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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RESULTS FOR "The Standard"

Features

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch in their studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

Roman & Williams Studio Visit

The partners behind Roman & Williams, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch are anti minimalists. It’s apparent in the spaces they create. read more »

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 »

Journal: Ames Boston

Inside Penn Station, after cavorting through the many throngs of travelers, I met up with some friends to board the Acela train headed for Boston, Mass., for a stay at… read more »

Videos

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch

Photo: Rose Callahan

Roman & Williams

“It’s a shame to only have dreams at night. You should have a few opportunities during the day.” This wistful quote from Stephen Alesch speaks volumes about the spaces he… read more »

Blog

T-shirts by Natas Kaupas for LA, Jose Parla for Miami, and Eric Haze for NYC

Photo: The Standard

The Standard T-Shirts

The perfect shop for The Scout would be one that is inside a hotel, combining everything that we love; leisure, travel, and retail. The experiments a hotel proprietor can have… read more »

Postopolis at The Standard in LA

Photo: Postopolis

Postopolis at The Standard LA

New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture in association with ForYourArt will host a five day event “themed around landscape and the built environment.” Postopolis will… read more »

The Standard 2009 calendar

Photo: The Standard

The Standard - NY / 2009 Calendar

We’ll be honest, we’re quite fond of what Andres Balazs has done with his empire. We didn’t think much about hotels before we stayed in one of his…. 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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