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…
Read MoreWalking into Le Labo’s boutique on Elizabeth Street is a welcome antidote to the hard-selling atmosphere of any New York City department store’s fragrance section. read more »

Photo: Mindy Best
Step into Ale et Ange and you feel like you’ve stepped into your best friend’s apartment… That is, if your best friend is a clothing designer with a fondness for… read more »
James is nestled in the Prospect Heights neighborhood on the corner of St. Marks and Carlton Avenue, tucked inside a century-old brownstone. read more »

Photo: Rose Callahan
One afternoon in late winter, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, the brotherly design duo behind half a dozen New York City restaurants and shops including the Manhattan Inn, duckduck and Goat… read more »

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. read more »

Photo: Jordan Provost
Alex Calderwood has a history of turning nothing into something. He looks at unloved and abandoned spaces with an optimistic eye, seeing potential to infuse them with new life, art,… read more »

Photo: Mindy Best
We visited Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. in late 2010 and kick started this year with a feature on the wood sculptor based in Kingston, New York. read more »
Nylon stalactites. Biomorphic spice sacks. Pools of plastic balls. These are some ways to begin describing Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s installation, Anthropodio, that launches Park Avenue Armory’s series of site-specific… read more »
Ferran Adrià has been compared to Salvador Dali and Picasso of the food world. His restaurant in Spain, elBulli, is practically impossible to get into. A total of… read more »
The instructions were simple, too simple. Everyone meet at 247 Stuyvesant Avenue at 3pm in BedStuy and be prepared to cook. We were invited to observe as well as participate…. read more »
When we visited Breathe Inn last year we thought to ourselves wouldn’t it be great if something like this existed in NYC? Well, part of that experience is… 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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