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 "Upstate"

Retail

Scandinavian Grace in the Catskills

Photo: Courtesy of Scandinavian Grace

Scandinavian Grace - Catskills

Scandinavian Grace has opened a spacious new outpost just outside of Woodstock, NY. The store is nestled among the Catskill Mountains, and the sturdy, timeless look of Scandinavian design fits… read more »

Blog

A table from A Razor, A Shiny Knife, in Homer, N.Y.

Photo: Gabriele Stabile for The New York Times

The Anti-Restaurant

Supper clubs, underground restaurants, or anti-restaurants call them what you want, they are breeding all over Manhattan. But a few are taking them upstate, like A Razor, A… read more »

Quarter Round Side Chair

Photo: Christopher Kurtz

Gregory Krum

Back in February we published the work of Christopher Kurtz, a sculpture and furniture designer working out of his studio in upstate New York. His pieces recently caught… read more »

Hotels, Documentaries and Features

We’re quickly approaching our one year anniversary and have been diligently working on new content. The first in our documentary series with Billykirk is due out in September. New features… 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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