#west-village

#west-village

NYCxDesign, a design festival held each May in New York City, wrapped up its 11th edition last week with a strong array of group shows across boroughs in Soho showrooms, artist studios and backyards in Brooklyn, vacant office spaces in Chinatown and galleries in between.Though officially billed as a weeklong festival beginning May 19 and anchored by the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and WantedDesign at the Javits Center, the event circuit seemed to begin in earnest a week before, with a packed roster of adjacent art and design fairs in town including The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), Frieze New York and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

The celebration of Carnival occurring this year just before Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 22 is marked in Scandinavia with yeasted pastries variously called semlor (Swedish), fastelavnsboller (Danish) and laskiaispulla (Finnish), depending on the country.Made from cardamom-scented pastry, they're split and overflowing with custard or whipped cream.

This fall, I visited Paris.On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, I dropped into Le Chardenoux, a whisper of a restaurant in the 11th Arrondissement.I bring it up because that tiny space was the ideal cozy restaurant: low light, just a handful of seats and that purr of soft, latent energy that you can find only in intimate places.

Dear Diary: I was at a bagel shop on Lorimer Street on a very busy Sunday morning.The crowd of people waiting for their orders was packed to the walls.I and another young man had been waiting up against the counter for a while.What did you order again, babe? the woman running sandwiches called out in our direction.

Following landlord disputes, the acclaimed cocktail bar Angel's Share closed in March 2022.In the meantime, the bar had been hosting pop-ups at a satellite location in a Midtown hotel last summer, but now the bar is opening in a permanent new location.Angel's Share is set to debut at 45 Grove Street, a block from Via Carota in the West Village, according to the New York Times.

Dear Diary: My wife and I moved our daughter into a walk-up on 86th Street in summer 2002, lugging her furniture up four flights from midnight to 2 a.m.I had to return the rented trailer to U-Haul at 135th and Broadway in the morning.Being from out of town, I was nervous about driving in New York, especially on a Monday at rush hour.

Dear Diary: I was chatting with my German teacher after a class at the Goethe Institute on a chilly November evening.We were both hungry, so we decided to get chicken sandwiches at a halal food truck near Union Square Park.The park was mostly deserted, but we decided to sit there and eat anyway.Being two women alone at night, we chose a bench beneath good lighting for safety's sake.

Chumley's may not become Froggy's - at least anytime soon.The storied West Village speakeasy - that since Prohibition had been a famous watering hole where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner at one time or another sidled up to the bar - has been on track to become a new venture called Froggy's, with chefs Liz Johnson and Will Aghajanian at the helm.

Dressed in black leggings and a puffer jacket, Bethany Lane, 35, was walking down Bleecker Street in Manhattan last Friday afternoon with a pack of three goldendoodles and one bernedoodle named Tinkerbelle.They poked their noses into the Whalebone store to collect some treats, before trotting along the Hudson River Park and having their photos taken by several tourists.

Restaurant openings have been picking up in New York City.Hundreds of new restaurants have opened over the past year - so many in fact, it can feel like whiplash.Consider this your guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes, that have opened recently.Here's a roundup of the restaurants and bars that opened in May.

Fish and chips might seem straightforward, but in fact, there are infinite variations both here and in the UK, where the dish originates.The "chips" part of fish and chips provides a rare occasion to refer to french fries by their British name.There, chips are rather stubby and greasy by design; here, we prefer a more slender and less greasy french fry.

NYC's food and drink selection is massive, especially when it comes to bars.With new ones opening every day it seems, it's a constantly changing scene that we love to keep our pulse on.Depending on what you're looking for in a bar, you have so many options!Looking to snuggle up in a cozy speakeasy?Or maybe even enter through a hidden door?

Alleva Dairy, a 130-year-old cheese store in Little Italy, closed its original location on Wednesday but will reopen in Lyndhurst, N.J.The pandemic dealt financial blows to the shop, which opened in 1892 and became known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella.The cheese store accumulated $628,000 in back rent and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

Over about 12 years, Ruben Rodriguez has assembled a tidy little collection of Spanish and Spanish-influenced restaurants in the East Village, all inspired by his mother's and grandmother's cooking.This latest goes well beyond Spain, taking inspiration from throughout the Mediterranean.Mr. Rodriguez has also gathered together a staff from his other venues: the chefs de cuisine Rolando Flores and Sebastian Cambeiro, the beverage director Niko Hagerty, the sommelier Raul Oleaga and the co-executive chef Rafael de la Rosa, who was at Minetta Tavern.