Best Weekend Ever 5.24.07

Do a little dance. Make a little love. It’s Best Weekend Ever (Memorial Day Edition)!



SHIPS AHOY
The nautical-themed East Village Yacht Club opens this weekend just in time for fleet week, white-wearing season, and the beginning of boating weather.

Swing by for a wide selection of appetizers and raw bar selections (yes, we have the menu), plus a special late-night menu while sitting, not quite on a yacht or boat slip, but in a venue decked in navy and white, mermaids and schooners. Oysters, lobsters, club sandwiches - ahoy!

42 East 1st Street (First & Second Avenues), (212) 777-5617, evyachtclub.com

CLANDESTINE COCKTAILS
The eatery that brings you bacon-wrapped fried hot dogs (Crif Dogs) has a sister bar and the drinks are really good. PDT, short for Please Don’t Tell, sports a cocktail list by mixologist Jim Meehan (Gramercy Tavern, Pegu Club) and serious taxidermy interiors. Oh, and you’ll have to enter thru a telephone booth to get inside. Opens today.

PDT, 113 St. Marks Place (First Avenue & Avenue A), (212) 614-0386, pdtnyc.com

HAUTE CHOCOLATE
Downtown soul meets uptown sophistication with the brand new Chocolate Bar café in Henri Bendel. Indulge in truffles, light food, and of course, chocolate bars.

Chocolate Bar at Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Avenue (55th & 56th Streets), Third Floor Atrium, (212) 582-8283, chocolatebarnyc.com

PREP YOURSELF
Hickey Freeman’s pink polos and preppy wear are on sale at their summer kick-off sample sale. Thursday, that’s today (5/24), 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Hickey Freeman, 745 Fifth Avenue (57th & 58th Streets), Suite 500



Editor’s Note: RareDaily resumes next week with a Monday thru Thursday schedule.