At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.
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Photo: Tuukka Koski
At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.
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Photo: Michael A. Muller
The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…
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Photo: Michael A. Muller
On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…
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Photo: Mindy Best
Off of what you might call the main drag in Red Hook, Van Brunt Street, there are dozens of anonymous warehouses and garages. One of these, however, is not at… read more »
PDT, La Esquina, Milk & Honey…secret bars and restaurants are scattered all over the city. But let’s face it; these unmarked or “underground” places aren’t so secret anymore. In fact,… read more »

Photo: Tuukka Koski
It’s a cool and rainy day in the Catskills (worthy of a Rip Van Winkle nap), but the oven keeps baker Craig Thompson’s cottage toasty and warm. The country home… read more »
We always admired the way Monocle and Wallpaper styled their product shoots. Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison’s Super Normal exhibition arranged various objects in a similar manner. Donald… read more »

Photo: Mindy Best
We’ve been fans of Saipua for a long time, counting on their bountiful floral arrangements for every special occasion and impressing guests with fine soaps. We’re pleased to share with… read more »
From magazines, band logos to Gossip Girl, Avant Garde is probably the most popular font Herb Lubalin designed. Fortunately that’s not all Lubalin is known for, his design contributions from… read more »
From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…
Read MoreThe Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…
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