Forget Chez Fifi — this is the must-try new Upper East Side restaurant

Forget Chez Fifi — this is the must-try new Upper East Side restaurant

Marlow East has been the late-summer sensation of the uptown dining scene. Happy food-lovers pack the place nightly for chef Braxton Decker’s delicious, Southern-tinted American dishes in a pretty two-level setting and on a civilized row of sidewalk tables. Marlow East at Lexington Avenue and East 73rd Street, open since late May, is almost as hard to book as … Read more

Chez Fifi’s is one of NYC’s most impossible reservations — and it’s actually worth the hassle

Chez Fifi’s is one of NYC’s most impossible reservations — and it’s actually worth the hassle

Forget SoHo’s always booked-up Corner Store. The city’s hottest restaurant — and the hardest to get into — is miles uptown on staid East 74th Street. Chez Fifi has been the toughest ticket since it opened on the Upper East Side on Dec. 10 — and with good reason. It’s the coziest place north of Bloomingdale’s since … Read more