Thrillist New York
Emailed in a LIST on: Wednesday May 16, 2007The List
No Food: Corio's Liquid Brunch
Café/burlesque hall Corio's taken boozy brunching one step beyond: they've dropped all food from their Sunday menu in favor of 5-6-glass pitchers of pomegranate margaritas, peach mojitos, and bloody marys. The binge is paced by a house music DJ, with patrons spilling onto the sidewalk, then sluicing over the curb and washing into the Hudson River.
Gadgets: Matter Moves to Manhattan
Brooklyn-born Matter's home furnishings are MOMA-worthy pieces of art, some affordable (e.g., a grenade-shaped oil lamp for $65), some not so much (the "Chest of Drawers", which at $28,000 will pierce your buttocks with the shrapnel of poverty).
See cool stuff at MatterMatters.com
Drinks: The Gibson Room at Patroon
After opening their rooftop bar for the season, Patroon converted a former banquet hall into this cocktail lounge, meant to provide an after-work alternative to the classy-but-overpacked Campbell Apartment. Sadly, it's no substitute for the classy-but-gore-splattered Bruce Campbell Apartment.
Culture: VBS' Practice Space
Practice Space takes you inside the...practice space for music/interviews with up-and-coming bands, many of them NYC-based -- allowing you to find out who you'd pay dearly to see live, and who you'd pay to see attacked by a rabid deer.
Drinks: 2-for-1 Happy Hour at the Max Brenner East Village
The bald chocolate guy's deal's good for everything alcoholic in the house, includes chocolate cocktails (e.g., "The Chocolate Martini"), not-chocolate cocktails (e.g., "The Martini"), chocolate beer ("The Double Chocolate Stout"), and not-chocolate beer ("The Heineken").
Gear: CEGO Sale
The custom clothier's unloading dress shirts for $10-$75, lounge pants for $25, and, for $100, five pairs of two-ply Italian cotton boxers so comfortable you'll quit wearing shirts and pants.
