UES Is Now Home to Excellent Thai Takeout From Queens Restaurateurs
Hug Isan has opened an offshoot restaurant called Lenox Thai in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, focusing on homestyle dishes from northern Thailand.
Lenox Thai offers a small, brightly lit interior with two tables and a narrow bar, mainly aimed at carryout.
Lenox Thai serves unique dishes such as Sa cool veggies, which are tapioca starch orbs filled with crushed peanuts and herbs, and pa lo sam chan, a classic pork belly stew. [ more ]
Freelance creative director John Tymkiw has spent the last three years photographing the outdoor dining shelters that sprang up on the streets of New York City during the coronavirus pandemic.Here, he selects 10 of his favourites.Restaurants and cafes across New York City began erecting makeshift kerbside dining shelters in 2020 in a bid to increase their outdoor seating capacity while Covid-19 restricted indoor gatherings.
The Island Destination Wedding a MetroCard Swipe Away
Last weekend at Paul Choi and Ashley Austin Morris's wedding in a little stone church on Roosevelt Island, there was the sort of giddiness in the air that you might expect to find at an actual island destination wedding.That's because most of their guests, despite years of living in New York City, had never stepped foot onto Roosevelt Island, the residential waterfront Manhattan community sitting in the East River.
Frieze New York's Intimate Art Fair Pops Up at the Shed
Temporary pop-up editions of retail stores and restaurants have proliferated in the past few years.And what is an art fair if not a specialized, group version of that idea?The 11th edition of the fair Frieze New York will pop up at the Shed in Hudson Yards this week, from Thursday to Sunday, and will feature 68 galleries.