Los Angeles has a fourth Katsuya restaurant, this time downtown. Once again, the menu is by sushi master Katsyua Uechi and the design by Philippe Starck. As UCityGuides previously reported (“Philippe Starck Redesigns Los Angeles“), the French designer has an exclusive contract with the SBE group, and his signature style is once again [...]
New York’s hottest new hotel isn’t in Manhattan. It’s not in Brooklyn either. In fact, it’s not in New York at all, but across the Hudson in New Jersey, or more specifically, in Hoboken. In addition to being known as Frank Sinatra’s birthplace, that city is also known for having some [...]
Located in the city’s most sophisticated district, Oven 180 Restaurant is one of Madrid’s latest additions to its trendy dining list. It serves a traditional Spanish and contemporary Mediterranean menu, although the name refers to the 180 degrees that ovens are heated at for baking bread (the original plan was to open a pastry [...]
Why wait for your waiter when your table can place the order for you? At Inamo Restaurant which opened last September in London, tables are touch screens serving as virtual menus, so gone are also the days of slow service and mixed-up orders. And this virtual waiter may also suggest the right wine [...]
It has illustrated postcards, guidebooks, and magazine articles about the Big Apple for close to two decades, and has therefore become part of New York’s iconography. It’s the DKNY mural on Broadway, at the doorstep of SoHo, showing the Statue of Liberty standing over the downtown skyscrapers. But it’s now gone. The [...]
We’ve recently announced the results of the 7 Urban Wonders of the World as voted by travelers. Those were all important urban centers in modern cities, but if that list were to also include remarkable cities of the past, one of them would certainly be Pompeii. This Roman town is found just outside [...]
The creators of London’s Mahiki club have now also given that city a new, classic cocktail lounge in Knightsbridge — Tini Bar. It’s already a major destination for after-work, pre-dinner drinks and the buzz may be due to Guy Pelly, known as Prince Harry’s best friend, who’s one of the people behind the project. [...]
San Francisco’s new Millennium Tower (opened last April) is home to one of the city’s hottest new restaurants. It is RN74, named after Route National 74 in France which runs through towns known for their wines. Naturally, the menu therefore lists French-American cuisine and there is also a wine bar offering simpler, slightly cheaper [...]
Milan’s Design Library Café has taken the Uward for Best New Café while the library itself is now one of that city’s main design destinations. A second branch was opened in Shanghai, and just over a couple of weeks ago, a third one in Istanbul. Just like the previous two, the Turkish city’s [...]
What started as a spontaneous idea in Madrid is now slowly conquering the world. Three friends were having drinks in the Spanish capital when they mentioned that there were no hotels in Madrid (or any other city) that they felt met their needs and those of their friends. That is, a place right [...]
