It has also become a more exciting place to eat, with two of its most acclaimed chefs opening intensely pleasurable restaurants.
Mr. Liebrandt, hulking yet baby-faced, is the chef at Corton in TriBeCa, one of the most gastronomically ambitious and pleasurable new restaurants to open in the city in years.
It wasn't worth mentioning in the limited space of a formal review, and it isn't something that detracts from the pleasurable experience of the restaurant.
Gina O'Keefe, a broker with Brown Harris Stevens, was drawn to the world of restaurants partly because that world had such pleasurable associations.
APERITIFS and amuse-bouches, pleasurable rituals though they may be, are also handy barometers of a restaurant's quality.
That experience, effortless and pleasurable in anticipation, is usually expensive — even when it's at a theoretically inexpensive restaurant — and frustrating; more often than not it's unsatisfying.
With such a wide variety of easily accessible food, and with restaurants offering as many courses as you want, SSS makes overeating pleasurable.
As the weather finally catches up with the calendar, it becomes pleasurable again to wander neighborhoods like the historic West Village, filled with charming little restaurants.
Pleasurable physical intimacies followed.
