Bowie mania, London Hermès to a tea, Paris Unbeatable omelet, Århus Via Roma, Rome Pizza hut, hut, hut, Chicago Oh so Praktikal, Barcelona Velvet revolution, Nice Nobel dinners, Stockholm Party temple, Athens The Hit List Editor RIKARD LIND Waterfront development ( from top): The terrace bar is housed in a glass box on the roof of the old cooperage; the farm-to-table restaurant Reynards; window walls and poured concrete floors give the rooms a factory look Wythe Hotel 80 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Tel: +1 718 460 8000. www.wythehotel.com 1HOTELS Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s answer to the East Village, has finally got the kind of boutique hotel it deserves: a cathedral of hipsterdom repurposed from an old waterfront caskmaking factory. The de rigueur terrace bar is housed in a glass box roof extension with killer views of Midtown. Set among graffitied walls and old warehouses on the corner of Wythe Avenue and North 11th Street, just doors from vintage El Dorado Beacon’s Closet, the Brooklyn Brewery and Brooklyn Bowl, the Wythe Hotel is the brainchild of property developer Jed Walentas, Australian hotelier Peter Lawrence, and Brooklyn restaurateur Andrew Tarlow (Diner and Inndustrial chic Marlow & Sons) whose tried-and-tested farm-to-table concept stokes the woodfired Reynards downstairs. The hotel has already been dubbed “the nicest thing ever built in Williamsburg” by The New York Observer. No wonder – the original interior was gutted and its wooden insides used for the beds and ceilings, with exposed brick, concrete floors, and window walls offset by custom wallpaper and art commissioned from Duke Riley, Espo, and Tom Fruin. Rooms from €135. KARIN STRÖM GO TO NEW YORK SAS takes you to New York. Book at www.flysas.com. Round-trips to New York start at 60,000 EuroBonus points from airports in Scandinavia and Finland. Taxes and fees apply, from €63. COURTESY OF THE WYTHE HOTEL 18 FEBRUARY 2013 SCANORAMA
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