The Place
Sandy Eastwoods is a neighborhood restaurant. Not the kind that holds you at arm's length — the kind that pulls up a chair. You can come in a jacket for a birthday or in a t-shirt for a burger at the bar. Both get the same welcome, the same drink, the same room that hums with the particular electricity of a New York night done right.
The food is the food this city deserves: classically minded, seasonally driven, never fussy. The bar is serious about its martinis and loose about everything else. And the room — dark wood, warm light, the sound of conversation layered just loud enough — is the room we all move to New York hoping to find.
"Your neighborhood bistro if it were run by a former Studio 54 regular who used to be a porno star and was runner up to be the next James Bond."