Second skin
The best leggings, Crevette, Fat Tuesday, best new guard lunch, Nature, Carrie Lindsey Beauty, FOUND obsessions, MORE
RESTAURANTS • The Nines
Lunch, new guard
Cafe Commerce (Upper East Side), chef Harold Moore restarts Village favorite uptown, T-F from 1145a
Café Carmellini (Nomad), fine dining w/ 2- or 3-course pre-fixe options, intel, M-F 1145a-2p
Leon’s (Union Square, above), Italian dishes for business-forward crowd from team behind Anton’s, intel, M-F, 8a-10p
Sappe (Meatpacking), Thai lunch sets featuring small selection of menu plus Thai tea or coffee, intel, M-F 12-330p
San Sabino (West Village), seafood forward Italian menu from Don Angie team, M-F 1130a-230p
Manuela (Soho), LA transplant featuring loud artistic interior and large lunch menu of American seasonal fare, M-F 1130a-230p
Kisa (Lower East Side), Korean style diner with three lunch specials plus banchan, T-Sun 11-230p
Strange Delight (Fort Greene), selection of menu favorites, plus ‘seafood and three’ for $25 per, intel, F-Sun 1130-330p
Cafe Mado (Prospect Heights), cafe-style menu featuring sandwiches on bread from sibling bakery, M, W-Sun 12-330p
The Nines are FOUND's distilled lists of the best. Additions or subtractions? Hit reply or found@foundny.com.
WORK • Link Blocks
Still spreading the love
Our sales team rang the bell a couple of times last week (once for a wellness company’s campaign, and the other for sponsored real estate FOUNDLISTINGS), which reminded us that this piece originally ran behind the paywall. We’re bringing it forward today, for the folks in the back. Want to join the party and insert your brand into this delightful mix with a sponsorship campaign? We’re here at sales@foundny.com.
FOUND is built on our obsessions across a range of lifestyle categories: dining, real estate, travel, shopping, culture & leisure, and work. Instead of siloing them, we’ve brought them together in a way that we hope promotes discovery without sacrificing depth. It’s different from the way we built Eater (dining), Curbed (real estate), and Racked (shopping), each of which stayed in their respective lanes.
To keep ourselves honest on the appeal of the approach, we pay close attention to reader surveys and also to the stats on what subscribers are clicking on in every issue. Some recent results from across the network on those most-clicked links:
New York: On Friday, the winner was this rice cooker, recommended deep in Margaret Austin’s Routine. On Tuesday, it was Ha’s Snack Bar, our lead restaurant. The previous Tuesday, Canine Styles, the dog boutique we profiled, was tops. And on each of the last two Fridays, the three real estate listings in our First Mover posts were runaway winners. UPDATE: Another big day for Upstate real estate last Friday, joined at the top by the bar Jeremy’s, listed in our Upper East Side cocktails Nines.
Los Angeles: Thursday’s top links were to Not No Bar, Topdrawer’s Kolo House Shoes, an SF Gate story on the Inn of Seven Ray, and the White Water Inn, recommended in Meave McAuliffe’s Routine. UPDATE: Three picks from Jason Stewart’s A+ Routine were the most clicked on Thursday. The power of a good recommendation well-delivered!
San Francisco: On Wednesday, the top performers were two of the real estate listings in the shadow of the former Kezar Stadium, news of the first SF Music Week, and a Chronicle story on the Transamerica Pyramid’s new tenant. UPDATE: “/subscribe” was the big winner (hard paywall, best avoided by… upgrading!), followed by a trio of real estate listings. San Francisco real estate, very hot RN.
Miami: The most-clicked links on Thursday were to our featured restaurant, A’Rive at the Harbour Club, a Super Bowl provisioning recommendation in the Nines, and the New World Symphony, the issue’s sponsor. UPDATE: Again, “/subscribe” took the top spot. Miami wants in.
That’s dining, real estate, travel, shopping, culture & leisure, and work — all represented, and in a mix of FOUND picks, recommendations from our profiled insiders, and links out to other sources in our local ecosystems (plus sponsors!). The FOUND dream, playing out in your inbox in real time. Got feedback on what we should be covering more or less? Drop us a line at found@foundny.com. And here’s that sponsorship email again: sales@foundny.com. –Josh Albertson
WORK LINKS: Final piece in place for Pfizer HQ conversion on E. 42nd St. • Congestion pricing exceeds expectations, raises $48.6M in first month • NYC unveils ‘touch of a button’ flood barriers by Manhattan Bridge • Has the FII summit surpassed Davos? • Meta ‘low performer’ didn’t see it coming • On ‘zombie unicorns’ and ‘unicorpses’.
RESTAURANTS • First Word
Crossing the channel
The Skinny: A coastal Mediterranean restaurant from husband-and-wife Patricia Howard and Ed Szymanski, Crevette is a departure from the British fare at the duo’s hit spots Lord’s and Dame. Opened earlier this month, it may exorcise the ghosts of the (many) failed efforts that previously inhabited 10 Downing St. in Greenwich Village.
