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JOURNEY Cafe Frites

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Cafe Frites

Embark on a culinary odyssey at Cafe Frites, an avant-garde concept nestled within the iconic restaurant Journey, located in the vibrant Flatiron district. Immerse yourself in a symphony of senses with our offering of a choice of succulent steak, tender chicken, or delectable fish, all meticulously curated by the culinary genius, celebrity chef Judy Anderson.

Monday - Saturday

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Tuesday - Sunday

5:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Saturday & Sunday

SEATING CAPACITY

Seating 75 Guests

Standing 85 Guests

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JOURNEY, a unique dining entertainment enterprise, introduces theatrical gastronomy to New York City, with an exciting blend of immersive video installations, fine dining, fashion tech and theatre. Created through the collaboration of a top team culled from the worlds of Broadway, fashion, multi-media and the culinary arts, JOURNEY is a wholly original experience.

Located at 27 West 24th Street, New York, NY  10010, JOURNEY incorporates four unique experiences under one roof:  Journey 360 , where the 360 degree projections transport you from the communal table to five exotic locations for each of the courses of the pre fix meal; Journey Odyssey and Journey Voyager , where the tabletops come to life with stunning images of global travel; Journey Lounge , where entertaining mystery and curiosities await as you enjoy a mix of live and filmed entertainment; and Journey A La Carte, where augmented reality brings the dinner plates to life.

A unique lounge with a delicious Small Bites menu featuring our exclusive cocktail videos starring Broadway performers, inventive craft cocktails, and ever-changing content on the video “paintings” in a cozy setting designed by Tony Award winner David Gallo.

Tuesday - Saturday

Sat & Sun

BAR & LOUNGE

Tue - Thu 4pm - 12am

Fri & Sat 4pm - 1:30am; Sun 4pm - 10pm

360 EXPERIENCE

The Journey Experience is the perfect place to HOST YOUR SPECIAL EVENT up to 300 guests, either if is a RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS, or a CORPORATE EVENTS,  we'll customized your needs to make an unforgettable experience.

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THE MAIN DINING ROOM

Seated Capacity 50 -75 Guests | BOOK

Seated Capacity 100 - 120 Guests | BOOK

THE VOYAGER EXPERIENCE

THE 360 EXPERIENCE

Seated Capacity 20 - 25 Guests | BOOK

Seated Capacity 30-40 Guests

THE VOYAGER

A ticketed event where guests will be able to participate in this multisensory culinary journey in smaller groups – at tables accommodating 2 to 4 people. In Journey Voyager, a three course pre fixe meal offers tantalizing images of world travel as you enjoy your meal.

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Guests are seated at a communal table surrounded by kinetic images as travel to dramatic settings for each course, from a fantastic waterfall in the Rain Forest to the side of a volcano to an underwater shipwreck. The magnificent five-course prix fixe meal will end with a futuristic, otherworldly dessert set in an out of this world location. Every setting has been designed to complement the cuisine while bringing the astonishing world to your table.

DINNER SHOW - MON CLOSED

Sunday - Thursday @ 6:30 pm

Fri & Sat @ 6:30pm & @ 8:30 pm

5 COURSE PRIX FIXE

Sun - Thu $150

Fri & Sat  $175

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I had dinner inside a ‘volcano’ at this new immersive restaurant and bar

This new spot near Madison Square Park brings theatricality to your dinner plate.

On Monday, my dinner table began smoking and my dish emerged from a glass cover filled with even more smoke. The room glowed with the amber-red hue of lava and the sound of crackling fire filled the space. 

I was at Journey , a new restaurant, bar and lounge that is bringing “theatrical gastronomy” to New York City with immersive video installations paired with fine dining and mixology.

On its surface, it may sound like a gimmick, but a deeper dive—actually experiencing it—yields a fun night out with actually good drinks and food.

RECOMMENDED: You must solve a cipher to enter this speakeasy-styled restaurant and bar

Journey, which had a soft opening this week at its Madison Square Park location at 27 West 24th Street, is a celebration of travel and the connections we make with people on our…well, journeys. 

The playfully-decorated space shows off a massive collection of globes from thrift shops and antique stores, 3D sculptures of the world’s most famous landmarks and buildings above its bar, a display of replica antiquities, and a wall of moving classical art a-la Harry Potter.  

Each area within the space—the bar, the salon, and the café—has a theatrical element. 

At the bar, the cocktails you order (Legends of the Fall, Bloody Sunset, Apocalypto and Adordable Ruby) have accompanying comedic skits via augmented reality projected right in front of you on the bar top, including whiskey professor Ben Vereen.

In the “Epic Café,” where you can order a casual breakfast, lunch or dinner, the dishware has hidden 3D designs that you can unlock through an app on your phone.

In the beautiful and boothed Salon, which contains the collection of replica antiquities, projections bring sculptures to life and a hostess bedecked in stunning “FashionTech” couture tells you the stories behind them, adding a layer of live performance to your experience.

The bar, Salon and Epic Café each have their own menus from chef Edward Hong.

Two additional experiences are available at Journey: Journey Odyssey and Journey 360.

Opening on Friday, the 50-seat, ticketed experience Journey Odyssey creates a multisensory dinner experience at tables for two and four. Some of Broadway’s most talented performers— Cady Huffman and Judy Kaye —have filmed a series of amusing vignettes that introduce each of the five courses, which hail from different locales: an appetizer in Tokyo, the first course in Venice, and the entrée in Buenos Aires.

Perhaps the most impressive and immersive of all the experiences at Journey is Journey 360, which is where the firey table inside a volcano exists.

The ticketed culinary adventure, which fits 20 people at a time around a long, communal table, features 360 projection mapping that transports diners to four different locations across the world.

On Monday, I did the 360 experience and was whisked away (on a virtual airship named Celestine) from the top of the Empire State Building to the Amazonian rainforest to the artic, from a shipwreck under the sea to the inside of a volcano and finally to outer space. Throughout the entire five-course prix-fixe meal, the visuals and soundscape surrounding us were entertaining and were made even more exciting by an actor wearing a techie dress who led us through the trip.

Each dish corresponded to a setting—Amazonian greens (a salad made with Yuca, tocacho, hearts of palm, Cupaucu vinaigrette) in the rainforest; gin-cured arctic salmon (with cucumber, horseradish, apple and dill) at the Artic; black cod (with miyoga, bok choy and yuzu dashi glaze) under the sea; braised veal cheek (with forbidden rice risotto, harissa and marscapone); and raspberry mousse with chocolate gelato (almond texture, cardamom foam and Grand Marnier) in space.

While in the volcano, waiters placed dry ice on the table to make it smoke, then they brought out the veal, covered with glass domes. In one synchronous movement, the waiters lifted the domes and vapor poured out across the dish and our place settings. It was the crescendo, the high point, of the entire meal and it was indeed theatrical.

And yes, the visuals were fun, but the best part of the whole experience was seeing this all unfold with the people (strangers) around me. I ended up grabbing cocktails with a couple sitting across the way afterward in the salon, which is not a typical thing for me to do.

If you want to take your own journey in the middle of midtown, tickets for the shows Journey 360 and Journey Odyssey ($175pp) are available on the Tock app and at exploretock.com . Reservations for the Café or the Salon can be made through Open Table.

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JOURNEY, a new immersive dining experience, comes to NYC January 5, 2023, 11:58.33 am ET

JOURNEY, a unique New York City dining entertainment experience, is blending immersive video installations with fine dining, fashion, and theatre.

Journey’s Executive Producer Marc Routh calls it one of the “most amazing collaborations” with Executive Chef Edward Hong’s delicious culinary inventions taking center stage.

JOURNEY incorporates four unique experiences under one roof: JOURNEY 360, where the 360-degree projections transport you from the communal table to five exotic locations for each of the courses of the prix fixe meal; JOURNEY Odyssey, where live and filmed performance brings the diners’ tabletops to life with comic adventures led by an award-winning Broadway cast; JOURNEY Salon, where entertaining mystery and curiosities await as you enjoy a mix of live and filmed entertainment; and JOURNEY AR Café, where augmented reality brings the dinner plates to life.

The menu includes dishes such as New York City - Tomato with Smoked Crème Fraiche, Crispy Shallots, Red Onion Jam, and Basil; Rain Forest - Amazonia Greens with Yuca, Tacacho, Hearts of Palm, and Cupaucu Vinaigrette; Volcano - King Oyster Mushroom with Forbidden Rice Risotto, Harissa, Mascarpone; and Out of Space - Raspberry Mousse with Chocolate Ice Cream, Almond Textures, and Cardamom Foam. Cocktails come with names like Apocalypto (Mezcal Joven, D’Aristi Xtabentum Honey Liquor, egg whites, lime juice and cinnamon), and Tsukimi (Sweet Potato Shochu, Sweet Potato Puree, Maple-Cinnamon Syrup, Chocolate Bitters and garnished with a Sweet Potato Chip)

Each journey costs $175 per person and runs from 6-8 pm. Here is the schedule of events.

JOURNEY 360 : Currently open 20 PPL: A ticketed event that begins on a Zeppelin tethered to the Empire State Building circa 2022. Guests will sit at a communal table with floor-to-ceiling and tabletop 360 projection mapping. Travel to dramatic settings for each course, from a fantastic waterfall in the Rain Forest to the side of a volcano to an underwater shipwreck. The magnificent five-course prix fixe meal will end with a futuristic, otherworldly dessert set in an out-of-this-world location. Every setting has been designed to complement the cuisine while bringing the astonishing world to your table.

