To briefly recap our progress with the Veuve Clicquot recipe this week, we added one part design on Tuesday, one part ambiance on Wednesday, and one part expertise on Thursday. Today, there's one last ingredient to add, and we're going…
Continue Reading →Last week, a perfect storm of luck, timing, karmic repayment, and a unforeseen hiccup in Josh's schedule had me whisking off to Paris on an Open Skies flight to join some other bloggers as guests of Veuve Clicquot (think bold…
Continue Reading →Michael Mina's Clock Bar is the newest collaboration between Mina and the Westin St. Francis, paying homage to the San Francisco hotel's century-old tradition in Union Square. While the namesake -- the Magneta grandfather clock -- proudly stands outside the…
Continue Reading →One way to get the key to New York City is to get on Mayor Bloomberg's good side. But if sucking up to politicians isn't your style, might we suggest checking out Urban Daddy's new Keys To The City microsite?…
Continue Reading →Got milk? Chocolate Flavored Straws, recently released by The San Francisco Chocolate Company, are a great example of fun, functional packaging to bring out the kid in all of us (milk drinkers). Within a sealed, wider than normal straw, chocolate…
Continue Reading →NYC has culinary gems like I have never seen. The best part is, there are the great classic restaurants, but there are also always new diamonds in the rough popping up to challenge the classics-- keep em honest if you…
Continue Reading →The salt revolution is coming. I know, we all thought artisan salts were totally passé in the gourmet world, now that everyone and their mom has had Himalayan pink sea salt. It's time to put it on something else besides…
Continue Reading →Luxury. Binary. Juice. Is there a limit on what people will pay to nourish themselves through the medium of fruit juice (and, um, nutritional gel)? It seems as though MonaVie has set out to answer that question -- a little…
Continue Reading →It seems like the last thing the world needs now is a new brand of spring water. But if it's being sold by a puppet dancing to Snap's "Rhythm is A Dancer," the folks at Drench spring water have me…
Continue Reading →So many energy drinks, so little bladder control. For most health conscious people out there, the biggest problem with the plethora of Gator, Power, Sobe, and other prefixed aides and waters is that we all want to believe that they're…
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