DB Bistro Moderne

A modern French-American bistro where the traditions of French cuisine meet the flavors of the American market with a menu reflecting the changing seasons and a focus on the simplicity of fine ingredients. DB is Daniel Boulud's interpretation of the new generation of Parisian bistros whose classically trained chefs offer creative cuisine in a casual, comfortable and contemporary setting. His New York rendition combines the youthful energy of his adopted city with the Gallic flair of the country he left behind. Located in midtown at the crossroads of fashion and theater, Daniel Boulud's latest restaurant promises dining that is as easy going and convivial as it is delicious.

RESERVATIONS
Reservations taken and recommended up to one month in advance to the date. We accept reservations by phone and also on the internet via opentable. American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard & Visa accepted.

HOURS
Breakfast: Monday to Friday 7-10AM Saturday & Sunday 8-11AM
Lunch: Monday to Saturday 12 noon to 2:30PM
Dinner: Seven days
Mon 5-10PM, Tue 5-11PM, Wed & Thur 5:15-11PM,
Fri & Sat, 5-11:30PM, Sun 5-10PM
Bar: Monday to Saturday 12 noon to closing

MENUS
Lunch prix fixe: two courses $35-$40 includes main course & choice of appetizer or dessert.
Lunch à la carte entrées $28-36
Dinner and Post-theater à la carte entrées $28-36
Pre -theater Prix-fixe, three course dinner $48


55 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Tel 212.391.2400
Fax 212.391.1188

***

Nino's Positano

"If your deal making activities include a splash of romance, look no further than Nino's Positano, an elegant new Italian eatery in the mid-fifties. The intimate, step-down main dining room with its textured-sienna colored walls, soft murals of the Positano coast, mirrored columns, and plush banquettes punctuated with fluffy-bolsters is refined and bathed in warm lighting. Soft music plays in the background and there is an attractive bar area and a third, more casual room as one enters."
-J. Walman

***

Kohei Yoshiyuki @ Yossi Milo Gallery

Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park
September 6, 2007–October 20, 2007
Artist's Reception & Book Signing
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 6:00–8:00 pm

Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce The Park, an exhibition of black-and-white photographs from the 1970s by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki. The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 6, and close on Saturday, October 20, with a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 6, from 6:00 to 8:00pm. This will be Mr. Yoshiyuki’s first solo exhibition in the United States and his first exhibition since 1980.

For these photos, taken in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Mr. Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to document the people who gathered there at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched—and sometimes participated in—these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, both homosexual and heterosexual, but also provoke questions about our own attitudes towards surveillance and voyeurism. Collectively, these photographs also serve as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see; as Martin Parr writes in The Photobook: A History, Volume II, The Park is “a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing perfectly the loneliness, sadness, and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”

The exhibition will also include photographs from Mr. Yoshiyuki’s 1978 companion project, Love Hotel. The artist accessed some of the unerased videotapes made by clients of one of Japan’s infamous rooms-by-the-hour hotels and photographed the still images. The resulting pictures are grainy abstractions of faceless, nameless people caught, mid-act, in lovemaking.

A book published by Hatje Cantz and Yossi Milo Gallery will accompany the exhibition, and will include an original essay by Vince Aletti and an interview with the artist by Nobuyoshi Araki that was originally published in a 1980 monograph of the artist’s work. Kohei Yoshiyuki was born in 1946 in Japan, where he currently lives and works.

***

Apple Planning a Fourth NYC Store?

You're looking at architectural mockups of a potential 4th NYC Apple store, a 27,900 square-foot, two or three story behemoth sitting right across the street from the Empire State Building in the tourist-packed hellhole of midtown east. This store would be in addition to the Meatpacking District store currently under development, which is in a much "hipper" yet no less horrible neighborhood.

[via gizmodo]

***