6.3.09
Drink:
Palace Gate
455 Madison Ave, between 50th and 51st; 212.891.8100
An umbrella-tabled respite opening in the Palace Hotel's gated, stone-tiled courtyard (not in service since Le Cirque bailed four years ago), PG's serving up the bar menu from double Michelin-starred Gilt (suckling pig tacos, thin crusted pizza, oysters, yuzu koshu chicken wings) plus all new bevs like the daily-rotating, sangria-like "Palace Punch", the single-batch blue agave Sombra Mezcal "Mariposa", and the Brazil-tuckian "Pineapple Mint Julep", made with Woodford Reserve -- evoking the pageantry of small men riding thoroughbreds, and the pageantry of thongs riding up small men.
