Dean & DeLuca

“Not exactly a restaurant and not exactly a grocery store, Dean & DeLuca was the downtown proto-modern Erewhon of our dreams. Simply walking inside from insanity of Broadway felt walking out of a full day at Aire. Their salad bar was unbelievably high end and even more unbelievably affordable. Nothing is quite the same as this place was — the aforementioned Erewhon a little to 'health' & 'lifestyle' forward, Meadow Lane a little too up its own ass. Oh well. I'll never forgive PE for buying them out before running them into the ground and I'll never forget their chocolate chip cookie.”

“Walking in with my mom to get tuna salad, bags from sample sales in hand. Core memory.”