Located on the ninth floor of Saks Fifth Avenue, L’Avenue is the stateside outpost of the famous French eatery. Designed by Philippe Starck, it offers French-Asian fare: think tuna tartare, chicken spring rolls, Dover sole, and spicy lobster pasta. Although that’s just for lunch and dinner—L’Avenue also serves breakfast and has an après-ski-themed lounge, Le Chalet, which has been the site of both Gigi Hadid’s birthday party and several Saturday Night Live after-parties.
One of the most iconic steakhouses in Manhattan, Keens has been serving enormous mutton chops to New Yorkers since 1885 under a ceiling of 45,000 smoking pipes that once belonged to names like Teddy Roosevelt and Babe Ruth. (Fun fact: Keens has the largest collection of churchwarden pipes in the world.) Obviously, order a steak—and maybe a Caesar salad or a wedge. Try to save room for the banana fosters for dessert.
Pebble Bar.Photo: Max Flatow
Pebble Bar—whose starry investors include Mark Ronson and Nicholas Braun—is housed in a four-story townhouse among the skyscrapers of Rockefeller Center. Sip a martini amid the madness in interiors by AD100 interior design firm Gachot Studios, who adorned it in a moody Art Deco meets retro 1960s aesthetic. (Think: marble oyster bar, brass table lamps, floral House of Hackney pillows, Eames lounge chairs, and velvet couches.) There’s also a seafood-focused bar snacks menu, which includes everything from lobster rolls to coconut crab ceviche.
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