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Finally, Ordering The Humble Pie At NYC's Standard Hotel Grill
As you may have noticed over the last year, we've got a serious thing for the newly-opened Standard Hotel NYC. We've done everything from sleep there to party there, and even walk the High Line below it.
But it was last week that we finally got a taste of the Standard when we had lunch at the Standard Grill, which only began serving meals other than dinner back in late August.
Now that the cold air has settled into New York and kicked out the fair weather friends and put the staff through the paces, we decided it was time to go and see if the grill really lived up to all the hype.
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What's On The Block at the Standard Downtown LA?
We continue our What's On The Block: Los Angeles Edition by heading downtown.
So far this week, we’ve taken you to Santa Monica, the Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills, so we thought we’d end our Los Angeles What’s On The Block series with one of our downtown haunts, The Standard.
Sure, there are newer hotels in the area, but we keep coming back to this Andre Balazs property thanks, in no small part, to its central location in the heart of the downtown. At least, the part of downtown that doesn’t get too scary after dark.
Let’s start right behind the hotel at the LA Public Library and Park. The Central Library, which opened in 1926, is a bona fide Los Angeles landmark. Learn more about the architecture and notable art works of the building on a Docent Tour (our favorites are the scary fairy tale sculptures in the children’s court). Try not to get hit by a skateboarder as you cross the little park for a luxe lunch on the patio at Café Pinot.
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The Standard's Boom Boom Room Will Now Be Called QT (As In The Old Hotel)
The Standard New York's exclusive 18th floor bar hasn't even officially opened and yet it's already changing its name. Apparently, the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco has sent the club a Cease and Desist letter for using its name (Type in Boom Boom Room in Google and this club comes up first.)
While we weren't in love with the name Boom Boom Room (we always started singing the song, "Boom, Boom let's go back to my room so we can do it all night and you can make me feel right" whenever we heard it), we like QT even less. BlackBook has the scoop on what QT stands for (on the Quiet) but to us, QT will always be Andre Balazs' boutique dorm hotel in Times Square that is now known as Roommate Grace.
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Rachel Zoe Switches Her New York Hotel Loyalty
Alright, we'll admit it: we are totally addicted to the Bravo Show The Rachel Zoe Project, which follows top Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe through runway shows in New York, award show fittings in LA, and everywhere in between. In the first season, Rachel famously occupied the penthouse at the 60 Thompson hotel in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.
When the Thompson LES opened, we knew that it was only a matter of time before Rachel Zoe was calling it "bananas" and making it her new headquarters—as she did in the second season during New York Fashion Week. Her husband Rodger her assistants Taylor and Brad all agreed that the view from the LES' penthouse was very impressive, as was the whole space.
So now you can imagine our surprise to discover that Rachel Zoe has decamped to The Standard.
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The Raleigh Hotel Gets Dumped By Andre Balazs
The Raleigh Hotel in South Beach probably won't be getting any more visits from its hunky hotelier, Andre Balazs. The Miami Herald reports that Balazs is close to selling the hotel in favor of doing more Standard-brand positioning. And the sale is nearly done:
The New York hotelier behind The Standard hotel chain said he has a buyer for the 104-room Raleigh and that both sides are all but agreed to a price. He expects the deal to become official within four weeks.
``We've accomplished what we wanted to,'' Balazs said of his seven years with the Raleigh, 1775 Collins Ave., a favorite stop for celebrities and local hipsters.
And while Balazs recently sold off The Standard Miami, his company continues to manage the property--something he is not interested in doing with The Raleigh. But he will take the cash from the sale and start investing it in the Caribbean. So will the Maison Tropicale finally see the light of day? We hope so.
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Scandal! It's Not Just Guests Getting Naked At The Standard
It's hard to believe that it's already been almost nine months since we slept at The Standard NYC, and in that time the hotel has gone from being a respite of fresh design and cool canoodling to a scenester playpen with free peepshows.
Alas, the drama continues over The Standard's very clear wall of windows and the flagrant guest nudity they reveal to the High Line pedestrians below. In fact, the daily x-rated displays are quite the hot topic in town, and leave it to the NY Post to get to the bottom of it.
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Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Inside or Outside the Standard NYC
The view from room 9.24.
The Standard NYC came under fire yesterday for encouraging its guests to put their sexual selves on display while staying at the hotel. But despite the hotel's promise to remind guests about the "transparency of the guest windows" it seems all the publicity about the naked naughtiness has only encouraged more folks to bare it all...and more folks down below to stick around and watch for a while.