JOURNEY Salon Currently open A non-ticketed environment featuring a unique bar with tapas offerings. Featuring a room showcasing paintings and objects that come to life with 3-D animation, a hostess bedecked in stunning FashionTech couture, and flights of cocktails with integrated video directly on your bartop, the Lounge is the perfect place to hang out casually with friends before and after the sit-down dinner or as a destination all its own.

JOURNEY Epic Café opening within the next week: Indulge your senses from morning to evening at Journey. First of its kind, combining café, bar, and immersive fine dining with a touch of theater, all in the heart of New York City. Open for breakfast, lunch, and casual dining, where augmented reality reveals the hidden three-dimensional designs on the custom dishware and features street-side dining during the warmer months.

JOURNEY Odyssey Opening 1/26 50 PPL: Guests to this ticketed event will be able to participate in this multisensory culinary Journey in smaller groups – at tables accommodating 2 to 4 people. Broadway’s most talented performers bring to life a series of comic vignettes to introduce each of the five courses. Have your appetizer in Tokyo, your first course in Venice, and your entrée in Buenos Aires with equal measures of inventive cuisine and diverting humor.

JOURNEY is located at 27 West 24th Street, New York, NY. Tickets for the shows Journey 360 and Journey Odyssey are available at Tock, or at exploretock.com ; Reservations for the Café or the Salon can be made through OpenTable .

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Journey, a One-of-a-Kind Restaurant in New York City, Is Not to Be Missed: Details on the Unique Dining Experience

Nov. 3 2023, Published 5:02 p.m. ET

If you've ever wanted to see dinner AND a show, here's your chance! Journey NYC , located in the Big Apple , is a unique dining experience that you won't get anywhere else.

From immersive video installations to fine dining, the experience is one you won't forget, as it "takes you around the world without ever leaving the dinner table," the restaurant's website reads.

The restaurant is located in NYC.

"Journey introduces theatrical gastronomy to New York City , a wholly original entertainment and dining concept blending fine dining with an immersive experience created by a world-class team of video, fashion and Broadway creators," Co-Owner/Founder Marc Routh exclusively tells Morning Honey .

"In our increasingly fragmented society where we spend so much time isolated behind our various screens and devices, there is a heightened desire to join together. As a Broadway producer, I am aware that we’re competing for our audiences’ time with social experiences, so bringing together great food, design and performance in a playful integrated setting offers a unique and satisfying challenge," Routh adds.

The concept is original!

Journey combines four separate experiences under one roof, which makes it all the more fun!

Journey 360 combines a five course pre fixe dinner created by our award-winning international chef Diego Negri with state of the art 360-degree projection technology. The adventure is guided by a live performer with the guests seated at a communal table.

Journey Voyager and Journey Odyssey are different dining experiences utilizing tabletop projections. Patrons are seated at their own individual tables in an intimate room enveloped by the Dawn to Dusk Mural.

Stella Lounge features cocktails accompanied by comic bar top videos, inventive craft cocktails, and ever-changing content on the video “paintings” in a cozy lounge designed by Tony Award winner David Gallo.

Journey A La Carte places Chef Diego Negri’s inspired culinary creations centerstage in a setting featuring 3 D Models of famous architecture from around the globe and dinner plates designed with an augmented reality component.

Chef Diego Negri worked on the menu.

Additionally, Chef Diego Negri , who has worked at notable restaurants such as St. Theo’s, Lupa, Marea and Eleven Madison Park, is in charge of the menu, which is not to be missed.

"The menu I created is an interaction and accumulation of my life experiences, that I have learned throughout my journey — resulting in the creation of authentic dishes," Negri exclusively tells Morning Honey . "For now, I recommend trying a bit of everything to experience the originality and the combination of textures that our dishes offer to your palate."

'The experience takes you around the world without ever leaving the dinner table,' the restaurant's website reads.

This one-of-a-kind restaurant, which was designed by Broadway vet David Gallo , was conceptualized by Co-Owners Alex Cesaria (NYC and Aspen Restauranteur) and Marc Routh (8-Time Tony Award Winning Broadway Producer), is not to be missed!

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JOURNEY, The Newest Immersive Theatrical Restaurant Experience… Opens

JOURNEY , @journeyexperiencenyc , a unique dining entertainment enterprise from Tony Award winning producer Marc Routh ( The Producers, Hairspray), introduces theatrical gastronomy to New York City with an exciting blend of immersive video installations, fine dining, fashion tech, and theatre. Created through the collaboration of a top team culled from the worlds of Broadway, fashion, multi-media, and the culinary arts, JOURNEY is a wholly original experience.

The centerpiece theatrical event is JOURNEY Odyssey , a virtual tabletop culinary experience written by Greg Edwards ( Application Pending ), directed by Tony winner John Rando ( Urinetown, On the Town, Back to the Future the Musical ), and featuring beloved Broadway talent, including Tony Award winners Judy Kaye and Cady Huffman , among others.

“Journey has come together as one of the most amazing collaborations I’ve ever been involved in,” says Marc Routh, Executive Producer, Journey/Broadway Asia International , L LC , “ with an eclectic group of artists from the worlds of theater, the visual arts, and new media as a backdrop for Executive Chef Edward Hong’s delicious culinary inventions.”

Located at 27 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10010, JOURNEY incorporates four unique experiences under one roof:

·       JOURNEY Odyssey, where live and filmed performance brings diners’ tabletops to life with comic adventures led by an award-winning Broadway cast;

·       JOURNEY 360 , where the 360-degree projections transport you from the communal table to five exotic locations for each of the courses of the prix fixe meal;

·       JOURNEY Salon , where entertaining mystery and curiosities await as you enjoy a mix of live and filmed entertainment;

·       JOURNEY Epic Café, where augmented reality brings the dinner plates to life.

In addition to seeing Ms. Kaye and Ms. Huffman in JOURNEY Odyssey, Broadway fans will delight in spotting other stage and screen favorites, such as Tony Award winner Ben Vereen, Brad Oscar, Grace McLean, Paolo Montalban, Stephen DeRosa, Arnie Burton, Deborah S. Craig, and more throughout the various installations.  

Each JOURNEY costs  $175 per person, 7 days a week. 

JOURNEY 360 : Currently open 20 PPL: A ticketed event that begins on a Zeppelin tethered to the Empire State Building circa 2022. Guests will sit at a communal table with floor-to-ceiling and tabletop 360 projection mapping. Travel to dramatic settings for each course, from a fantastic waterfall in the Rain Forest to the side of a volcano to an underwater shipwreck. The magnificent five-course prix fixe meal will end with a futuristic, otherworldly dessert set in an out-of-this-world location. Every setting has been designed to complement the cuisine while bringing the astonishing world to your table.

JOURNEY Odyssey Opening 2/6 50 PPL : Guests to this ticketed event will be able to participate in this multisensory culinary Journey in smaller groups – at tables accommodating 2 to 4 people. Broadway’s most talented performers bring to life a series of comic vignettes to introduce each of the five courses. Have your appetizer in Tokyo, your first course in Venice, and your entrée in Buenos Aires with equal measures of inventive cuisine and diverting humor.

Additional information can be found on the journey experience. NYC. Tickets for the shows Journey 360 and Journey Odyssey are available at Tock, via the app, or at exploretock.com ; Reservations for the Café or the Salon can be made through Open Table. 

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The 2024 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations Announced

Wet Brain , produced by Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater, has the most nominations with 8; followed by Playwrights’ Stereophonic and Atlantic Theater’s Buena Vista Social Club with 7 – the latter being the most nominated musical.

Nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced today by Amber Iman and George Abud, two of the stars of the new Broadway musical, Lempicka . The 2024 Awards will be presented at the annual ceremony which will take place on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at NYU Skirball beginning at 7:00pm. The event will once again be open to the public, with tickets available for purchase beginning April 11 at tickets.nyu.edu or at the NYU Skirball box office Tuesday – Saturday 12pm – 6pm. As always, the Lortel Awards are a benefit for the Entertainment Community Fund, and fans are encouraged to make donations at LortelAwards.org . The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by TDF.

Alicia Keys earned a Lortel Award nomination for her semi-autobiographical new musical, Hell’s Kitchen , which recently transferred to Broadway. David Adjmi’s Stereophonic – nominated for 7 Lortel Awards – is also currently in performances on Broadway. All in all, for the 2023 – 2024 Off-Broadway season, 39 of the 75 eligible productions earned at least one Lortel Award nomination.

As previously announced, special honorees this year include Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Playwrights’ Sidewalk inductee Dominique Morisseau, and Ars Nova, who will be honored for their Outstanding Body of Work.

2024 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Outstanding Play

The Comeuppance

Produced by Signature Theatre

Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Plays For The Plague Year

Produced by The Public Theater

Written by Suzan-Lori Parks

Primary Trust

Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company

Written by Eboni Booth

Stereophonic

Produced by Playwrights Horizons

Written by David Adjmi

Produced by Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater

Written by John J. Caswell, Jr.

Outstanding Musical

Produced by Ars Nova and National Black Theatre

Created by nicHi douglas, with music by S T A R R Busby and JJJJJerome Ellis

Buena Vista Social Club

Produced by Atlantic Theater Company

Book by Marco Ramirez, Music by Buena Vista Social Club

Dead Outlaw

Produced by Audible Theater

Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek & Erik Della Penna, Book by Itamar Moses, Conceived by David Yazbek

Hell’s Kitchen

Music and Lyrics by Alicia Keys, Book by Kristoffer Diaz

Book and Music by Anna K. Jacobs, Book and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

Outstanding Revival

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Produced by Play Hooky Productions, Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jayne Baron Sherman, Stella La Rue, Roth-Manella Productions, Sony Music Masterworks, Jillian Robbins, David Binder, Folk Productions, Antonio Marion, Daniel Schwartz, Wessex Grove, Stephanie Choate, Hillary Wyatt

Written by John Patrick Shanley

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Produced by Classic Stage Company

Book by Jerome Weidman (based on his novel), Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome, Book revisions by John Weidman

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Produced by Irish Repertory Theatre Company

Written by Brian Friel

Sunset Baby

Produced by Signature Theatre Company

Written by Dominique Morisseau

Translations

Produced by Irish Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Solo Show

All The Devils Are Here – How Shakespeare Invented the Villain

Produced by Mara Isaacs, Thomas M. Neff, Willette and Manny Klausner, 42nd.Club, Daryl Roth

Written and Performed by Patrick Page

I Love You So Much I Could Die

Produced by New York Theatre Workshop

Written and Performed by Mona Pirnot

Make Me Gorgeous!

