Childhood besties Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens share their experiences and insights on NYC's hyped restaurants and life in New York at a moody Lower East Side haunt.
Welcome to OFF MENU, a new column where we plan to gossip and gorge with our favorite NYC tastemakers. To kick it off, we invited childhood besties Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens to the moody Lower East Side haunt, whose aggressively-voiced-over reviews of the city’s most hyped restaurants have people sliding into their DMs threatening their lives with a rusty knife from Carbone. Whether the meals are comp’d or not, they’re committed to keeping it real. “,” Jongens adds.
And though marching into Polo Bar with a ring light doesn’t land for everyone, it pays to be hated. Over martinis and linguine, they told us about disastrous dates, making it in New York, and what’s really going on at The Box.MEG RADICE: Okay, I got everything from ByRotation, and I have my Alexander Wang bag. AUDREY JONGENS: This dress is also from ByRotation, these are Stuart Weitzman, my jacket is Alice + Olivia, my bag is from Chanel.RAJAGOPAL: And I’ll do a teeny, dirty one.RADICE: It’s definitely giving intimate. It’s a cute little New York cafe moment, which I’m here fo
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