Scholarly Pursuits
At 240 East 9th Street (between Stuyvesant St and Second Ave) down a nearly anonymous staircase, Decibel is a gritty gem of a hole-in-the-wall. The exhaustive menu of around 100 sakes coupled with the secretive vibe and the many Japanese patrons makes you feel like you could be in an after-hours Tokyo dive. They have [...]
There are restaurants that project an aura beyond the circles that frequent their tables and a few that roll with the wheel of time to participate in both past and present, their former pre-eminence sustained by a tenacious if faded splendour. Scarpetta belongs to the former category thanks to its celebrity chef Scott Conant [...]