Produced by triangle productions!

Written by Donnie, Additional Material by Wade McCollum

Performed by Wade McCollum

Sorry For Your Loss

Produced by Audible

Written and Performed by Michael Cruz Kayne

Triple Threat

Produced by Brendan Gaul, Brett Henenberg, James T. Lane, and T32 Theatrical

Written and Performed by James T. Lane

Outstanding Director

Daniel Aukin – Stereophonic

David Cromer – Dead Outlaw

nicHi douglas – (pray)

Eric Ting – The Comeuppance

Dustin Wills – Wet Brain

Outstanding Choreographer

Camille A. Brown – Hell’s Kitchen

Graciela Daniele and Alex Sanchez – The Gardens of Anuncia

Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck – Buena Vista Social Club

Raja Feather Kelly – Teeth

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play

Christopher Abbott – Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Gabby Beans – Jonah

William Jackson Harper – Primary Trust

Nicole Ari Parker – The Refuge Plays

Josh Radnor – The Ally

A.J. Shively – Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Paco Tolson – The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play

Arnie Burton – Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors

Eli Gelb – Stereophonic

Carmen M. Herlihy – The Apiary

Florencia Lozano – Wet Brain

Julio Monge – Wet Brain

Bubba Weiler – Swing State

Frank Wood – Toros

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical

Natalie Venetia Belcon – Buena Vista Social Club

Jeb Brown – Dead Outlaw

Andrew Durand – Dead Outlaw

Santino Fontana – I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Priscilla Lopez – The Gardens of Anuncia

Alyse Alan Louis – Teeth

Maleah Joi Moon – Hell’s Kitchen

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical

Shoshana Bean – Hell’s Kitchen

Rodrick Covington – Rock & Roll Man

Kecia Lewis – Hell’s Kitchen

Jessica Molaskey – The Connector

Steven Pasquale – Teeth

Mel Semé – Buena Vista Social Club

Thom Sesma – Dead Outlaw

Outstanding Ensemble

Ariel Kayla Blackwood, S T A R R Busby, Ashely De La Rosa, Tina Fabrique, Satori Folkes-Stone, Amara Granderson, Taylor Symone Jackson, Ziiomi Louise Law, Aigner Mizzelle, Gayle Turner, Darnell White, D. Woods

Brittany Bradford, Caleb Eberhardt, Susannah Flood, Bobby Moreno, Shannon Tyo

Brittany Bellizeare, Christiana Clark, Eboni Edwards, Renita Lewis, Erica Matthews, Ciara Monique, Tamera Tomakili

Outstanding Scenic Design

Jason Ardizzone-West – shadow/land

Arnulfo Maldonado – Buena Vista Social Club

Arnulfo Maldonado – Dead Outlaw

Kate Noll – Wet Brain

David Zinn – Stereophonic

Outstanding Costume Design

Dede Ayite – Buena Vista Social Club

Enver Chakartash – Stereophonic

Linda Cho – The Half-God of Rainfall

DeShon Elem – (pray)

Lux Haac – Manahatta

Outstanding Lighting Design

Amith Chandrashaker – The Comeuppance

Jiyoun Chang – Stereophonic

Jen Schriever – Spain

Cha See – Wet Brain

John Torres – Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Outstanding Sound Design

Tei Blow & John Gasper – Wet Brain

Jonathan Deans – Buena Vista Social Club

Palmer Hefferan – The Comeuppance

Ryan Rumery – Stereophonic

Mikaal Sulaiman – (pray)

Outstanding Projection Design

59 Productions – Corruption

Nick Hussong – Wet Brain

Jared Mezzocchi – Poor Yella Rednecks

Jared Mezzocchi – Russian Troll Farm

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew – The Connector

HONORARY AWARDS

Lifetime achievement award.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee

Dominique Morisseau

Outstanding Body of Work

NOMINATIONS BY SHOW

Wet Brain – 8

Buena Vista Social Club – 7

Stereophonic – 7

Dead Outlaw – 6

Hell’s Kitchen – 5

The Comeuppance – 5

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – 3

I Can Get It for You Wholesale – 2

Philadelphia, Here I Come! – 2

Primary Trust – 2

The Connector – 2

The Gardens of Anuncia – 2

All The Devils Are Here – How Shakespeare Invented the Villain – 1

Corruption – 1

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors – 1

I Love You So Much I Could Die – 1

Make Me Gorgeous! – 1

Manahatta – 1

Plays For The Plague Year – 1

Poor Yella Rednecks – 1

Rock & Roll Man – 1

Russian Troll Farm – 1

shadow/land – 1

Sorry For Your Loss – 1

Sunset Baby – 1

Swing State – 1

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The Off-Broadway League’s Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee (Jeremy Adams, Alana Canty-Samuel, Tisa Chang, Carol Fishman, George Forbes, Kenneth Naanep, Ralph Peña, Catherine Russell, Michael Sag, Jonathan Whitton, Casey York, and Jeffrey Shubart, Chair) and the Lucille Lortel Theatre (George Forbes, Jeffrey Shubart, Nancy Hurvitz, Alana Canty-Samuel, Maura Le Viness, and Karla Liriano) produce the Lortel Awards Ceremony. Acclaimed writer/director Michael Heitzman directs the Lortel Awards with Terry Berliner as Co-Director. Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, United Scenic Artists, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, in addition to theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee.

ABOUT THE LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS

The Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were created in 1985 by the Off-Broadway League. The Lortel Awards recognize excellence in Off-Broadway by honoring the invaluable contribution of artists to the theatre community. Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, United Scenic Artists, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, in addition to theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee. Awards may be given in the following categories: Play, Musical, Solo Show, Revival, Alternative Theatrical Experience, Director, Choreographer, Lead Performer in a Play and Musical, Featured Performer in a Play and Musical, Ensemble, Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound, and Projection Design. The following honorary awards may also be given: Lifetime Achievement Award, Body of Work (awarded to an institution), Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award, and induction onto the Playwrights’ Sidewalk in front of the historic Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City. For more information, please see www.LortelAwards.org .

ABOUT THE OFF-BROADWAY LEAGUE

The Off-Broadway League was founded in 1959 to foster theatrical productions produced in Off-Broadway theatres (productions in Manhattan in venues with 76-499 seats), to assist in the voluntary exchange of information among its members, and to serve as a collective voice of its membership in pursuit of these goals. In recent years the League has grown to represent an average of 150 individual members and theatres and 100 non-for-profit and commercial shows per season.

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Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents Pascale Roger-McKeever and Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton

I am so pleased to announce our guest for next Wednesday’s show on April 10th are Pascale Roger-McKeever and Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton talking about their off Broadway show Fingers & Spoons.

Pascale Roger-McKeever

Playwright and performer Pascale Roger-McKeever is a mid-40s mom accepts her husband’s invitation to an open marriage. Provocative in its exploration of human vulnerability, the play acknowledges and embraces the acute discomfort of living out our inescapable sexuality – a shameless exploration of shame itself, this one-woman play turns many notions of self-empowerment on their head.

Fingers & Spoons is written and performed by Pascale Roger-McKeever and directed by Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton. The show begins previews on Thursday, April 25, 2024, and is set to open on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City.

Pascale Roger-McKeever studied acting in London with the likes of Rosa Cyrota from The Moscow Arts Theatre, and Joachim Tenschert from The Berliner Ensemble before moving to New York City for the American dream. Theater credits include Rosannah in Cindy Lou Johnson’s Brilliant Traces , May in Sam Sheperd’s Fool For Love , lead roles in Tennessee Williams’ This Property Is Condemned , Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen, I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow . Film credits include Dark Phoenix, Quitters, Deadly Garage Sale, The Last Smile. Directorial credits include Carole Frechette’s The Four Lives of Marie and 7 Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse. Plays written and produced include Family In Church, Love From Behind, and Milk No Sugar. Her screenplay The Way I Am is currently being shopped around in Los Angeles and France.

Austin Pendleton has an extensive career as a film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, theater director, and a teacher of acting. He has worked on and off Broadway and is a Tony Award nominee, recipient of Drama Desk and Obie Awards, Screen Actors Guild award winner, and ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company. He wrote Orson’s Shadow, Uncle Bob, and Booth  and the adaptation for A Minister’s Wife . Recent acting work includes the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’s The Minutes. Recent directing credits: Between Riverside and Crazy on Broadway (two Tony Award Nominations for that), Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya at Classic Stage Company. He has made more than 100 film and television appearances.

“Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents ”, is a new show filmed in the lobby of the iconic Hotel Edison, before a live audience. To see our first episode click here  second episode click here,   third episode click here,  fourth episode  click here,  fifth episode here , six episode here  and our seventh episode here.

