Having been away from Michael’s since late last year, I was looking forward to going back to 55th and Fifth this week to catch up with the usual suspects who continue to…
It was the usual bustling Wednesday scene at Michael’s this week with a room full of suits and social types ratcheting up the decibel level in the dining room, so I was…
While every neighborhood in the city seems to have been overtaken by empty storefronts and with iconic spots shuttering at an alarming rate, one Manhattan landmark has survived, thrived and thumbed its…
This is a test: focus on the photograph of the stately manor house at the top of this story. If you hear familiar orchestral tones of the piano when you look at…
Not being an avid viewer of Fox News, I didn’t know much about Gretchen Carlson before her landmark lawsuit filed in July 2016 against her former boss Fox News chairman Roger Ailes…
Summer seemed all but a distant memory as the faithful (myself included) flocked to Michael’s today for another season of power lunches (yes, they are still a thing) where business actually gets…
I have been looking forward to this week’s lunch ever since Jeffrey Banks invited me some weeks ago. I’ve chatted with him a few times when I’d seen him lunching at Michael’s…
Despite the dreary weather (Will spring ever stick around?), I made my way to Michael’s yesterday to check in with the power lunch crowd. Now that I’m doing the column twice a…
I couldn’t wait to meet Abby Ellin for lunch at Michael’s Today. Earlier this week, I devoured her new book, Duped — Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost…
They were ‘Lunching’ like it was 1999 today at Michael’s. The place was packed with wall-to-wall bold faced names, familiar faces and, of course, the usual suspects, all dining and dishing at…
I’ve always believed real life is much stranger than fiction and this week’s lunch date at Michael’s, documentary filmmaker Sandra Luckow, has made a career about proving just how true that old…
I’m back! Oh, how I have missed the gang at Michael’s and my weekly lunches with the fashionable, fascinating and fabulous crowd. Walking through the door at 55th and Fifth today felt…