The fine art of entertaining: mix business with pleasure by sampling a few gems in New York's culinary cornucopia

Art Business News, Jan, 2003 by Nancy Davidson

W Hotel Lounges

Fashionable, velvety couches, coffee tables, cozy alcoves and shelves filled with books will make you feel like you are in the living room of your dreams. Each hotel has a slightly different vibe, depending on the neighborhood, but each one attracts a stylish and trendy crowd.

Union Square
201 Park Avenue South
(212) 353-8345
Enjoy cocktails from the bar of the excellent
Olives Restaurant.

The Court and The Tuscany
130 E. 39th Street
between Park and Lexington Avenues
(212) 685-1100

With two hotel properties on the same quiet block, these two sumptuous hotel lounges are a low-key alternative. Or slip into W's adjacent bars, Cherry and Wetbar.

The Living Room

1567 Broadway at 47th Street; Seventh Floor Stupendous views distinguish this lounge, which is upstairs from the Blue Fin restaurant.

Nancy Davidson lives in New York and writes about food for the New York Post.