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CULTURE & LEISURE • Friday Routine
EMILY SUNDBERG • writer & consultant • Emily Sundberg Worldwide
Neighborhood you work in: Windsor Terrace (or wherever my meetings are)
It’s Friday afternoon, how are you rolling into the weekend?
If I'm lucky I take a nap. I usually go to dinner with friends on Fridays, which means by 7 p.m. my curling iron is plugged in and I'm drinking a Celsius or Red Bull and listening to a Morgan Wallen playlist on Spotify. I wake up early to write my newsletter, so it's hard for me to stay out late. I try to rally on the weekends.
Any restaurant plans this weekend?
On Sunday nights I usually order from Bangkok Degree, but tonight I'm going to Negril, a Caribbean restaurant in Park Slope.
How about a little leisure or culture?
I'm flying to Canouan in the Caribbean tomorrow! But on the weekends I usually enjoy going to the movies alone (it clouds my thoughts if I immediately start discussing a movie with people the second we walk out of the theater). Also, I want to see Cole Escola's play.
Any weekend getaways?
I am not an "escape the city" person, but in the summer it's really nice to go to the beach. I have family on Long Island and in Connecticut. I'm from a town called Centerport, so if you ever want to do a weird Gold Coast roadtrip, I'd suggest checking out the Vanderbilt Museum and planetarium (it used to be the Vanderbilt summer house), getting a cold cheese slice at Little Vincent's in Huntington, and then exploring the Old Westbury Gardens. Another really fun road trip is going up the coast of Connecticut and visiting all the seafood spots — I like Abbott’s in Noank and Ford's Lobster.
What was your last great vacation?
I went to Buenos Aires and Jose Ignacio the other week — it was my first time in South America. It's a long flight, but both cities dissolved the memory of the red eye the moment we got there. I stayed at the Four Seasons in Buenos Aires which was... a Four Seasons. The steak sandwiches, warm wine-filled nights, and sexy tango made for an indulgent (and affordable) escape from New York.
We took a ferry from Buenos Aires to Uruguay to get to Jose Ignacio, where we stayed at Posada Ayana, a ‘70s Brazilian-inspired hotel. They have a James Turrell on site and our daily late-morning breakfasts in front of the pool were one of my favorite parts of the trip. I didn't know what to expect from Jose Ignacio, but I didn't expect to happen upon one of the most impressive museums I've ever been to: MACA, which only just opened in 2022. The trip also included horseback riding on the beach, film screenings — they have a pretty big film festival in the summer — and sunset swims in the ocean. I have a full restaurant and shopping list for both cities if anyone wants but my favorite restaurants in Buenos Aires were Casa Cavia, La Rambla for the sickest steak sandwich of my life, and Anafe.