FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

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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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

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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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

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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Retail

Saipua

Photo: Mindy Best

Saipua

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 »

Features

Cordato’s Deli

Photo: Staff

Hidden and Hipster-Free

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 »

Craig Thompson

Photo: Tuukka Koski

The Sweet Life

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 »

Blog

A sample photo from Things Organized Neatly

Photo: Things Organized Neatly

Things Organized Neatly

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 »

Sarah Ryhanen, Eric Famisan with architect Jeremy Barbour

Photo: Mindy Best

Saipua: First Look

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 »

Lubalin Now

Photo: Cooper Union, Designed by Justin Thomas Kay

Lubalin Now

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 »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

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,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The 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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