As cinephiles were made aware in the eponymous 2003 Sean Penn vehicle, 21 grams is the purported "weight" of the soul. And if anyone can be trusted to have communed with the more enlightened self, it's one who has taken to a ballet stage. And so the name of former ballerina-turned-philanthropist Mihoko Kiyokawa's debut New York restaurant, Mihoko's 21 Grams, suggests something far from quotidian.
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La Cuevita (Highland Park) - Stained glass, leather bar stools, innovative and potent cocktails.
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The Waldorf Astoria Berlin, the gleaming new tower on the Ku'damm, is unapologetically luxurious, particularly with the opening of Les Dolites: French culinary god Pierre Gagnaire's first gastronomic temple on German soil, located within the hotel. The lushness of the space, awash in Italian silks and floral displays, extends to Germany's only Guerlain Spa.
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Can this day get any better? Just when we thought it was enough that spring has finally started and 70 degree days are becoming the norm, a bunch of French bakeries have decided that today is also “Macaron Day,” and they’ll be handing out FREE samples of the colorful, circular morsels!
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Something is happening on the second floor of the Carlton Hotel. Hot is colliding with cold, Asian is merging with French, and tuna is appearing in dishes where steak once reigned. Welcome to Millesime, where ambition and simplicity emanate from chef Laurent Manrique's lauded kitchen. With a career that began at the Waldorf Hotel's Peacock Alley, and is dotted with Bon Appètit's "Rising Star Chef Award" and Michelin stars (his cooking earned San Francisco's Aqua three and a half stars), Manrique is back in New York and shaking up the French scene with his signature class and innovation.
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