Terry Trucco

A Summer Ice Cream Treat To Scream For At The Pierre New York

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Summer ice cream

What does summer taste like?

Ice cream is my favorite two word answer, especially when it’s in a cone. It seems Michael Mignano, Executive Pastry Chef at The Pierre New York, agrees.

In the spirit of long days, soaring temperatures and lazy afternoons (or memories of them), he’s concocted the summer’s cleverest pop-up dessert: four miniature hand-crafted cones filled with ice cream made from sun-season fruits — white peach raspberry, Alphonse mango, white chocolate strawberry, wild blueberry verbena. Read more

Terry Trucco

Dig in: A Record 43 Hotel Restaurants Sign On for NYC Restaurant Week with $38 Dinners and $25 Lunches

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Two more courses to go.

If it’s late July it must be NYC Summer Restaurant Week — the lip-smacking week in name only that stretches just short of a month and serves up three-course prix-fixe deals designed to stave off summer doldrums (and keep restaurants humming during the slow season).

This summer’s magic numbers are $25 (lunch) and $38 (dinner). More than 360 restaurants are on board including 43 at hotels, a record by our reckoning. Read more

Terry Trucco

Times Square Francophiles: 3 NYC Hotels Celebrating Bastille Day & French Restaurant Week

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Feeling French? But of course. It’s perfect storm time — the Tour de France (July 4-26), Bastille Day (July 14) and French Restaurant Week (July 13-19) rolled into one big week, with a few bits extending beyond. Here’s where to go if you’re in a Blue, White and Red mood in Midtown.

 

 

 

 

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Terry Trucco

Three NYC Hotel Rooftops Where You Can Catch a Movie and Feel the Breeze

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Outdoor movie screenings enjoy a long, illustrious history (think drive-ins). But a hotel rooftop can do the trick, too. Here’s where to catch a flick (and drink something other than Diet Coke) during the long, hot New York summer. Read more

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Was The Spouter Inn The First Themed Boutique Hotel?

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Did Herman Melville dream up the first themed boutique hotel?

Never mind that this was never his intent. But I’m rereading Moby-Dick, and it’s hard to ignore what we know about modern-day hotel design when Ishmael, roaming around New Bedford, Massachusetts looking for a bed for the night in Chapter 2, spots The Spouter Inn, “the dilapidated little wooden house” that “was the very spot for cheap lodgings.” (Our narrator had already dismissed The Crossed Harpoons and Sword-Fish Inn as “too expensive and jolly.”) Read more

Terry Trucco

Four NYC Hotels For Watching the July 4 Fireworks

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Ka-boom

It’s almost birthday time for one big country, and who needs candles when you’ve got fireworks?

This year’s July 4th sparklers, courtesy of Macy’s, explode over the East River, shot from barges floating between East 23rd Street and East 34th Street. You can see them from anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, provided there’s no tall buildings to obstruct your view (good luck). But a rooftop lounge at a well-placed hotel all but guarantees a great view (and drinks and food to boot). These four hotels are going all out to celebrate a big 239th for the USA. Read more