Dawlcakes and Li-Lac Chocolates Collaborate For a Pop-Up With Cake + Chocolate Tasting Experience

Dawlcakes , the only doll cake bakery in Manhattan, is teaming up with Li-Lac Chocolates (75 Greenwhich Ave) , Manhattan’s Oldest Chocolate House, for a special cake + chocolate tasting on Saturday, April 6 from 9 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (a special time only for Dawlcakes event goers). The first 10 people will get a free chocolate “dawl”-shaped pop. Dawlcakes is offering three kinds of tasting experiences during this bespoke pop-up:

General Admission – Per Person – Enjoy one Dawlcakes treat, plus one 50% off coupon on any of our Dawlcakes products for sale that day (including our fully-made cakes and decorating kits). ($25)

VIP Ticket – Enjoy the first bites of our new line of Dawlcakes with chocolate dolls! This ticket gives you one Dawlcakes chocolate pop and one confetti cake to take home, plus two samples of our other delicious Dawlcakes flavors! Limit one ticket per individual. ($45)

VIP Ticket – Family Edition – Enjoy the first bites of our new line of Dawlcakes with chocolate dolls! This ticket gives you one Dawlcakes chocolate pop and one confetti cake to take home, plus two samples of our other delicious Dawlcakes flavors! Limit one ticket per family. Group family reservations encouraged! ($85)

People can save their spot here .

Dawlcakes is a family-friendly brand that offers cakes and decorating kits for families around New York and throughout the United States. In fact, Whoopi Goldberg featured her very own Sister Act Dawlcake at her 68th Birthday Party on The View. Other celebrities who have enjoyed Dawlcakes include Christian Siriano, Jenny Mollen, Jason Biggs, and Games of Thrones’ Sophie Turner. Spataro has also brought these cake experiences to other places around Manhattan, including Pink Chicken, private celebrations, and around the country.

Li-Lac Chocolates is the Oldest Chocolate House in Manhattan. With multiple locations around the city, Li-Lac is the go-to chocolate for families around the city.

When asked about this exciting collaboration, Spataro said, “Over the last few months, I’ve enjoyed working with Chris. I couldn’t be happier with our first pop-up and our future plans to collaborate. Joining together will bring a lot of smiles to people’s faces!”

Spataro added, when asked about the trajectory of Dawlcakes in particular, “Our highest hope is that we make easy baking and decorating more of a staple for families. You don’t need a lot of time or a bunch of gadgets to have fun together in the kitchen. I’m often asked to cater people’s bat mitzvahs, birthdays, etc. Nothing makes me happier than seeing parents and kids having fun together while they decorate cakes.”

Joanne Spataro: Joanne Spataro is an author, writing coach, and founder of Dawlcakes. Whoopi Goldberg named Dawlcakes one of her Favorite Things at her 68th Birthday Party Celebration on The View. She has worked with women-owned businesses, including Kismet, Eva Joan, and boutique children’s clothing store Pink Chicken. She makes appearances with the dawls at birthdays, celebrations, and pop-ups.

Celebrities have flocked to her baking pop-ups to bring home a “Pinky” dollcake to their children. She’s had pop-ups in the West Village, the Hamptons, and San Diego.

In addition, Joanne is the author of Preconceptions , a memoir about her queer and trans fertility journey. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Viceand The Huffington Post. She has discussed Preconceptions as part of GLAAD’s Hear My Story Series and with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Mollen on her podcast Third Wheel. Joanne’s memoir, Preconceptions, is available on Audible .

Joanne is based in New York City with her wife, Lara, and their child, aka her trusted consultant on Dawlcakes. www.dawlcakes.com

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Live from the hotel edison times square chronicles presents jayne atkinson, tim daly and adrienne campbell-holt.

“Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is a new show that is filmed live every Wednesday from 5 – 6 in the lobby of the iconic Hotel Edison, before a live audience. We will run the video on our site every Thursday and then it moves onto the podcast networks.

In this episode T2C’s publisher and owner Suzanna Bowling talks with Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly and Adrienne Campbell-Holt.

Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly and Adrienne Campbell-Holt

I am so grateful to my guests Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly and Adrienne Campbell-Holt for joining me. Thank-you Magda Katz for videoing and creating the content to go live, the audience who showed up to support us, Rommel Gopez and The Hotel Edison for their kindness and hospitality.

Scott Geres from The Edison Hotel Management, Suzanna Bowling, Tim Daly, Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly and Adrienne Campbell-Holt

Rommel Gopez and Scott Geres from The Edison Hotel Management, Suzanna Bowling, Tim Daly, Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly and Adrienne Campbell-Holt

Jayne and Tim will be starring in Still  by Lia Romeo. Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award), Still  begins previews on April 13, for a limited engagement through May 18, 2024, at DR2 Theatre (103 East 15th Street).

a selfie taken by Jayne Suzanna Bowling, Jayne Atkinson, Tim Daly, Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Craig J Horsley

You can catch us on the following platforms:

https://www.pandora.com/podcast/live-from-the-edison-hotel-times-square-chronicles-presents/PC:1001084740

https://www.stitcher.com/show/1084740

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e3ac5922-ada8-4868-b531-12d06e0576d3

Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-from-the-edison-hotel-times-square-chronicles-presents/id1731059092

We hope to see you there on April 10th. We will be announcing our guests tomorrow.

The Glorious Corner

G.H. Harding

DALTRY OUT — (Via Ultimate Classic Rock) Roger Daltry, has addressed his mortality, weeks after his 80th birthday.

The rocker, who hit the milestone on March 1, gave a long self-examination to U.K.’s The Times while explaining his decision to step down as the curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) charity concerts.

“I have to be realistic. I’m on my way out,” the legendary singer wrote. “The average life expectancy is 83 and with a bit of luck I’ll make that, but we need someone else to drive things.”

Roger Daltrey further detailed the nervousness he felt before recent shows, admitting concerns “about how many words” he had to remember. “We haven’t done anything for seven months and this winter’s been brutal,” the rocker noted. “I’ve been in hibernation. For the whole of January, I lost my voice completely. ”I live like a monk and if I went on tour for a week I’d be fit as a butcher’s dog again,”

Daltrey continued, “but tonight, for the first time in my career, I think, ‘Blimey, this is hard. ‘The rocker, who hit the milestone on March 1, gave a long self-examination to U.K.’ The Times while explaining his decision to step down as the curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) charity concerts. “I have to be realistic. I’m on my way out,” the legendary singer wrote. “The average life expectancy is 83 and with a bit of luck I’ll make that, but we need someone else to drive things.

Despite his trepidation, the 2024 Teenage Cancer Trust concerts were once again hailed as a triumph. The highlight was an  all-star rendition of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” featuring Daltrey alongside Robert Planet and Eddie Vedder. This marked the 24th and final year that Daltrey will serve as the event’s curator.

Daltrey will be hitting the road for a short run of intimate concerts in June. The singer will perform classic songs by the Who, as well as solo material, along with special question-and-answer sessions.

Meanwhile, Daltrey’s Who bandmate, Pete Townshend, has suggested the famed rockers could reconvene for one last trek.

“It feels to me like there’s one thing the Who can do,” Townshend explained to The New York Times, “and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.

Pete Townshend and David Salidor

PR-pasha David Salidor who first caught The Who in 1967 at Long Island’s Lido Beach Club says: “Daltry and Townshend and the entire group for that matter, changed my life and left an indelible mark on pop culture. I’ve seen them dozens of times over the years and even had the chance to reminiscence with Townshend at a Rockers On Broadway event a few years back; they’re timeless and brilliant. I mean, Tommy still stands as just a remarkable piece of work.”

Mark Ronson

RONSON’S WINEHOUSE — (Via Deadline) Mark Ronson was Amy Winehouse’s producer and collaborator who helped her reach great creative and commercial heights with her biggest songs.

But the Dail Mail reports that the role of Oscar winner Ronson has been cut from forthcoming biopic about the London singer. The movie is named after Winehouse’s second award-winning album and classic track, Back to Black, which Ronson produced.

It reports that Canadian actor Jeff Tunke filmed scenes in character as Ronson, but the scenes have been cut from the final edit, and Tunke’s name removed from the movie’s credits on IMDB.

The Mail quotes the biopic’s producers who explained: “The character of Mark Ronson has never appeared on screen in the film, so it would not have been possible to ‘cut all the scenes’ involving Mark Ronson as they do not exist.”

Ronson worked with Winehouse during her most productive time, collaborating on tracks Back to Black and Rehab. He later collaborated with Bruno Mars on global hit Uptown Funk, won an Oscar for his song Shallow from A Star is Born and composed the Barbie soundtrack.

He is reported to have previously helped creators of the biopic, taking the team around his studio where he worked with Winehouse, and recounting their time together.

The biopic stars Industry actress Marisa Abela as Winehouse, who died aged 27 in 2011, with Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and Eddie Marsan as her influential father Mitch. Sam Taylor-Johnson directs. The movie is scheduled for release on April 12.

Back To Black was in my opinion, a landmark album and if this is indeed true … I don’t get it. Truth be told, there are just soooo many docs out, I don’t know when you’d have time to watch them all; but this one I am looking very much forward to. I hear a Broadway-production is next!

