Brunch in New York

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“Take 5” at Trattoria Cinque. The name actually means “restaurant five“ in Italian and signifies a “5“ discipline used to showcase its Italian cuisine. The brunch menu features the five best selections in five categories — signature plates, extras, Bloody Marys, specialty cocktails and “quartinos.” Enjoy sipping a “quartino,” a generous one-third bottle of wine, instead of only a glass. Signature brunch plates include frittata, eggs Benedict, French toast, breakfast pizza, and fried eggs — all masterfully prepared to taste amazing. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you’ve ever wanted to ride in a time machine back to the 1980s, the Art Deco-style The Odeon is the place in which to do it. The huge red neon capital letters across the outside of this upscale iconic corner ‘diner’ have 1980s written all over them. So does the former-client list (just ask—names like Warhol get dropped). Heck, the menu probably hasn’t changed since the ‘80s, either. Indeed, during that seminal decade—when Manhattan was aboom with real estate bubbles, stock market swindles, and a tight underlying grittiness that’s long since left the island for Brooklyn—this place was packed to the rails. You can almost hear Bret Easton Ellis crowding around the next table with his Brat Pack, scheming another epic-shocking book/movie. Soho stud Keith McNally once owned the place. Read the rest of this entry »