Nice weather on the weekend in NYC means only one thing to the crew at Harriet Magpie - dining al fresco! And nothing beats having Sunday brunch with friends, while checking out cute guys who look like they’re training for triathalons. Pastis, located at 9 9th Avenue (at Little West 12th Street) is the quintessential outdoor french bistro for doing just that! We had a delish [...]
Today (Friday!), May 28, 2010, is National Hamburger Day! And lucky for us carnivores out there, many great restaurants are offering deals on hamburgers in honor of this special day! Here are some participating restaurants: Our old fave, Rare Bar & Grill, in its new location at the Fashion 26 Hotel (151 W. 26 St.), [...]
Holely moley! Holes are in vogue and the more the better! Now’s your chance to pull out those discarded ripped tee shirts from the bottom of your closets and start taking advantage of the ripped and shredded summer trend! However, if you were like the crew at Harriet Magpie and discarded those torn tees, don’t [...]
Dear Penelope, The staff at Harriet Magpie wants to ask for forgiveness for judging you prematurely and waiting so long to give you another chance. We had visited you for lunch about a year ago and it was not memorable…but we decided to go back after seeing consistently long lines outside your cozy place every [...]
New York City was Carrie-d away last night by Sex and the City 2 fever. Everyone who is anyone turned out for the premiere of the film – but more important than the film itself was seeing the stars of the film, and what they were wearing. Sarah Jessica Parker played it remarkably simple in [...]
We Magpies always love discovering a new hidden gem restaurant in NYC – a restaurant that serves really great food, and always seems to have an open table. And that’s exactly what happened this week when we dined at Via Della Pace in the East Village. The restaurant is tucked away on a quiet part [...]
Like the guys we go out with, there isn’t much we expect from our makeup. We expect to feel and look better with it than without it. We hope that if we take a chance with it, it’s not going to disappear before the night is over. It should show its true colors right from [...]
When the weather is nice, the only thing better than sitting outside and having drinks…is sitting outside and having drinks on a NYC rooftop! We at Harriet Magpie have scoured the city for some of the best new rooftop bars that we can’t wait to check out this summer. Here are some of our newest picks for [...]
If Chanel got it right (and we Magpies think they usually do), the next trend in nail color will be…baby blue! At the recent Chanel Cruise Collection show in St. Tropez, models strutted down the runway with a new powder blue shade on their fingertips. And it was definitely a fashion sensation! We Magpies think [...]
Hundred Acres, a charming restaurant located at 38 MacDougal Street between Prince and West Houston, is owned and operated by the same people responsible for our other fave brunch place, Cookshop. What makes this restaurant so good? Well, for one thing it’s a very open, sunny place to start off a Sunday. For those of [...]
Summer’s almost here and we Magpies are busy downloading a lot of good music for our iPods, as we dream about lying on the beach. We’re loving the just-released new single “Airplanes (Part II),” off of B.o.B’s new album The Adventures of Bobby Ray, featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams of Paramore. Play it as much [...]
Henri Bendel is one of the greatest places in New York City to meet some of the newest young jewelry designers and find some unique accessories that you can’t get anywhere else. You can easily get a feel for the direction of jewelry trends before the magazines tell us where they’re going! Also, it’s a [...]
Vintage and retro-inspired fashion have definitely influenced the sunglass trends of the summer. From designer shades to inexpensive brands, the summer sunglass forecast for 2010 comes in all shapes and sizes, many featuring ultra dark tints and chunky plastic rims. Black frames are still the staple, but there’s a definite increase in colored and printed frames! Aviators (both metal and plastic) are still very popular, but [...]
This week marked the grand opening of the Limelight Marketplace. The former Episcopal church on 20th Street and 6th Avenue which once housed the notorious nightclub Limelight is now a mini-mall! The transformation from “designer drugs to designer grubs” is complete and we Magpies are totally excited about it! According to Time Out New York, marketplace president Jack [...]
We Magpies really love vintage clothing and jewelry. So we had a lot of fun when we went to the Metropolitan Pavilion last weekend to check out the different exhibitors participating in the Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show. We were most impressed with the clothing (a lot from the 50′s in really good condition) and the vintage pocketbooks. There was one very [...]
We Magpies are big fans of Accademia di Vino, a trendy, upscale Italian restaurant and wine bar located on 64th Street and 3rd Avenue on the Upper East Side. It has a contemporary decor with the tables spaciously arranged, so it’s a great place to meet for dinner and catch up with friends. It’s one of those restaurants that’s consistently [...]
For those of you who love Rare and its rooftop bar Rare View on 37th Street near Lexington Avenues as much as we do – there’s good news. On April 13th, the new Rare and Rare View opened on 26th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Chelsea – as part of the new Fashion 26 hotel. [...]
While in Paris, we Magpies enjoy sampling all the food musts: ham and cheese baguettes, fresh croissants and jam, nutella crepes, and lots of red wine. But clearly one of the standout meals on our trip was the steak frites at La Fontaine de Mars, a quaint little bistro tucked away on a quiet street [...]
How ironic that we Magpies just returned from London (after reporting on Topshop’s new personal shopping service) and today New York’s Topshop just launched their much anticipated (well, much anticipated if you’re British) cosmetics line! Why all the excitement? Well, its Core Line of Essentials (that’s British for make-up line) features 97 products and its [...]
There are few shops in the world that top the Topshop on Oxford Street in London. We can literally spend hours there, trying on every top and dress and blazer…before moving on to the shoes and accessories. We know, you might be wondering why we’d shop at the Topshop in London when there’s one right on [...]