SHORT TAKES — Andy Skurow, at Universal for 29 years, has left. Talented, knowledgeable, he’ll land in a great place for sure …

Felicity Hoffman

Felicity Hoffman, her career stalled for a bit because of that awful college admission scandal, has just signed on for Criminal Minds: Evolution – which will be streamed on Paramount + . She’ll essay the husband of the series late character Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin). Boy, everybody’s streaming – next up is Fox Nation … We came across the name Brett Winterble the other day. Where has he been? MIA for sure …

Rick Wakeman

Mark Strickland (late of All Access ) sent this story on Rick Wakeman. Just stunning. A must-read: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman?fbclid=IwAR2cnjEcC-zAlM0nF4t88PMDPzCllpVZUdXvFIUajQJOGKTPQkOoTft4XP8_aem_AeYJSaLoXik3rTFG8RsXZrUpg5n9RwMAJZv2CqADNTYtcnEvKNJSFwdcvhtkSStZzdw_hV6XcCgH8JldooIhzERp …

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Came w high expectations and willing to pay for exquisite cuisine. Having enjoyed immersive dining before my point of reference was high , but also paid dearly for the privilege including 20 percent tip. Wine pairing was sparkling wine , Sauvignon blanc, Pinot gris ,... Shiraz and an intended moscato which I believe was exchanged in error for a 2nd round of pinot Gris Reasonable tasting pours for all whites , tiny Shiraz pour. Food was decent starting w a salad overpured w vinegar , then an appetizer tuna tartar bite followed by a very tasty octopus dish. The favorite by far followed by halibut w edamame purre and subsequently short ribs w grapes and a small garnish on the side. Too easy , too little on the sides. Desert was insignificant and served in a non descript shell that took up more space than the 3 small bites of dessert inside the shell. The Service was ok, staff did good and engaging job but were supposed to be the garnish on a fabulous dining experience. The themed story line was ok however multiple Graphics are poor definition Disappointed to consider how much I paid for this considering quality. Visit Frenessi and see the type of execution to be expected at this price. More

Amazing drinks, atmosphere, and waitstaff! The interior design offers many surprises. For dinner, the 360 and Odyssey rooms require reservations which I did not have, but they looked amazing. I can’t wait to come back!

JOURNEY, New York City - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Reservations - Tripadvisor

This Theatrical Gastronomy Dining Experience Is Sure To Tantalize Your Taste Buds

Journey, a dining entertainment enterprise like no other, is serving up an unforgettable array of theatrical fine dining experiences you absolutely can't miss!

A world of beauty and adventure awaits at Journey , a global interactive dining experience. Located in Flatiron at 27 West 24th Street , Journey is spearheaded by individuals from all industries, stretching from fashion to Broadway, and culinary arts to multimedia. Think of it as a fine dining experience that’s been elevated by video installations, FashionTech, and theatre.

Helmed by Chef Edward Hong, the menu features New American cuisine with Korean influence that’s sure to satisfy. The entirely original concept takes interactive digital entertainment to the next level.

Diners can have their pick from four various experiences —each unique in their own exploration and flavor profile. They range from ticketed to non-ticketed events. Every show lasts for a duration of about 90 minutes. Guests are expected to arrive 20 minutes before their experience begins.

Whichever one you choose, it’s sure to be an unforgettable time. Find out which experience suits you best below (trust us, you can’t go wrong here):

Journey 360

This culinary voyage is a ticketed event that consists of transformative, floor-to-ceiling and tabletop 360 projection mappings. You’ll take your seat at a communal table fit for 20 and travel to five exotic destinations while you dine. Every course will take you on a new adventure, whether it’s a raging waterfall in the rainforest, the  side of a volcano, or an underwater shipwreck.

In total, Journey 360 is a five-course prix fixe meal, but insider tip, wait until you see the out-of-this-world (wink, wink) location you’ll be whisked away to at dessert. The experience truly brings you world-class dishes alongside a trip around the world, all without having to leave the table.

🍽 Book your Journey 360 reservation here

Journey Odyssey

Another ticketed event, Journey Odyssey is most similar to Journey 360 except much more intimate. Instead of sitting at a communal table of 20, you’re at tables of 2-4 people.

Throughout five courses, Broadway’s world-class performers will introduce you to a series of comic vignettes. Your appetizer will begin in Tokyo , but before you know it you’ll be jet setting to Venice for your first course and Buenos Aires for the entrée.

🍽 Book your Journey Odyssey reservation here

Journey Lounge

This non-ticketed event will seat you at a lavish bar filled with paintings and objects that come to life! 3D animations will surround and entertain you as hostesses in FashionTech couture supply you with cocktail flights with integrated video directly projected on the top of the bar.

This salon is the perfect before and after dinner drinks stop or place to impress your friends on a night out.

🍽 Reserve your Journey Lounge reservation here

Journey À La Carte

Journey À La Carte is NYC’s first-of-its-kind combination of a café, bar, and immersive fine dining with a dash of theater. Sounds like a whirlwind of entertainment, no?

From morning to night, Journey À La Carte is open from breakfast to dinner. Uncover hidden three-dimensional designs on the dishware thanks to the help of augmented reality. Plus, it even offers side-street dining in the warmer months.

🍽 Reserve your Journey À La Carte reservation here

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VIOSO Takes Diners on Immersive Journey in New York Restaurant

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June 15, 2023 - Case Studies , rAVe [PUBS] , RTA ,

Düsseldorf (Germany), 12th June 2023  – New Yorkers are taking their dinner with a side order of interactive storytelling at Journey, a unique new dining destination in New York, where VIOSO’s advanced auto-calibration technology is being used to whisk diners across the world without ever leaving the table.

Billed as ‘theatrical gastronomy’, Journey, at 27 West 24th Street, offers a multitude of ways to dine and be immersed in entertainment. An offering from the brains behind some of the biggest Broadway shows, utilizing the most advanced technology, Journey takes dining to the next level, pairing food by acclaimed chef Eddie Hong with projection-mapped visuals, audio, and live actors.

The Journey restaurant is divided into four experiences: Journey Lounge, Journey Epic Café, Journey Odyssey, and Journey 360. Thirty-seven ultra-high-definition video projectors, along with 12 OLED screens, fill the restaurant, totaling 250 million pixels.

One of the main challenges involved hiding from view the 37 projectors needed to create the experience. “We didn’t want this to look like a mess of AV equipment – the restaurant was designed by award-winning Broadway designers and has a unique aesthetic in itself, so I was dead-set on hiding the projectors in light shades and the ceiling as much as I possibly could,” explains Jason McFerran of integrator Illuminating Magic.

The star of the Journey experience is Journey 360, a private room that offers communal seating for up to 20 guests. Upon entering, diners are surrounded on every wall with seamless projection, even contiguous along the 24-foot table (12,288 pixels), while 12 projectors fill the chamber but hide neatly within the ceiling. Using a VIOSO camera calibration system, all projectors are kept in perfect warp and blend for the life of the establishment.

Illuminating Magic has previously worked on other immersive dining experiences, including Le Petit Chef at New York rooftop restaurant The View, whose combination of four-course dining with 3D visual storytelling (guests’ meals are ‘cooked’ by the eponymous chef, who stands 6cm tall) has garnered millions of views on social media. Journey, however, is the first to incorporate several different dining experiences with varying levels: wall animations, bar-top, tabletop, and full 360°.

The combination of a “cutting-edge video presentation with four channels of spatial audio to accompany your gastronomic adventure is what true immersion looks like – an unforgettable dining experience that caters to all five senses,” says Kevin Zevchik, US director of VIOSO. Further immersion is provided by enabling guests to interact with the environment around them – for example, by writing graffiti on the walls or creating unique snowflakes in the Arctic, all by using their smartphones.

Produced and developed by Zanim8tion, the Journey 360 video content – which includes journeys to the banks of the Amazon, the Atlantic Ocean floor, and the inside of an active volcano – was created completely in Unreal Engine with a custom-made four-camera rig that renders the immersive 360° views. This explains McFerran, came with additional “inherent risks, including camera intrinsics, parallaxes, Z-fighting, and quadrupled render errors”.

“Sustaining the 360° visuals is not only a feat from the content creation but also a requirement from the VIOSO auto-calibration,” adds Zevchik. “Given the nature of the buildings in New York City, it is nearly impossible to guarantee a perfect blend every day without auto-cal.”

Playback is also handled by VIOSO hardware, with an Anystation Media server, powered by IOversal Vertex, delivering the ultra-high-resolution visuals key to providing Journey 360’s sense of immersion.

Since launching, the restaurant – and in particular Journey 360 – has garnered rave reviews from critics and customers alike, with positive reviews in  Time Out  and the  New York Times  and being named one of the top-four dining experiences in New York City by  Forbes .

“We are delighted to have played our part in the creation of Journey, which has deservedly taken the New York dining scene by storm,” says Zevchik. “As a showcase for how immersive video, properly calibrated, can elevate the gastronomic experience, Journey has well and truly earned its place among the greatest dining experiences in the city that never sleeps.”

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VIOSO’s advanced auto-calibration technology is transporting diners to the North Pole and the bottom of a volcano at Journey, a new high-end dining experience in New York City

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VIOSO is helping New Yorkers to take their dinner with a side order of interactive storytelling at Journey, a unique new dining destination in New York, where the company’s advanced auto-calibration technology is being used to whisk diners across the world without ever leaving the table.

Billed as ‘theatrical gastronomy’, Journey, at 27 West 24th Street, offers a multitude of ways to dine and be immersed in entertainment. An offering from the brains behind some of the biggest Broadway shows, Journey pairs food by acclaimed chef Eddie Hong with projection-mapped visuals, audio and live actors.

One of the main challenges involved hiding from view the 37 projectors needed to create the experience. Jason McFerran from integrator Illuminating Magic explained: “We didn’t want this to look like a mess of AV equipment – the restaurant was designed by award-winning Broadway designers and has a unique aesthetic in itself, so I was dead-set in hiding the projectors in light shades and in the ceiling as much as I possibly could.”

The star of the Journey experience is Journey 360, a private room that offers communal seating for up to 20 guests. Upon entering, diners are surrounded on every wall with seamless projection, even contiguous along the 24-foot table (12,288 pixels), while 12 projectors fill the chamber but hide neatly within the ceiling. Using a VIOSO camera calibration system, all projectors are kept in perfect warp and blend for the life of the establishment.