How else to explain the two dancing naked girls in one of the guest rooms yesterday or the folks who visit the High Line Park below specifically to engage in some Peeping Tom behavior? One told the NY Post:
"We saw two feet pressed against the glass in an apparent attempt to get better leverage," said sightseer [Aaron] Lipman. "Our curiosity is piqued -- but it hasn't yet been satisfied. We'll come back."
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The Standard New York's Porny Antics Might Soon Be Over
The Standard Hotel in New York hasn't been shy about showing some skin with numerous sightings of naked or nearly naked people spotted inside the guest rooms through the floor to ceiling windows. Even the hotel's mascot and Twitterer Stan D'Arde has encouraged folks to go on with their sexy selves and submit their naughty snapshots to the hotel's Facebook page (they have to be taken at the hotel of course.)
It's all very Truth or Dare, Madonna-style but the Standard might be too sexy, even for New York. The NY Post reports that park-goers at the High Line Park (which runs below the hotel) and business owners are quite upset about the voyeurism that goes on at the hotel.
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A Way to Ensure Your Activities at The Standard Won't Result in a Rash
Let's be up front about this: lots of people have sex at The Standard. Particularly, we know that lots of people have sex in the windows of the Standard New York, in plain view of all the High-Line explorers and skeevy Meatpacking District bartenders. There's a whole lotta humpin' going on in that building — and we're pretty sure similar activities happen all over the LA, Miami and Hollywood properties, too. And, as we all know from health class and, um, college, sometimes those particular activities result in rashes. And you don't want to associate The Standard with nasty rashes, do you?
No, you don't — which is why we'd like to tell you that Quiksilver has partnered with Standard Hotels to release a retro-looking set of swimwear (a limited-edition line that goes on sale today) that not only has special snap detailing, but incorporates Quiksilver's Diamond Dobby anti-rash material. Yay!
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The Standard Grill Now Open For Breakfast, Celeb-Spotting
It's barely been two weeks since hotspot The Standard Grill finally opened to the public for dinner. Or did they? Reading the NY gossip columns along with the Twitter of The Standard's personality, Stan D'Arde, it seems as though only A-listers and the editors who love them have been chowing down under the High Line.
Take, for instance, last night's list of celeb spottings: Beyonce and Jay-Z, Vogue editrix Anna Wintour and daughter Bee Schaffer, Project Runway winner Christian Siriano, and a "major American fashion designer based in Paris," which we're guessing is Rick Owens. The Stan D'Arde twitter is now basically a running list of "blind items," hinting at what famous faces are playing ping-pong outside The Standard Grill every evening. It's like an issue of The Fashion Week Daily up in there!
Although the guests are impressive, New Yorkers luckily understand that everybody has got to eat, and celebs can't sit inside their multi-million dollar condos every evening. Therefore, we have no doubt that The Standard Grill's illustrious guests are flowing well with the regular patrons; if you're looking for a paparazzi scene, you're out of luck.
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Standard Hotels Want A Peek At Your Naughty Photographs
Remember that glorious day when we unearthed pictures of the first nude photo shoot inside of The Standard NYC? Well, it looks like the saucy pics titillated The Standard's elitist twitterer and personality, Stan D'Arde enough to inspire a call for more, more, more!
On the Standard's blog, "Stan" cites the "voyeuristic sex" appeal of the beds atop the Standard Downtown LA and the chicquarium in the lobby of the Standard West Hollywood. The completely clear windows of the Standard New York continue this tradition and frankly, the Standard itself would now like a piece of the action.
So send them your naughty snaps taken in the hotel, by email or Facebook. Heaven knows what he'll do with them, but then heaven really should avert its eyes right about now.
[Photo: Olivier Zahm/ Purple Diary]
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Standard Grill Finally Welcomes The Plebes, But Only For Dinner
After weeks of taunting us with their under-wraps preview dinners for the people on the fashion and social scene, The Standard NYC's Standard Grill restaurant finally opened to the public this last week, and boy it is a drool-inducer.
Our first few cloak-and-daggers glimpses of it—see our spying here and here— revealed luscious dark tones and an artfully-constructed faux-vintage/industrial interior, proper of a restaurant underlying the old High Line railway tracks.
This week however, Gothamist got a proper reveal of the glory that is their bar room and their main room, and we couldn't be more excited about eating eggs benedict in these booths.
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