Category New York
I never get tired of New York
Another quick trip to New York today. This time to attend a dinner with law students that we are recruiting from Columbia and NYU. Timing wasn’t the most convenient — there’s a lot going on at work at the moment — but it’s basically impossible not to enjoy a trip to New York. Things got […]
NYC – Saturday in Manhattan
I had a few hours this morning before my train back to DC, so I set out to make the most of a Saturday morning in Manhattan. After a quick breakfast at Dean & Deluca (consisting of orange juice, a banana, and a chocolate chip scone), I headed down to the Union Square farmers market […]
NYC – Danji
After Sleep No More I headed up to Hell’s Kitchen and got on the waiting list for dinner at Danji. This is a tiny Korean restaurant that I’d discovered in the Michelin guide – it’s got one star, the first Korean restaurant to get a star. Amanda and I had tried to go there when […]
NYC – Sleep No More
As I mentioned in my post on Wednesday, I came to New York to interview law students applying to the firm’s recruiting program next summer. All of Thursday was spent doing just that: Between 9am and 5pm, I interviewed twenty students (trying all the while to figure out how to invent better interview questions and […]
NYC – Two more stars chez Soto
After barely a week at home, I’m on the road again. This time to New York. I’m part of the recruiting team that the firm sent to interview students at one of the law schools here. I took the train up this afternoon so that I’d be ready for the interviews first thing in the […]
New York & DC – Two Snow Whites
Last night after seeing Tribes, we realized that the night was still young (it was only 9:45pm). So we ran back up to the movie theater at Lincoln Square and caught a screening of Mirror Mirror, the new Snow White movie with Julia Roberts and a handful of other interesting people. (And yes, if you’re keeping […]
New York – Sightseeing
Lest someone accuse us of not being well-rounded in our dining/theater spree, Amanda and I managed to work some sight-seeing into our itinerary. Our first interest was to see the recently finished renovations/remodeling of Lincoln Center. Over the last four years the arts complex had tried to undo some of the unfortunate architectural blunders of the original layout, […]
New York – Gastronomical Happiness Realized
While opera was the primary objective of this trip to New York, food was an certainly an ulterior motive. As thanks for many hours of hard work last year, one of my clients gave me a generous American Express diner’s gift card. I could think of no better way to use that gift card than by exploring the culinary […]
New York – Love Potions and Sign Language
L’Elisir d’Amore The whole point of coming to New York this weekend was to see Juan Diego Florez sing the role of Nemorino in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of L’Elisir d’Amore. It’s a popular bel canto opera by Donizetti that tells the tale of a lovelorn country boy who would do anything to catch the […]
New York – Friday Night
Last night after work I met up with Amanda and we ushered in the weekend in proper style with dinner at Maze by Gordon Ramsay, at the London Hotel. It was described in the Michelin as “the Pippa to Gordon Ramsay’s Kate Middleton,” “sexy and elegant,” and “chic-Paris in its smoky-mirrored, teal banquetted, shimmering glass […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 