Illuminating Magic has previously worked on other immersive dining experiences, including Le Petit Chef at New York rooftop restaurant The View, whose combination of four-course dining with 3D visual storytelling (guests’ meals are ‘cooked’ by the eponymous chef, who stands 6cm tall) has garnered millions of views on social media. Journey, however, is the first to incorporate several different dining experiences with varying levels: wall animations, bar-top, tabletop and full 360°.

The combination of a “cutting-edge video presentation with four channels of spatial audio to accompany your gastronomic adventure is what true immersion looks like – an unforgettable dining experience that caters to all five senses,” said Kevin Zevchik, US director of VIOSO. Further immersion is provided by enabling guests to interact with the environment around them – for example, by writing graffiti on the walls or creating unique snowflakes in the Arctic, all by using their smartphone.

Zevchik. added: “Sustaining the 360° visuals is not only a feat from the content creation, but also a requirement from the VIOSO auto-calibration. Given the nature of the buildings in New York City, it is nearly impossible to guarantee a perfect blend every day without auto-cal.”

Playback is also handled by VIOSO hardware, with an Anystation Media server, powered by IOversal Vertex, delivering the ultra-high-resolution visuals key to providing Journey 360’s sense of immersion.

Since launching, the restaurant – and in particular Journey 360 – has garnered rave reviews from critics and customers alike, with positive reviews in  Time Out  and the  New York Times  and being named one of the top-four dining experiences in New York City by  Forbes .

“We are delighted to have played our part in the creation of Journey, which has deservedly taken the New York dining scene by storm,” concluded Zevchik. “As a showcase for how immersive video, properly calibrated, can elevate the gastronomic experience, Journey has well and truly earned its place among the greatest dining experiences in the city that never sleeps.”

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A look behind the scenes at Zaytinya, which over two decades has remained one of the globe-trotting humanitarian’s most beloved spots.

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By Marcela Valdes. Photographs and videos by PEDEN + MUNK

• March 28, 2024

One afternoon this January, I watched the celebrity chef José Andrés flip through the page proofs of his newest cookbook, “Zaytinya.” He had the pages spread out over the glass top of a custom-made foosball table inside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the sprawling food group that bears his name. Here Andrés was like a king in his throne room. The José Andrés Group now directs more than 30 eateries — from a two-Michelin-starred restaurant to a food truck — as well as retail products, a podcast, newsletters and television programs. (His charitable organization, World Central Kitchen, runs through a separate nonprofit.)

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Yet Andrés’s success appeared to bring him little comfort. In his opinion, several of the cookbook’s images lacked flair. He didn’t like the way the mushrooms were photographed. He thought the Octopus Santorini needed more glistening olive oil. He flipped the pages morosely, mumbling to himself. “This one is bad.” “This one is bad. No, it’s next-level bad.” Others earned his grudging approval: “That’s OK.” “That’s OK.”

Andrés’s kingdom rose from the enduring popularity of several Washington restaurants — principally Jaleo, Oyamel, Zaytinya, minibar and China Chilcano. All specialize in small-plate menus, a dining concept Andrés pioneered in the 1990s. Many were opened with backing from the entrepreneurs Rob Wilder and Roberto Alvarez and are in Penn Quarter, near the National Portrait Gallery. Jaleo, a collaboration with the chef Ann Cashion, honors Spanish tapas; Oyamel does Mexican. Minibar serves “avant-garde cooking,” while China Chilcano dishes out Chinese and Japanese by way of Peru.

But the vegetable-centric Zaytinya has become one of the group’s most successful restaurants. When it first opened, in 2002, its modern interpretations of Greek, Lebanese and Turkish mezze bowled over diners in the capital, who were more used to steak and potatoes; on Saturday nights, they would happily wait two and half hours for a table. A year later, it was shortlisted for the James Beard Foundation’s award for the best new restaurant in America. Today, after more than two decades in business, Zaytinya is a kind of institution in Washington: a midpriced gourmet restaurant with dishes that start at $8, serving more than 700 people on a typical weekday and over a thousand on Saturdays and Sundays. It’s where my family takes out-of-town guests. It’s where we eat lunch before visiting museums on the Mall, where we grab a bite before a show.

The pages on the foosball table contained at-home versions of the dishes that Washingtonians love. There was a recipe for spanakopita, the spinach-and-feta pie. It’s usually served in a square or triangular slice, but Zaytinya’s is shaped like an egg roll and pan fried. There was a recipe for crispy brussels sprouts, which almost every table seems to order: sizzling wedges on a bed of garlic-confit yogurt, topped with lemony barberries. There were instructions for making Zaytinya’s phyllo dough and its cloud-light pita bread. The proofs looked gorgeous to me, but Andrés seemed disappointed that they weren’t even better. When he reached the last page, though, he seemed to realize the futility of his perfectionism and patted the messy pile with resignation.

“But it’s a good book, no?” he asked the group’s publishing director, Ann McCarthy, who used to be a managing editor at the gourmet magazine Saveur.

“It’s a great book,” she answered.

He sighed. Cookbooks rubbed him against his own mortality. He has an office filled with rare volumes, including early editions of Auguste Escoffier’s “Ma Cuisine” (first published in 1934), Irma S. Rombauer’s “The Joy of Cooking” (1931) and Ángel Muro’s “El Practicón” (1894). He recently traveled around Europe and the Middle East carrying, for light reading, a cookbook from the 1700s. Andrés had already published four cookbooks, but, at 54, he was all too aware that each new volume represented a chance to shape how he would be remembered.

With Zaytinya, part of that legacy may be his knack for research and team-building. Andrés had never even traveled to Greece when Alvarez, who was a vegetarian, suggested they open an eastern Mediterranean restaurant. To develop its menu, Andrés ate his way through Lebanon, Turkey and Greece, where he forged a lasting partnership with the cookbook author Aglaia Kremezi, who taught him to make Lenten-style dolmades (grape leaves stuffed with tomatoes, pine nuts and fennel). He learned to make hummus from Grace and Dany Abi-Najm, whose family owns the restaurant Lebanese Taverna. His process for making phyllo came from Abdelrazzaq Hashhoush, a Palestinian-Lebanese chef who was one of Zaytinya’s original cooks. Andrés and his team still make regular pilgrimages to explore the markets, restaurants and coffee shops of the eastern Mediterranean, often eating two breakfasts, three lunches and four dinners in a single day.

The heavy lifting for creating Zaytinya, of course, was complete decades ago. Since then, Andrés has developed other restaurants outside Washington. He has also become, arguably, more famous for his work on television and with World Central Kitchen — which provides food aid in the wake of natural disasters and violent conflicts — than he is as a restaurateur. But even as restaurants across the United States have shut down, Andrés has several in Washington that have survived not only the pandemic and inflation and labor shortages, but also the Great Recession of 2008, helping to transform a neighborhood once blighted by crime and store closures. When they signed the original lease for Zaytinya, Wilder told me, the portrait gallery was closed for renovations and no national restaurant company wanted its location on Ninth Street NW. Now there’s an Hermès store two blocks away.

During Zaytinya’s early years, Andrés haunted the kitchens of his Washington restaurants, working with each head chef and often standing at the pass to expedite dishes. But after the ThinkFoodGroup, as it was then named, opened its first restaurant in California, it was no longer possible for him to work in every kitchen. As the public face of an expanding company, he needed not only to establish menus but also to woo business partners and customers with public appearances.

“I feel like I’m a foreigner here,” he confessed as we sat over margaritas at Oyamel. There was a time, he said, when he would have known every person at the host stand, behind the bar, serving tables, washing pots, mixing guacamole. “I used to be much more a player,” he said, over another round. “Now I’m more the coach. They are the ones on the field.” A few days later, he hopped on a plane to make an appearance at an A-list cookout in the Cayman Islands.

At Zaytinya, Hilda Mazariegos is the person responsible for switching on the lights every morning. A middle-aged woman with a ready laugh, Mazariegos never attended a culinary school. She was on track to become a schoolteacher in Guatemala when she took a job at a restaurant in Virginia, thinking her work in kitchens would be temporary. Four months after Zaytinya opened, she was hired as a line cook on the fry station. She went on to master every other station in the kitchen: salad, sauté, grill, oven, flat top, bread and dessert. Now she is the restaurant’s executive sous chef. She can make each of its signature dishes from scratch and has trained most of its cooks. Many have worked at Zaytinya for more than five years. “I’ve been here for 13 months,” the head chef, Terry Natas, told me, “and I’m still the new guy.”

On the Thursday that I came to visit, I found Mazariegos in Zaytinya’s closet-size chefs’ office, working on the next week’s schedule. About 25 cooks and dishwashers are in the kitchen during each shift, and at 8 in the morning the space already hummed with the sound of staff members’ scrubbing down surfaces with soapy water. In the back prep kitchen, Antonio Machic, who was born in Guatemala and has been working at Zaytinya for about a decade, was trimming 80 pounds of chicken, saving the spare bits so that they could be added into stock.

“The beauty of this food is that everything is made like you make family food at home,” Mazariegos told me in Spanish, which is still her preferred language. Nearly every dish is made from scratch daily, which requires skill and attention. There are machines that make dolmades, for example, but at Zaytinya, they are filled and rolled by hand by a woman from El Salvador, Julia Hernandez, who produces them by the thousands every week. She also makes the restaurant’s juicy kibbeh, a football-shaped, cinnamon-spiced meatball that is encased in a crispy shell of bulgur wheat and ground beef.

That Thursday morning, Mazariegos made a batch of phyllo using the technique that she learned almost two decades ago directly from Abdelrazzaq Hashhoush. She flattened a dozen baseball-size rounds of dough into single sheets, each larger than a pillowcase. Then she layered these together with handfuls of cornstarch and ran a rolling pin over the stack until it turned into one thin, silky sheet, nearly the size of a throw blanket. “This is my workout,” she joked as she flipped the phyllo for the fourth time, using a long wooden dowel, and then rolled it even thinner. Phyllo made this way is more elastic than the kind sold in stores, so Zaytinya can stuff it with more spinach and shape it into a cylinder for spanakopita.

