With no Olympics, World Cup, or World Fair, 2011 sounds like a largely uneventful year. That means there’s no major reason to visit (or avoid) any particular city, and no one destination will take over much of the travel media coverage. With that in mind, we guide you to the best city-break options for the [...]
The Dream Hotel is one of our dream hotels in New York, and that’s why we’ve awarded it one U_Star. So we’re happy to announce the recent opening of The Chatwal by the same owner. It’s a boutique hotel that stands out for its 1930s Art Deco interior but it also mixes some contemporary design. [...]
Fans of the famous Magnolia Bakery‘s cupcakes often crossed the street to a biographies-only bookstore that existed on that spot for years (400 Bleeker Street). That’s now a space taken over by Marc Jacobs, but not as a fashion boutique — it’s a book store called “Bookmarc.” You’ve always been able to find some art [...]
Robert Restaurant, New York ROBERT RESTAURANT While MoMA and its The Modern receive most of the attention, don’t overlook the Museum of Arts and Design and its new restaurant. “Robert” overlooks Columbus Circle and Central Park and features a stylish dining area where contemporary American cuisine mixed with Mediterranean influences is served. From Wednesday to [...]
The last decade has brought some radical changes to the travel industry. From low-cost airlines, to last-minute online booking, to the large number of stylish hostels, to the boutique and design hotel concept. There were even new destinations, with Eastern Europe (particularly Prague and Budapest) becoming one of the most popular city breaks in the [...]
Tomorrow New York’s Guggenheim will open a new restaurant called “The Wright,” celebrating the 50 years of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum. It will only be serving lunches for now, but will open for dinner starting in mid-January. A special brunch will also be available on Sundays from 11AM to 5PM. The dining area features [...]
Even when knowing nothing about New York’s IAC (InterActiveCorp) Building, you can tell that it resembles many of Frank Gehry’s famous icons. And it is in fact a Frank Gehry project, although this time he traded bent metal for curved glass. The 10-story building stands by the city’s continuously renovated West Side and is visible [...]
It’s one of the internet’s biggest shopping sites, and now it’s also an actual store in Manhattan — but only for a few days (until the 29th). In a clear marketing strategy, eBay is hoping to draw attention during the big shopping days around Thanksgiving with a shop located next to Bergdorf Goodman at East [...]
Claude Lalanne is currently presenting her very first large-scale outdoor exhibition in the United States through New York’s Paul Kasmin Gallery. Her sculptures, together with those of her late husband François-Xavier have been placed down Park Avenue in Manhattan and include eight monumental works such as life-size bronze sheep and a cross-legged monkey by François-Xavier, [...]
We like to walk around cities and apparently modern travelers agree with us because they’ve voted Copenhagen’s Stroget one of the 7 urban wonders of the world. That’s why we love New York’s new High Line and the pedestrianization of Herald and Times squares. Will Manhattan become mostly car-free? That would be a dream that’s [...]
