The Four Horsemen Rides On
It was a bad idea… at least that’s what they were told. A tiny restaurant with a focus on natural wine, before everyone and their dog knew about native yeasts and volatile acidity, with a European-leaning menu in a corner of Williamsburg that, as chef Nick Curtola recalls, was “weird back then.”
“Everyone we talked to, who had a restaurant, said that the reason there isn’t a natural wine bar and restaurant here is because it doesn’t work and you’re dumb,” says wine director and co-founder Justin Chearno. “Don’t build it, you’ll lose everything.”
“We did it anyway.”
Drake's in Paris
There are few things we enjoy more than a packed table full of friends. To celebrate our ongoing series of Paris Pop-Ups, we gathered a group of them at Le Petit Panisse, legendary bistro and a great place to gather. There was wine and steak frites, and a few sore heads the next morning, as there should be.
The Power of Paraboot
Much has been written about the emergence of the ‘post-sneaker world’ - a sense that the tyranny trainers have wrought on men’s style is at last under threat from the resurgent power of loafers, oxfords and other classically formal designs - but no shoe embodies the fight like Paraboot’s Michael lace-up. Over the past few years, the low-profile, two-eyelet shoe has not only become the official shoe of menswear dudes, but an if-you-know-you-know emblem of good taste.
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