Michael Costa had no experience cooking Greek, Turkish or Lebanese food when he was hired, in 2010, to begin what would be an 11-year run as Zaytinya’s head chef. “Hilda trained me,” he explained over lunch. When he told Andrés that he was nervous about his inexperience, Andrés said not to worry: The way Zaytinya worked, it wouldn’t matter. “It took me a really long time to understand — like really, really understand — what he meant by that,” Costa said. “It’s a village of talented people who have contributed over the years, documenting and standardizing what we do so that we can be consistent.”

Local diners like their favorite dishes to remain unchanged. So Zaytinya’s cooks, most of them Spanish-speaking immigrants, excel at consistency. As they skewered kebabs, roasted eggplants and heated the base for the slightly pine-flavored mastic ice cream, nobody needed instructions: They just churned out enormous quantities of excellent food without a fuss. “There’s a shared understanding,” said Costa, who is now Zaytinya’s “concept chef.” He and Andrés often swap ideas just by texting each other photographs. “He’s in my head, in my bones,” Costa said, “whether I want him there or not.”

Andrés himself no longer spends much time worrying about Zaytinya. His mind is more consumed with other projects and challenges, not all of them happy. “You are catching me now in one of the little low points in the last 23 years of my life,” he told me, in his office, as we drank cava cocktails laced with cherry-blossom bitters. Over the last two years, he spent more than 100 days in Ukraine, weeks in post-earthquake Turkey and post-hurricane Mexico, days witnessing the horrors of Gaza. Seven volunteers for World Central Kitchen had been killed in Ukraine. His daughters were growing up and leaving home. And his business nearly sank during the pandemic, in part because the Jose Andrés Group decided to keep all its restaurants’ employees on payroll for six weeks during mandatory shutdowns. The only way for the company to survive afterward was for the partners to dilute their ownership and take on additional investors.

“Everything happens to you at once,” Andrés said. “And every time, you meet more people, and you have a phone filled with WhatsApp messages that you don’t have time to answer.” He showed me some: Among the texts from friends and family were hundreds from World Central Kitchen outposts in Japan, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel and Ukraine. Image after image of crises around the world. No wonder he felt a wave of dismay as he stared at a glossy photograph of mushrooms.

He was in a better mood when we talked again several days later, but he admitted that he often felt grumpy lately. “I don’t know, maybe with the things that are wrong in the world, I’m getting very anxious that we are not fixing them quick enough,” Andrés said. “I don’t even want people around me,” he added. “I want to go and I feel free. You know, when I’m in Gaza, I feel free. When I go to Turkey and I’m going around, I feel free. But I’ve been making sure that the restaurants are well run, behind. So in part, you could say I’ve been very selfish in giving the Costas of the world — ‘this is yours’ — because I’ve been getting my freedom to do other things. Because I’ve been running restaurants now for a long time.”

Zaytinya does run well without Andrés around, thanks to its village of chefs, managers and administrators. Last year, a new Zaytinya opened inside a Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York City. This year, another opened inside the Ritz-Carlton in South Beach, Fla. A third is slated for Las Vegas and another for Palo Alto, Calif. The expansion has been spearheaded by Sam Bakhshandehpour, who joined the group in 2020, and the head chefs at the new locations are supervised by Costa. Mazariegos has already traveled to New York and Florida to teach another generation to make phyllo, dolmades and kibbeh.

It’s hard to imagine, though, that Zaytinya will ever mean as much to anyone outside Washington. You can replicate the food and the décor and the cutlery, but you can’t replicate a restaurant’s role in the urban psyche. In Washington, Zaytinya isn’t a place where hotel guests grab breakfast or people go to spot celebrities. It’s where locals meet to woo, celebrate and negotiate. Food tourists come and go, but it’s regulars who carry Zaytinya through the slow weeks of winter.

I went back recently with my family for dinner. It was a mild March evening, and every table in the 5,764-square-foot dining area was taken. On a typical Friday night, attending to all those customers requires 17 servers, 17 bussers, seven runners, five hosts, four bartenders, four bar backs and three polishers. It feels strange to describe such a vast operation as homey, even if much of it is divided into softly lit alcoves and nooks. But a well-loved restaurant is like an extension of your living room, a space decorated not just with candles but with memories. I could almost see them shimmering like the water wall behind the host stand as I dipped my pita in olive oil: all the gossamer traces of bestie brunches, birthday parties, first-date dinners, Mother’s Day hugs and deal-making handshakes that Washingtonians had left there over 22 years.

Costa, Natas, Mazariegos and all the veterans in the kitchen have kept Zaytinya cooking while Andrés travels the world. If there is a secret to his success, it may be his ability to build such a reliable system. “For me, keeping a routine running for a long time is hard,” Andrés told me, in Spanish. “I can’t.”

Marcela Valdes is a staff writer for the magazine, primarily covering Latino and Latin American politics and culture. PEDEN + MUNK is a director-and-photographer team based in New York consisting of Taylor Peden and Jen Munkvold.

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This is just another walk in the park for folks in california.

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An earthquake in NYC? Yep!

New Yorkers got a little taste of what Californians deal with on a regular basis. A little shake from the Earth to get their day going!

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, which is about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.

The Fire Department of New York has said there has been no significant damage due to the earthquake, which is a good thing to hear in a region as heavily populated with sky scrappers as New York City.

Of course, poeple took to Twitter/X to make light of the earthquake, because honestly, this is all very new for a lot of New Yorkers! In California it’s normal, but for jaded New Yorkers, this is a whole new thing.

One of the best tweets from this morning came from the official account for the Empire State Building. In all caps, the account wrote, “I AM FINE.”

I AM FINE — Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) April 5, 2024

And thank goodness it is! The Empire State Building is a New York City landmark, so it’s great to know that it’s OK. If we could get Twitter updates from The Statue of Liberty, Times Square and One World Trade Center, that would be greatly appreciated.

People all over the east coast took to social media to describe the feeling of seeing things in their apartments or home shake, or even feeling the ground move. Authorities said that over 45 million people could have felt Friday morning’s earthquake.

A lot of New Yorkers also made light of the unusual earthquake on social media, and some of the posts are just too good not to share.

You don’t realise how many New Yorkers you follow until there’s an earthquake — Joe Gunn (@joegunn) April 5, 2024

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New York: pic.twitter.com/LBOtTHVOia — Queens of Bravo (@queensofbravo) April 5, 2024

alexa play i feel the earth move by carole king!!!! earthquakes in brooklyn!!!! — queen of the haus of kendall roy (@lochnessmanda) April 5, 2024

Leave it to New Yorkers to make light of an earthquake. Glad everyone is safe and sound!

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Top destinations in New York include a ferry ride, shopping for watches in Chinatown and a Brighton Beach bender

I first came to New York City by accident, after a miscommunication with my father led me to believe my (long-deceased) mother had been desperate to visit the city before she died.

Years later I found out that my mum had actually wanted to go to Paris. But I still had a great time in New York, and ended up moving here a couple of years later.

On that first trip I did all the main tourist things which, owing to the miscommunication, I had thought my mother had wanted to do: I went up big buildings, looked at big buildings, drank in bars beneath big buildings.

It was great and everything, but there’s much, much more to do here – especially if you like eating, riding about by subway and ferry, and bargaining for knockoff luxury goods.

Day 1: Boating and brownstones

A lot of people have heard of the Staten Island ferry , and for good reason. It’s free to travel on the big orange boats between the southern tip of Manhattan and Staten Island. The route goes right past the Statue of Liberty, and offers amazing views of lower Manhattan.

As a boat lover, I’d also recommend taking the NYC ferry . It has a flat fare of $4 and operates up and down the East River, passing under bridges and allowing riders to snoop at waterside buildings.

If you’re starting in Manhattan (which you probably are), take the southbound ferry from East 34th Street to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo, which stands for “down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass”. It’s here where everyone with an Instagram account gets their shots of both the Manhattan Bridge and the (older, better-known) Brooklyn Bridge. Plenty of people will visit this area then turn their back on Brooklyn, but I’d recommend sticking around New York City’s most populous and, depending whom you speak to, trendiest borough.

Pop by Jane’s Carousel , an exquisitely restored 1922 ride which is plonked between the bridges, and then walk south through Brooklyn Bridge Park. You’ll go past several piers – once working docks now transformed into leafy picnic and sport areas. There are magnificent views across to Manhattan. It’s a nice spot to propose to a partner, as my little brother did last year. If you don’t want to do that, but do like to play soccer or basketball or roller-skate, you’re in luck.

After you hit Pier 6, where there’s a pleasant, if expensive, rooftop pizza restaurant called Fornino , walk up Atlantic Avenue for some shopping and coffee at Goose Barnacle , an independent clothing store with a hidden bar in the back. The owner, Dave Alperin, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, is very friendly and knowledgable about the area and can give you tips about everything from where to buy the best sandwich ( Lillo Cucina Italiana – try the Mamma Roma) to the location of a semi-secret basement speakeasy ( Le Boudoir ) nearby.

From there I’d take a bus or cab to Fort Greene, a very pretty neighborhood whose townhouses are the sort of Brooklyn thing you see in the movies, and grab dinner at Olea . If you make it before 6.30pm, there’s a great happy hour.

