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3 weeks ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti |Willa Moore |Garrett Snyder |Nicolai McCrary
In NYC, novelty and exclusivity constitute cool. And one of the city’s current hottest bars is a tiny, quasi-secret spot that’s only going to stick around through the end of summer. To get inside Los Salvajes, you have to be a “friend” of the bar, but in our experience, the term is used loosely.
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4 weeks ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti
It’s the 1990s and your friend pages you to meet at the coffee shop. You don't have to ask for the name. It’s just “the coffee shop.” The place down the block from your apartment with the comfy couches, free refills, and maybe even a barista who knows your name. These days you’d be lucky to find even a wooden stool at most Starbucks, and many neighborhood restaurants have essentially become warehouses for brown paper bags come dinner time.
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1 month ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Willa Moore |Will Hartman |Allie Conti |Molly Fitzpatrick
Situated on top of a jazz club, this sushi speakeasy in the East Village is like a house party, in a house that also happens to have a standout $80 omakase. In one corner of the room, chefs at the four-seat counter serve buttery yuzu scallops and shiso sea bream with obvious swagger. Other guests eat sushi a la carte, sitting at high tops or on couches. But the most fun touch? A DJ that helps transition the evening from eating fancy fish to drinking many, many after-dinner cocktails.
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1 month ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti
Think of Roman’s as a slightly aloof, punk-adjacent older cousin you grew up worshipping. He has a super normie job now, but deep down you know he still has good taste. This Fort Greene spot, which opened in 2009 as a minimalist-chic destination for Italian small plates, has mellowed out to become the platonic ideal of a neighborhood restaurant.
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1 month ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti
Finding a dive bar this close to Fort Greene park is like spotting a first-edition copy of Please Kill Me at a Goodwill in Scottsdale. Don’t dwell on how Alibi exists, just beeline it for the ATM inside. Buy a stiff drink and if weather permits, head to the backyard, where the benches are set up so that everyone faces each other in a sort of alcohol panopticon. Maybe you’ll play some pool. Maybe you’ll get another drink. Just don’t order anything that’s on tap.
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1 month ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti
When you book a reservation at Icca in Tribeca, you’re presented with an unexpected choice. The regular omakase costs $495, but for roughly half that, you can, once a month, sign up for an “unforgettable” dining experience involving virtual reality. Here’s what happens if you show up for the latter. photo credit: Angie ChavezAfter some Champagne at the counter, a man in YSL sneakers who used to work for the Russian equivalent of MTV fits you with an Oculus headset.
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2 months ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Allie Conti
Allie is from the part of Florida that could be described as Disney runoff, but her spiritual home is closer to Miami, where she got her start in newspapers and drank her first cortadito. Since then, she’s worked as a writer and editor at VICE, gotten licensed as a private investigator, created a hit true-crime podcast, and written cover stories for publications like the New York Times and New York Magazine.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thrillist.com | Allie Conti
One of the best things about living in or visiting the Bay Area is that you can easily achieve a change of scenery. And unlike, say, New York, which can mostly be divided into "upstate" and "the city," getting out of town from San Francisco means choosing between redwood forests, beaches, and hiking trails—or cobbling together an itinerary that includes some combination of the three.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Allie Conti |Richard Mann |Phil Bourjaily |Craig Caudill
_We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more ›_If you’ve ever spent hours in a late-season deer stand or mid-winter ice shanty—or any place outside in bitter weather for an extended period—there’s a decent chance you’ve dug out a package of hand warmers, activated their contents, and then sat back enjoying their magical effect while wondering, Hmm, how do hand warmers work?
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Allie Conti
New York: James Kane was bleary-eyed as he climbed onto the upper deck of a Megabus, wearing a cowboy hat with stickers and carrying a backpack that contained a small fortune. He'd only gotten three hours of sleep the night before, as the previous day had been a blur of interviews with news wires, TV stations and radio programs. He was headed to Washington, more specifically to an obscure branch of the Treasury Department that dealt with mutilated currency.
