, Williamsburg

June 18, 2009 By cheryl

Paris: The Tried And True


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The upside to visiting Paris with a first-timer: The excuse to retread paths well worn.

There is the Angelina chocolat chaud yet undrunk, the freshly baked Poilane pains undiscovered. 

The sister, she has come to Paris with guidebooks well-marked and images of Amelie’s Montmartre flitting through her head. But first, the basics must be covered; important stops must be made.

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Filed Under: Boites, Food Porn, France, Restaurants, Sweets, Tales From the Road Tagged With: A Moveable Feast, Amelie, Angelina, Barack Obama, Berthillon, Brasserie Lipp, Cafe Flore, Cervelas, Ernest Hemingway, Hacques Chirac, Ice-cream, Île Saint-Louis, Laduree, Les Deux Magots, Louis Vuitton, Macaroons, Mon Vieil Ami, Montmartre, Paris, Poilane, Seine, St. Germain

June 12, 2009 By cheryl

La Derniere Goutte (And A Lovely Discovery)


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When in Paris, we wanted to do as the Parisians do.

Or rather, given our limited French, what some expats in Paris do.

And so we found ourselves wandering the streets of St. Germain in search of La Derniere Goutte, a little wine shop my friend Barbra, a former and soon-to-be-again Parisian, had recommended.

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Filed Under: Food Porn, France, Tales From the Road Tagged With: Escargot, La Derniere Goutte, Macaroons, Montpellier, Paris, St. Germain, Vignobles Orliac, Wine

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