Rare Weekend 1.18.07

All signs point to food and football.


EAT
Saffron Sake Poached Pear Tartlets. Tahitian Vanilla infused Sticky Rice Pudding. Kyotofu may be the city’s best dessert bar. Indulge in their new Dessert & Sake pairings menu.

Kyotofu, 705 Ninth Avenue (between 48th & 49th Streets), (212) 974-6012, kyotofu-nyc.com.

Chanterelle’s first Sunday Salon, taught by the restaurant’s sous chef Scott Levine and fromager Adrian Levine, introduces beer as an alternative (and perhaps preferable) accompaniment to cheese. Sample a variety of tantalizing pairings that will have you thinking twice about pouring Pouilly-Fuissé the next time you break out the chèvre. Sunday (1/21), $55 per person, contact Amy Ehrenreich, (212) 966-6960.

Chanterelle, 2 Harrison Street (at Hudson Street), (212) 966-6960, chanterellenyc.com.

KFC used to cut it at your annual Super Bowl party. Now, it’s all about the food: prep for the big game by taking Institute of Culinary Education’s Super Bowl Party cooking class. Master dishes like Chimay and Gruyere fondue, and shredded chicken quesadillas. Saturday (1/20), 6 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., and Saturday (1/28), 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., $100.

Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), (212) 847-0700, iceculinary.com.

DO
Having trouble getting your workout regime on in the New Year? Pilates guru Brooke Siler, New York Times best selling author of three books on Pilates and instructor to Madonna and Kirsten Dunst, offers private 40 minute training classes in her re:AB Studio for all levels. $30, Saturday (1/20).

re:AB Pilates West, 54 West 21st (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), (212) 620-3800, www.reabnyc.com.

SEE
The Museum of Modern Art turns into a contemporary drive-in movie theater (minus the cars) as six walls screen Doug Aitken’s new video art project, Sleepwalkers. Tilda Swinton and Donald Sutherland star in five interconnected films curtailing one night in the lives of five New Yorkers that will play continuously. Shown nightly, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m., until February 12th.

MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), (212) 708-9400, moma.org.

SHOP
Seize sur Vingt’s clean, finely cut shirts and suits are on sale for as little as $60 and $200, respectively.

Seize sur Vingt, 243 Elizabeth Street (between Houston and Prince Streets), (212) 343-0476, 16sur20.com.