30 to Midnight

Peels, East Village

Sunday, 1pm

Peels
325 Bowery (2nd St.), Manhattan

Click on that picture and make it big. Try not to focus on the people before asking yourself: How awesome is this City? It's gorgeous in every way, from every angle. It is such an absolute pleasure to live here, even with tourists and AI's and other dingbats who don't know how to walk.

So what are we talking about when we talk about Freeman's Part II, aka Peels? We're talking about AI's, which is too bad because Build-A-Biscuit is a concept we like.

Harley's Smoke Shack, East Harlem

Next Week

Harley's Smoke Shack
355 East 116th St. (1st Ave.), Manhattan

We don't usually pre-review places but Harley's Smoke Shack has been intriguing us for months and we're told it's finally going to open: next week. Why is this so important that we're compelled to mention it before we've gauged age? Because while many of you may not partake in the many good things East Harlem has to offer, all of you trek there now and again to shop. If not Costco, then Target or Best Buy, etc. Merry Christmas. You now have a non-tac0 116th option. Age TBD.

 

Wolfgang's Steakhouse, Midtown East

Tuesday, 6pm

Wolfgang's
4 Park Ave. (33rd St.), Manhattan

Not including the groups of multiaged boys that sometimes enter Wolfgang's, bartender says it's a mostly AA bar, as evidenced by our recent research. It's gorgeous too. Grand Centralesque Vanderbilty ceilings. Now that's style and design.

Chickalicious, East Village

Sunday, 4:30pm

Chickalicious
203 East 10th St. (2nd Ave.), Manhattan

Three-course dessert meal. Do we need to say anything else? It's not about sweets. It's about lingering over coffee or wine, taking time to enjoy a perfectly-crafted amuse, dessert, petit four, and the person with you, or the person with his maybe-girlfriend who keeps looking at you. Age-Appropriate couples and friends here. Chika tells us it's frequently that way. Come before 6pm to sit immediately and not feel bad for those on line outside. Closes 10:45pm. 

Reader Says: Hill Cafe, Clinton Hill

Thanks to Shpendi in Brooklyn for writing in to tell us that Hill Cafe (17 Putnam Ave., Clinton Hill) is a Cool local spot! Cool = Age Appropriate, obviously.

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Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Holstein's

Saturday, 11pm

Holsteins Shakes and Buns
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

While Age InAppropriates in all forms of dress were being corralled in front of Marquee, we joined other Age Appropriates in balancing alcohol consumption by consuming the world's highest production dairy cow

Kibo, Union Square

Saturday, 6pm

Kibo
111 E 18th St. (Park Ave. South), Manhattan

Kibo is very large, like Nobu 57 dining room large but somehow larger (maybe it was the perspective from the footstools in the lounge area, behind the bar in the photo). Scantily-clad cocktail waitress tells us it's too soon to put a number on average age of customer, but, not to worry, it's been fun. That says Age Appropriate Before Midnight to us, if you like sitting low, or at a large, non NYC-like bar (not our NYC, we should say). Know differently? Do tell.

CARNEVINO, Las Vegas

Saturday, 5:30pm

CARNEVINO
The Palazzo, Las Vegas

So you came all the way from New York just to eat at a Batali restaurant? Well, Yes. Though like Rao's it was inadvertent. It was more like: hey, this is a Batali place with the words MEAT and WINE in the name and it's not that smokey here but we can watch people "playing" slots and everyone inside is Age Appropriate. Ka-ching! (Slot machine winning sound?).

Rao's, Las Vegas

Saturday, 2:30pm

Rao's Las Vegas
Caesar's Palace

We can't imagine how many times the bartenders at Rao's Las Vegas say, jokingly, "So you came all the way from New York just to eat here." But that's their thing. And it's true, except for the implication that it was planned.

Inside Park at St. Bart's, Midtown East

Thursday, 6pm

Inside Park at St. Bart's
325 Park Ave. (50th St.), Manhattan

The Terrace at Inside Park at St. Bart's (The Inside Park Terrace, pictured) is closed until May. Sorry. But the inside part of Inside Park is open. Yea! If you like your Age Appropriates in suits, you will love the crowd here. Not only do they all look good (suits make the man, and woman) but also they all have jobs.
What?! All we're saying is people without jobs are mostly kinda miz. So this is a happy crew; lots of co-workers but an equal amount of co-mingling. Bonus X2: darn good food, and it's so deliciously Manhattan here - pretty Park Avenue Malls (look north) and maybe-prettier urban architecture (look anywhere). If there's a flaw it's the volume of the music. We AA's like our 80's but we also like to hear the person next to us.