Eating in bed is nothing new. Celebutantes have been jumping on that bandwagon ever since Bed Miami opened a few years ago. Perhaps being in an environment that encourages clumsiness helps disguise the fact that you’re too blotto to stand up. Of course there’s a New York version and San Francisco’s Supperclub is part of […]

Despite its celebrated sister city, Prague, grabbing all the headlines, Bratislava is actually the most youthful capital in Europe, and has been lately breeding trendy nightspots like bunny rabbits. The new Hotel Arcadia, opening this fall, is a bold statement in rakish elegance, an ironic contrast to its name (which generally refers to pastoral simplicity). […]

Bicycle culture has always had a stronger foothold in Europe than in the US. Pedaling along the Seine just seems so much more doable, and romantic, than getting across Dallas on two wheels. Sure New Yorkers are pretty adept at not being run over by taxis while biking, and San Franciscans have made it a […]

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HOTEL LE REGINA
Warsaw’s most chic, in a restored, arcaded palace. Monastic, contemporary sophistication, with lots of oak and marble, and designer clientele.
KURT SCHELLER AT HOTEL RIALTO
Illustrious Swiss chef gives lumbering Polish cuisine a fabulous new-world Euro makeover, within hip boutique hotel’s impossibly glamorous, retro-mod deco interior.

LE MADAME
A battery of freako installations […]

It would be a truly bloody shame if, after fighting like hyaenas during the 20th Century, staving off the total sublimation of their cultural identity by some rather formidable foes, the Hungarians just laid down and allowed their capital to be overrun by the insatiable beast of contemporary globalism. And while specks of shiny modernism […]