The Vibe: Just before 5p on a frigid Wednesday, a line had already formed outside. I’d snagged the only thing available when booking two weeks out, an early seat at the bar, which overlooks a mostly white, oversized dining room, warmed up with ironed tablecloths, long-stem candles, whimsical bright murals, and glimpses of bright yellow and hot pink bathroom tiles.
The Food: The menu, large by New York standards, is divided into four sections: fruits de mar (raw bar), apéro (bites), appetizers, and entrees. Portions are small enough that you can make your way through all four in a single meal. Poached shrimp presented like small gifts, precisely positioned on the plate with two tiny bowls of aioli and Calabrian chili on the side like a bow to complete it. This was still more sauce than one needs for a simple shrimp, but worth holding onto for the courses to come. Next, bluefin tuna and guindilla over a perfectly fried rectangular tater tot (a welcome, novel tweak to spicy tuna over crispy rice) and a duo of excellent fritters — one rock shrimp dredged in chickpea flour, the other, basil and anchovy — are served with herbaceous basil aioli.
From the appetizers, the fennel salad exceeded expectations, with its softened and marinated sliced fennel, sweet bites of date, and chopped soft cheese. For an entree, seafood rice with saffron, razor clams and lobster was neatly portioned in a cast iron for one. The shellfish was buttery, though the socarrat (the crunchier rice bits often scraped off the bottom of a paella-style dish) were missed.
The Drinks: The beverage list is as long as the food menu, featuring multiple varieties of martinis, aperitifs, and three different Negronis. A spicy margarita is rimmed with a Basque staple spice, espelette pepper.
The Verdict: An excellent addition to the Village restaurant landscape and a hopeful bet to reverse the address curse at 10 Downing. –Sylvie Florman
→ Crevette (Greenwich Village) • 10 Downing St • Tue-Sat 5-11p • Reserve.
RESTAURANTS • The Ticket
Cozy Classics – Oscars Night • dinner and drinks followed by live screening of this year's Oscars in private cinema • Fouquet's New York (Tribeca) • Sun 3/2 @ 530p,$215 per
Mardi Gras at The Dutch • Fat Tuesday celebration w/ live performances, cajun & creole passed snacks, plus Hurricanes & Sazeracs • The Dutch (Soho) • Tues 3/4 @ 7p, $75 per
Communal Dining by Studio Bumi x Hana Makgeolli • family-style dinner celebrating intersection of Indonesian and Korean traditions • Hana Makgeolli (Greenpoint) • Thurs 3/6 @ 6p, $125 per
NYC RESTAURANT LINKS: Jean-Georges taking helm at soon-to-shutter Tribeca Grill? • Ruby’s opens Williamsburg outpost • Revisiting red sauce classic Garguilo’s on Coney Island • Why frozen drinks are this winter’s hottest cocktails.
WORK • Tuesday Routine
Jeweling hour
BREE NICHOLS • owner • Nature (sculptural jewelry and objects)
Neighborhood you work and live in: Clinton Hill
It’s Tuesday morning. What’s the scene at your workplace?
I’m in my studio working, or running around the Diamond District.
What’s on the agenda for today?
Carving waxes for two wedding rings, both to be cast in 18k gold, one to be set with a lovely fat emerald. I’ve been making a lot more pieces for ceremony and engagement — I love getting asked to make custom forever work that veers from tradition, but fully embraces beauty.
Any restaurant plans today, tonight, this weekend?
Getting back to Little Grenjai in Bed-Stuy, for starters. Further afield in Manhattan, I’d like to graduate from the bar and a snack to the full table treatment at Le Veau D'Or, and finally make it to S&P with my fiancé Joseph after exhausting ourselves at Chelsea galleries. Finally, back in Brooklyn, there’s always Four Horsemen for chill, weird perfection.
How about a little leisure or culture this week?
I always like to check out the scene at the gallery 52 Walker, and of course, I saw the Alvin Ailey exhibit at The Whitney before it closed. Might try to cram in a show at The Drawing Center as well.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
My big ticket wishes are typically travel-related. I’m currently planning a trip to Marseille to see a beloved who recently expatriated. Of course, I do have an online wishlist of coveted Phoebe Philo-era vintage Céline, and if I could, I’d buy a profoundly expensive hand-blown glass from Ulysse Sauvage or some leather opera gloves from Dries (to wear to the aforementioned classic excursions) that I saw at Outline.
What NYC store or service do you love to recommend?
Carrie at Carrie Lindsey Beauty in Fort Greene, always. She is magic.
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GOODS & SERVICES • FOUND Object
The best leggings
Not long ago, right before an SLT class, one of my favorite instructors complimented my workout fit, a black onesie.