Food & Drink

OMG. Dance Party 411, y’all

OMG. Dance Party 411, y’all

By January 27, 2011 Activities | Bars | New York

The start to a great weekend begins with a great cocktail. Thanks to the able hands of bartenders at Bar Pleiades (Yeah, I don’t know how to pronounce that either.)…
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Chance Encounters (and Drinks to Follow)

Chance Encounters (and Drinks to Follow)

By January 25, 2011 Bars | New York

As New Yorkers, hustling like little ants in vain efforts to Go! Be! Do! Win! Play! Rest! Now!Now!NOW!, we burrow through a modern day ant farm, plowing diligently (as little…
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Sexy In The City

Sexy In The City

By January 8, 2011 Activities | Best Of | Buenos Aires | New York | Restaurants | Travel

No, not this city. Hard to feel sexy when, with a puffer, jeans and boots, I still can’t feel my legs. Just back from Buenos Aires, I realize that it’s…
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Tequila!

Tequila!

By December 12, 2010 Bars | Happy Hour | New York | Theater

Ok, show of hands- who has been laid up with bronchitis and other odd ailments for the past four weeks? It can’t be just me- I’ve heard those coughs on…
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Dinner At Eight, Darlings

Dinner At Eight, Darlings

By November 25, 2010 Cooking | Food & Drink | New York

While this Girl Around Town usually lauds those things going on (ahem) around town, sitting down to a table full of food was on everyone’s mind last week and with…
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Life is a Cabaret

Life is a Cabaret

By October 30, 2010 Bars | Celebrity | Clothes | Entertainment | Events | Lounges | New York | TV & Film

I have this dream of taking the stage as Sally Bowles. Yes, that’s Liza from the best musical of all time, Cabaret. Maybe it’s only in a community theater production….
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Super Powers: Date Night

Super Powers: Date Night

By September 16, 2010 Accessories | New York | Restaurants

In case you didn’t know, Girls Around Town possess superpowers and mine happens to be the ability to toss out restaurant suggestions faster than a speeding bullet. (And here you…
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Gluten-Free-For-All

Gluten-Free-For-All

By August 31, 2010 Health | Lifestyle | New York | Restaurants

If someone told me I couldn’t eat pizza, sandwiches, bagels or drink beer, I’d cry. And then punch them. And if were a gluten allergy, not just my muffin top,…
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New York a la Bourdain

New York a la Bourdain

By August 10, 2010 Anthony Bourdain | Bars | Lounges | New York | Restaurants

I finished Kitchen Confidential this week and fortunately my reprint edition (P.S. edition by Ecco/Harper Collins) included his essay, “Alternative Guide to Drinking and Eating in New York“, which originally…
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Midtown’s Cocktail Corridor

Midtown’s Cocktail Corridor

By July 23, 2010 Bars | Clothes | Food & Drink | Lounges | New York

Ok, so Midtown might be the single most unsexy neighborhood on the island but it does serve a purpose, an important one. No, not because it’s where your job/income generating…
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