Chef Dan Barber and I had been caught in a thunderstorm as he gave me a preprandial tour of the center, which includes not only the eponymous barns (they now house the restaurant .
At home, Bacchus-like, I poured myself a preprandial libation, but I was far too tired to contemplate an evening of Dionysian delights.
During the preprandial cocktail party, Alan Abrams, a PTI Edit maven and Broadway's most ebullient singing archivist, excitedly told me he had chatted with Riefenstahl downstairs .
The Underground Gourmet: Rose Bakery Brings Brititerranean Cooking and High Style to Kips Bay Rose Bakery If you, like the Underground Gourmet, are a complete fashion illiterate, a preprandial tour of the new Dover Street Market , the seven-story multibrand designer emporium that houses a branch of Paris’s Rose Bakery on its ground floor, can be a harrowing experience. Sample snippets of overheard conversation: “I’ve been wearing Prada since before you were born.” “This [black ...
April 12, 2014 - New York Magazine