In New York, the waiting list is a local sport: three months for a table, a season for a club, a lifetime for certain courts. Which is precisely why it is our favourite playground.
The house guide
The addresses that matter
Every address in this guide can be booked through the house: tables, sunbeds, booths, night tables.
To live
01 / 04Manhattan en hélicoptère
Downtown, the Statue, Central Park: fifteen minutes worth the whole trip.
Courtside au Garden
The Knicks at floor level, where the film stars sit.
SoHo en privé
Designers' showrooms and back rooms, doors open for you.
The tables
02 / 04Carbone
The most coveted Italian-American table in the world, in Greenwich Village.
Polo Bar
Ralph Lauren's own: the ideal America, on an unfindable reservation.
4 Charles Prime Rib
Twenty tables in a Village basement: the most closed steakhouse in the city.
For a drink
03 / 04Bemelmans Bar
Murals, piano and martinis at the Carlyle: the eternal Upper East Side.
Overstory
Cocktails on the 64th floor, Manhattan in 360 degrees.
Dante
The world's best bar several years running, negronis at any hour.
The night
04 / 04Zero Bond
The private club where Manhattan gathers when doors close elsewhere.
Casa Cipriani
Jazz in the lounge, the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop: members only.
Paul's Baby Grand
Tiny, dim, unfindable: the favourite night of SoHo insiders.
On the ground, we orchestrate
The city where everything is booked. Except for you.
Manhattan's private tables and clubs
US Open, NBA and Broadway from the front row
Suites overlooking Central Park
