Stars

Stars opened so the fans of Claud and Penny, two known hard Resys, could walk in and have some wine. There is a 60-page list with 88 bottles under $88 and a 1988 Jacques Selosse at $4,200 by the end. "A spot to pop in," as Chase Sinzer, one of the owners, put it.

The design world knows it as the only bar (and its smallest project at 410 sq ft) designed by Studio Valle de Valle, the AD100 firm whose Rizzoli book is out this month. There are two Frank Stellas: the 1998 enamel No Smoking sign in the bathroom and the 1977 Noguchi's Okinawa Woodpecker print at the bar, both on loan from his son. Stella, whose last name is Italian for star and who spent his last decade making them, kept his studio around the corner at 128 East 13th for thirty years and ate at Claud before he died.

Everyone else knows it for the wait, which on a busy night can get so long that the staff has had to turn people away. This summer they started opening on weekend mornings to serve beignets and Maru, an LA coffee shop that is also a PR client of Sinzer's wife.