Day 2: Rude T-shirts and not-quite Rolexes

Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood has all the posh shops, so if you have money, or like looking through windows at expensive clothes and bags, walk east along Prince Street from West Broadway. There are nice buildings to look at around here too – the newly constructed towers that abound in the city are largely absent in this neighborhood. Stop in at Fanelli Cafe , a neighborhood stalwart that has been around since 1847, for a coffee or some food, then head south along Broadway to Chinatown.

There are lots of great dim sum places, including Golden Unicorn , whose large fancy dining hall is located on the second floor of a marble-esque building. From there I’d take a walk along Canal Street, dipping into sidestreets for cheap souvenirs – snow globes, little statues and that sort of thing – and bizarre T-shirts (many of which are very rude).

Chinatown also does a roaring trade in imitation watches and handbags. So if, like me, you will not and cannot spend $30,000 on a watch but have about $100 to spare, you can get (to my eye) a fairly good imitation. The food markets along Canal Street also sell real nice timepieces – they even work – if you fancy sticking it to big watch. You’ll find plenty of “designer” bags too.

Hopefully you’re hungry again, because Great N Y Noodletown is, per its name, great – especially the roast pig on rice.

From there I’d head farther south and stop in at Whiskey Tavern , the friendliest bar I’ve ever been to in my life (and I’ve been to a lot of bars). They print out personalized welcome signs that they will stick to your table or behind the bar, which sounds a bit naff – but isn’t. The real reason to come is to chat to locals and regulars. It’s also one of the closest bars to city hall, which means there’s a regular stream of “Just Married” couples doing shots of whiskey and eating chicken wings.

If you’ve still got energy, and like singing or shouting, go to Up Stairs , a karaoke bar tucked behind a nondescript doorway on Canal Street. Drinks are cheap, and it gets packed with revelers.

Day 3: Seaside shenanigans

If, like me, you’re a fan of once-glamorous seaside attractions that are now in a state of faded glory, then take the F train to Coney Island. People seem to overlook the fact that the city is surrounded by water, and while Coney Island isn’t the nicest beach for bathing (for that, try Fort Tilden or Jacob Riis Park), there’s loads to do.

Kick things off by watching a Brooklyn Cyclones game. The Cyclones are a feeder team to the New York Mets. They play at Maimonides Park, tickets are usually dirt cheap and easy to get, and you’ll be able to enjoy a nice view of the Atlantic Ocean. If you want a snazzy memento, buy a beer in a foot-long plastic baseball bat. Sometimes they let the crowd “run the bases” after the game, which is a lot of fun, especially if you’ve had more than one of the baseball bat beers.

After the exhilaration of taking in second-tier baseball, walk east towards the Cyclone , one of the oldest and, as far as I can tell, rickety-est rollercoasters in the US. The wooden ride – described as “pretty extreme” by Coaster Critic – will celebrate its 100th birthday in 2027, and it sounds and looks its age. Buyer beware.

Once you’ve stumbled off the ride, go for a settling drink at Ruby’s , the oldest bar on the boardwalk. You can take in the black-and-white shots of Coney Island in its 1930s glory, and if you’re feeling brave, buy a cardboard box full of clams.

Every Friday night from late June to September there is a fireworks show on the beach, which draws a large crowd. You could take it in while eating borscht and sipping coffee or vodka at Tatiana’s , a Russian restaurant-cum-nightclub a 10-minute walk along the boardwalk from the Cyclone.

Side note: you don’t need to wait until summer to visit. I went a day after it had snowed, and it was brilliant.

Question time

How many days do you need to visit new york city.

Three would be fine. If you want to take in all the Instagram favorite destinations, then maybe four.

What’s the most-visited attraction? Is it worth it?

Times Square. And not really. But it’s near enough to other attractions that if you’re heading to a Broadway show then you might as well walk through it.

When is the best time to visit?

The peak of summer can be boiling hot, and winter can be freezing cold. May through early July and September through October are usually a safe bet.

How expensive is it?

New York City is expensive. If you’re staying in Manhattan you’d be (very) lucky to get a hotel room for about $200 a night – but bear in mind that there will usually be hefty taxes on top of that. A bog standard coffee will cost you about $5, a pint anywhere from $6 to $10. The subway fare recently went up: it’s $2.90 a ride now.

Adam Gabbatt is a writer for the Guardian and is originally from the north of England. He has lived in New York City for 13 years and now says “trash” instead of “rubbish” and “sidewalk” instead of “pavement” and his family hates him for it

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• Dining style Casual Dining
• Price $50 and over
• Cuisines American
• Hours of Operation Tue–Sun 5:00 pm–10:00 pm
• Phone number (212) 796-0607
• Website https://journeyexperience.nyc/
• Payment Options AMEX, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
• Dress Code Casual Dress
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• Catering We can offer the intimate 20 room Journey 360, the 56 person Odyssey Room, the 100 person lounge or the 60 seat Main Dining Room and 30 seat bar for different sized events.
• Private party facilities Journey is a perfect location from groups from 10-300. Contact us at [email protected]
• Location 27 W 24th St, New York, NY 10010
• Cross Street 5th and 6th Avenues
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Story behind New York’s hottest restaurant, Hamburger America

CHICAGO — Like many of you, like many of the people in Chicago and in this country, I like hamburgers. But no one I have ever met likes (and knows more about) hamburgers than George Motz. I first met him two decades ago when he walked down the stairs of that subterranean hamburger oasis known as the Billy Goat and said, “There is no other food that says ‘America’ like the burger.”

And so has he recently put his money where his mouth has long been, opening in New York City a restaurant called “Hamburger America” that has people lined up down the block and me remembering that day decades ago and Motz standing in the Billy Goat saying, “All roads lead here. I had never heard of the place, but most people in the burger world kept saying, ‘The Goat has got to be in there.’ [People I knew] vouched for the place. I had a hard time even finding it. I was lost for a while, just wandering the bowels of Chicago. But that first cheeseburger …”

That was in 2003 and Motz was 35 years old, one of six children, a native of Long Island and a successful commercial cameraman easing into the making of documentaries. He had fallen in love with and married a lovely Chicago girl named Casey and one night in their Manhattan apartment they were, he remembers, “watching TV and saw a show about hot dogs, and I thought, ‘Gee, I’ve never seen a really good documentary about hamburgers.’”

He decided to make one, and came up with the criteria that each place featured would have to meet: The meat had to be fresh, nothing frozen; the place had to be family-owned and be more than 40 years old; it had to have had the same burger on the menu for all those years; the burgers had to be distinctive; and the places had to have a good story to tell.

He crisscrossed the country, spending almost three years eating burgers and filming/interviewing the people who made them. That was what he was doing when I met him, as he bit into his first Billy Goat burger and said, “It’s incredible. It was everything I had heard it was. The taste was distinctive, just a great burger.”

And so did the Billy Goat become the last of the eight burger joint stars of Motz’s 2004 documentary, “Hamburger America,” which had its premiere here at the Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a Billy Goat party.

“What I discovered was that hamburgers would be a perfect way to get people talking about the real America, about real family values,” Motz told me. “These places are bastions of an America that most people don’t see, that many have forgotten even exists.”

That film would give birth to his 2018 book, “Hamburger America: A State-by-State Guide to 200 Great Burger Joints,” featuring the Goat, of course, but also the estimable Top Notch Beefburgers, at 2116 W. 95th St. in the Beverly neighborhood.

Motz was drawn deeper into the food and burger world. He created and produced the Food Film Festival (an annual event for many years here for a while and still in New York). He hosted the Travel Channel’s 2011 series “Made in America,” focusing on factories that make such iconic American products as Jack Daniels whiskey and Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

He went on to teach a course about hamburgers at New York University. He and Casey, now divorced, have two children, son Mac now in high school and daughter Ruby in college. He wrote another book, 2016’s “Great American Burger Book: How to Make Authentic Regional Hamburgers at Home.”

He also did a lot of traveling. “I was in many countries —Japan, France, Sweden, Argentina — talking and giving burger-making instruction,” he says. “I know that some of the people from those classes have been inspired to open their own restaurants, spreading the word, so to speak.”

During the pandemic, he created Burgerslide, “a socially distant burger delivery system,” (and Instagram account) that he ran out of his Brooklyn apartment and at various pop-up locations.

He had, understandably, been approached over the decades to open a restaurant but that did not happen until he paired with old friends and successful restaurant owners Jonathan and Andrew Schnipper and opened the new place. It is on the ground floor of a red brick building at the corner of MacDougal and Houston Streets.

On opening day, former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped in. Chris Rock stopped by. And critics were full of praise.

New York magazine’s Underground Gourmet columnist, Tammie Teclemariam, wrote that “Aside from Danny Meyer and Ronald McDonald, George Motz is the biggest name in burgers’” and called his restaurant “a big-city ode to the small-town roadside griddles that Motz has evangelized throughout his career.”

The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner called the classic smash burger “fantastic, strong and correct. You don’t need to know the history of burgers to be taken with its honest flavors, its modest size, its firm handshake of pickle and onion and good ol’ American ground beef.”

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They and many other writers talked of the place resembling “an old-fashioned luncheonette,” with a dozen or so stools along a Formica counter surrounding a flat top grill, a few booths and walls filled with old menus, newspaper ads and some of Motz’s photographs.

Mentioned too are more of its retro design touches and other menu items. In addition to the two burger choices, smash burger and an onion smash burger, one can order egg and tuna salad, peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese and warm ham sandwiches; fries and pies; coffee, lemonade and some milk drinks. One beer is available, Miller High Life.

The place is open seven days a week and Motz can often be found there making burgers and talking with customers. He is a naturally gregarious and charming guy, ever eager to share his stories, opinions and dreams.

“It was really a fluke that we were able to find and get this place. We never thought we could afford to open in Manhattan,” he says. “But here we are.”

He plans to invite guest hamburger makers from around the country to work the grill.

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