This week’s issue of New York has a cover feature about the impending recession and how it’ll affect NYC:
See? The Boom Is Bust! Plus: The Upside of the Downside and The Everything Guide to Belt-Tightening.
But as I read the issue (it’s really become a great magazine under Adam Moss), I got the feeling that not everyone’s taking this premise seriously. It’s not that the ads were frighteningly inappropriate (not like a few weeks ago, when the cover feature on finding silence and peace in NYC was filled with ads for gyms that tend to, um, pump the megamix) (oh, and Quebec? Try to find a better tagline than “Providing emotions since 1534,” please); rather, it was a certain passage that betrayed New York’s status as a boomtown. That would be Adam Platt’s review of Dovetail, a new restaurant on the Upper West Side, which includes this gem:
As at other destination joints around town, there is a small private dining room downstairs, and if you have the inclination, you can wash your dinner down with a glass or two of ’98 La Tâche Burgundy ($1,840 per bottle) or, even better, a bottle of legendary ’95 Romanée-Conti ($3,700).
Remember, kiddos: the boom is bust! Better buy that $3,700 bottle of wine while you can still afford it!