The NoMad
1170 Broadway, 347-472-5660, Flatiron District, Manhattan
"NoMad" is an acronym realtors have been touting for a while, meaning North of Madison Square Park. Now that there's a NoMad Hotel and its smashing restaurant, The NoMad, perhaps it will finally enter the vernacular. The team of Daniel Humm and Will Guidara (Eleven Madison Park) certainly helps. Catering to hotel guests, breakfast is served as well as lunch, cocktails, dinner and everything in between. The series of handsomely appointed rooms includes the Library for daytime coffee and pastries and drinks when it becomes acceptable to be seen lifting a glass. The grandly beautiful bar is a haven for intimate assignations. For private dinners, book the nook with the fireplace imported from a French chateau. The Atrium, resembling a European courtyard, is ideal for a lunch of slow-cooked halibut with spring peas or a dinner of suckling pig confit with dried apricots and wild greens.