In anticipation of a frigid winter that never quite panned out, I wrote about cozy dining in late December. You know those restaurants, the ones that make you feel as if you’ve been spirited away to a quieter part of New York City reserved just for you and yours. In the same dispatch, I asked…
Details
Advertisement – Continue Reading Below
From the street, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant looks like a set for the hottest restaurant in New York in a movie made by people who don’t live in New York. You can’t see inside the curtained windows, but you can read the restaurant’s name, painted in gold script, from across the street. Black S.U.V.s with…
Details
Sure, this winter hasn’t really felt like winter, but let’s hope summer feels like summer so you can break out the cute sandals and show off your perfect pedicure. It may be boot season now, but you know your feet are yearning for the sun! Sandals come in all shapes and sizes: flat, heeled, chunky,…
Details
A Daily Embrace My father worked 12 hours a day, five days a week. I missed him each second he was away. Every night when he would come home, I would run into his arms. Years passed. Cancer forced him to retire, then bound him to a bed, while I had to work. He died…
Details
Headliner Rosette at Brooklyn Winery Founded in 2010, Brooklyn Winery makes wine in Williamsburg with grapes from small American growers, shipped upon harvest to the winery. The rest is left up to the winemaker, Chuck Gergley, and the wine director, Conor McCormack, whose efforts could be had at the winery’s bar. It has now moved…
Details
In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke to stylist and Emmy-winning costume designer Zerina Akers, who famously worked with Beyoncé on both Lemonade and Black Is King. In 2020, Akers took her work…
Details
It wasn’t until James Joyce left Ireland that he wrote Ulysses and Dubliners, classics that embed themselves in the topography of his island home. He did so, says Jonathan Anderson, “via not being there, but meticulously being there,” tracing Dublin’s streets like a palm reader delineating not the future, but the past. Sometimes, Anderson says,…
Details
Choosing cabinets for a kitchen renovation seems simple enough. They’re essentially boxes for holding dishes, glasses and cooking utensils. How hard could it be? The decision-making process, it turns out, can be quite involved, since there are so many design details and features available — and considering the significant investment required. So it’s worth making…
Details
Beef stew may be considered old-fashioned, but it remains one of the world’s great dishes, and one of the easiest. Since realizing that I could call it “wine-braised short ribs” and serve it at a dinner party, I have made beef stew in whatever form I find it: rendang and chili, stracotto and birria, daube…
Details