Need: Color & Co English Blinds
What I really need is the Mets to make the playoffs today, but I don’t like our odds. So I’ll settle for blinds from England that I’m struggling to get over the pond.
I can’t take full credit for this find — Amanda Cutter Brooks, the former fashion director of Barneys turned lifestyle curator, posted about her New York Pied-À-Terre tier. Naturally, I did a little digging and now I need them for my own New York pied-à-terre (we must hold ourselves to the standard of millionaire fashion executives, folks).
The company is Color & Co. In 2014, two sisters from Denmark set out to recreate the cozy, natural, plant-based shades they remembered from childhood. In lieu of cumbersome mechanisms, they opted for a simple roller system. The result is an incredible blind that produces a warm glow in the apartment and lends itself to simplicity when pulling them open and closed.
The good news: they do ship to the U.S., despite not advertising it much. The bad news: with tariffs and logistics costs rising, it might actually be cheaper to fly to London and pick them up myself — something I’m genuinely considering.
Wrote: Life is Hard Have a Drink
Wednesday morning I woke up at 7 a.m. and felt inclined to write - actually write. Not a “Need / Wrote / Ate” or a “Where to get the Best Martinis” piece that I’m sure people enjoy (and maybe even find useful), but something that, to me, evokes a different kind of joy in producing.
Quick disclaimer: as Hemingway said, “Write drunk, edit sober.” (A friend recently told me this isn’t supposed to be taken literally, despite the fishermen and writer being a pretty big drinker.)
All this is to say: I know alcohol is a hot-button topic for many these days. It’s something I’ve tried to navigate better myself. The route of “life is hard, have a drink” is something that works for me right now and even still, not all the time. Explore your own path. But for those who like a cold one or two, I hope this resonates.
Ate: The “Hottest” Restaurant in New York
This week was particularly adventurous — between meetings, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and dates — and I found myself at a handful of incredible places, as noted in the Outpost chat (jump in).
But I’m here to talk about one in particular: Bar Oliver.
Now, when I say “hottest restaurant in New York,” most people will assume I mean buzzy, hard to get a table, popular, etc. And while yes, that’s true, it’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Bar Oliver has the hottest people per seat of any restaurant in New York.
Girls, guys, hosts, servers, single folks, older folks, people on dates, the group of six NYU girls seated outside — the place is oozing with attractive people.
This small corner location in the heart of Chinatown is one of the coolest, most eclectic scenes I’ve ever been part of. The food is incredible, the Ribeye worth the trip alone but the atmosphere is really what makes it special — it’s exactly what one envisions when you think of a hip downtown restaurant.
If you’re single, go to Bar Oliver. If you’re married, bring your spouse and go to Bar Oliver. If you’re old, go to Bar Oliver. If you’re young, then you’ve probably already been.
Have a great week, folks.