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 "West Coast"

Retail

Photo: The Studio

Darr

Darr is the first collaboration of Brian Cousins and Hicham Benmira (Hollander & Lexer being their second). The store is a culmination of hours spent digging deep in the flea… read more »

Features

Alex and Companies

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 »

Blog

Olsen Residence - Donald Olsen, Berkeley, California 1959

Photo: Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome

Coast Modern

As we wait for Julius Shulman’s documentary to reach New York this fall, another documentary on modern architecture surfaces. Coast Modern a new film by directors Michael Bernard… read more »

"Swell: Art 1950-2010"

Photo: Swell

“Swell: Art 1950-2010”

You needn’t be a participant of the sport to appreciate “Swell,” a massive exhibition spanning six decades on surf culture and the art that comes from it. The show occupies… read more »

Le Grand Fooding 2010 - David Chang vs. Daniel Patterson

Photo: Le Grand Fooding

Le Grand Fooding 2010

The East Coast, West Coast rival isn’t just regulated to sports or rap. The restaurant industry is taking part in the never ending feud over supremacy. Tonight will be the… 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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