#nolita

#nolita

Expect a high-end experience through and through: players are doted on by servers who open backgammon sets, offer cocktails and hot towels and ensure every need is met at the custom tables equipped with built-in drawers and adjustable lights peppered throughout the space. Members can also participate in tournaments, sign up for strategy lessons or enjoy prix-fixe dinners from local restaurants.

Whether you're a perfume connoisseur or a total novice, "The Nolita Perfume Tour" invites all scent-seekers on a t wo-hour long guided experience through niche perfume stores in Manhattan. Included in the tours is a perfume shopping map of New York, a perfume guide with personalized recommendations, free samples and exclusive in-store discounts. Each tour has a maximum of around eight people, so you're getting a personal experience. Visit perfume boutiques like Fueguia 1833 and Commodity -and leave with a new scent hand picked just for you.

Meet the Prince Street Pizza Pepperoni & Hot Honey Sundae, available now through September 15 at Milk Bar's Nolita shop (at 246 Mott St). The base is Milk Bar's cult-favorite Cereal Milk soft serve, that just-sweet-enough swirl inspired by the bottom of your breakfast bowl. Then things get meaty. The soft serve is crowned with chopped Prince Street pepperoni and finished with a drizzle of hot honey, creating a salty-sweet-spicy trifecta that basically screams "New York."

I was promptly served my plated taco - a thin slice of New York strip and sirloin steak (delicately cleaved from the trompo in the tiny visible kitchen) with a splat of avocado salsa atop a sturdy corn tortilla. I added a mix of both the serrano (described as "mild") and habanero ("spicy) salsas, plus a smattering of the serve-yourself chicharrones (such a smart move).

At Caffe Paradiso, the people behind have swapped perfect Negronis in Greenwich Village for perfect espresso in Nolita. Their signature drinks have some bells and whistles—a foam-top here, some shaved chocolate there—that tend to attract people who like taking pictures of their coffee and are willing to stand in line to do so.