Oh, the places you’ll go (to relax from work)
WAG asks three travel specialists where and when it is prudent to travel.
Solid as the Rock (of Gibraltar)
The stubborn, recalcitrant, headstrong Rock of Gibraltar, a financial services center, has become a byword for something unchanging and dependable, somewhere that refuses to change regardless of fad, fashion or the prevailing wind – which is undoubtedly why the Prudential insurance company uses The Rock in its logo.
A ‘Royal’ family business
Not your average “family” business – the high-end kitchen appliance supplier Royal Green has many roots and even more branches.
An ‘angelic’ venture into reusing kitchens
A repurposed kitchen from Renovation Angel benefits the seller, the buyer, the environment and a host of charitable concerns.
Bringing the heat to Brazilian food
The latest “branch” of an internationally renowned Brazilian steakhouse chain opens in an historic banking building in White Plains.
Glorious Glenmere
Their restored Gilded Age mansion in Orange County, Glenmere, may well be the finest small hotel in North America.
A fashion photographer in love with the land
If success has taken Federico Cannata to Milan and the upper echelons of the fashion world and fashion photography – he has photographed the likes of Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Edie Campbell, as well as worked with Alberta Ferretti, Emilio Pucci and Dolce & Gabbana among other big-name brands – his heart remains in Sicily.
Perf surf and turf
In a historic Southampton building, a well-known Tex-Mex restaurant has turned into a modern steakhouse-cum-sushi bar
Forza Forni pizza ovens are white hot
A personal pizza oven could be this summer’s latest backyard accessory.
That old Maine magic
Far from the madding summer crowd, Hidden Pond is a sophisticated resort with luxurious accommodations and a superb restaurant.
marble man
Family history matters to third-generation marble-man Steve Cavazzi
how to be ‘the perfect gentleman’
If you have ever felt inappropriately dressed, or would simply like to raise your sartorial game, “The Perfect Gentleman: The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style in London” ($60, 224 pages), to be published by Thames & Hudson on April 20th, is undoubtedly the book for you.
Dinner at DD’s Diner with dad
Even poor service can’t spoil the fun of a visit to DD’s Diner.
In a class by itself
With South Beach overrun with spring-breakers and currently under curfew, the smart (and quiet) money is in Coconut Grove.
Putting the joie in the vivre
A Nyack hotel transitions into a fully-fledged urban resort.
Saving pets – and veterinarians
Recently retired veterinarian Gwen Sherman, a lover of horse power of both the four-legged and four-wheeled kind, reflects on a 40-year career devoted not only to compassionate care for pets but now to the alarming trend to suicide among veterinarians.
The store’s the thing at The Hamlet
Our resident Brit, Jeremy Wayne, revisits his roots at The Hamlet, a new Mount Kisco store specializing in all things British.
A feather in the cap of Tarrytown dining
Modern Cantonese cooking comes to the historic King Mansion in Tarrytown.
Grand hotels, still
Despite the pandemic, old hotels have been renovating and new hotels have been opening space.
Supervet
Baby orangutan hernias, lioness fractures: They’re some of the more unusual cases encountered by oncological veterinarian and Ironman Thomas Monaco of the Katonah Bedford Veterinary Center.