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My favorite of the bitchy little salad genre. The Odeon, Cafe Cluny and Cafe Luxembourg all do a really good one (same owners, same salad). It's frisée, Fourme d'Ambert (I get it without this cuz I don't really like cheese but on my birthday this year I forgot to say no cheese and the salad was still really good), croutons, lardon, bacon vinaigrette and a pouched egg. Probably super easy to make at home but I can't really imagine ever doing that. Cafe Luxembourg is definitely the chicest of the three spots but it's pretty far uptown and kind of a pain to get to so I like going to Cafe Cluny and getting the salad and some french fries and pretending I don't have trouble paying my rent on time.
Nov 10, 2023
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Nothing makes me happier than going to Odeon, and Lucien. They’re classic New York. The lighting at Odeon is perfection. It’s impossible to look bad there. Walking downstairs to the ladies room, you can feel the history of it’s patrons of yesteryear: Ed Ruscha, Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Leo Castelli, etc.I love to go to Lucien alone and have a steak at the bar. The bartenders are the sweetest and I always run into someone I know. I spent New Years Eve there and I swear to GOD it’s the best New Years Eve I’ve had in ages. Everyone’s gorgeous, cool, and interesting. The people watching is fantastic. The owner (Zach) is a hunk with bee stung lips. If he nods at you, it feels like you’ve won the lottery. I’m kidding. But also not. Go there with friends to talk all night about how the person you're dating isn’t watching your stories or texting you back OR have dinner and a cocktail to celebrate, right before heading off to the discotheque. I’m really trying to bring back the term discotheque. We’ll see what happens after this comes out. Maybe it’ll sweep the nation.
Mar 31, 2023
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Last month I had lunch with my editor at The Odeon, a few blocks from Conde Nast headquarters. New Yorker editor in chief David Remick was there taking out a writer, as was Will Welch, editor in chief of GQ. Not sure what they got, but our Vanity Fair contingent got Diet Cokes and the Baby Kale Caesar, add chicken. Solid order. The Odeon is a two-times-a-week place for me, but it’s not exactly a grand stop on the global foodie tour. You go to The Odeon to gossip about the other people at The Odeon. Which, I mean, guilty.
Jan 20, 2022
The NYT review drew me in but
Dominic’s amazing service (and the insanely great but simple meal) made me want to come back again.
I geniunely love me a great neighborhood French bistro. 🥃
Apr 24, 2024
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Out this morning. Live albums rock, cover albums rock, Bob Dylan rocks, Cat Power rocks, this album is perfect. Her voice sounds so good and the band is tight. My favorite ex and I's first date was to go see Cat Power play a solo show at the Paradise in Boston in 2013, we stood on the balcony and both cried during Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Dylan cover). Highlights on the new album are Visions Of Johanna, Baby Let Me Follow You Down and One Too Many Mornings.
Nov 10, 2023
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Kind of a recent game changer for me as someone prone to waiting until the brink of falling asleep before I get up and get ready for bed. I started a few months ago washing my face like right when I walk in the door if I know I'm not leaving again and now I'm fully converted. It feels super weird in the beginning but I promise 11 PM you is gonna be sooo grateful for 6 PM you's forward thinking.
Nov 12, 2023
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I love seeing someone doing/wearing/using something and being like "whoa cool" and then copying them, that's how I've found most of my favorite things. A non-exhaustive list of things and sources includes:
• Drinking coffee out of glass mugs with milk and sugar (Jeanne Dielman)
• L'Occitane lavender hand cream (my friend Louie)
• Mini bottles of sparkling mineral water at home instead of big ones (the bad guy in the Claire Denis movie Bastards)
• Being gay (my mother)
• Jazz fusion (my father)
Feb 1, 2024