All hail the “candy store of cosmetics” carrying “your favorite brands” and hot “newcomers” in makeup, skin treatments, haircare, fragrance and beauty tools for every age and ethnicity; reviewers adore the “well-trained” staff, “deluxe” free samples (the “perfect fix for a crisis”), loyalty card “perks” and return policy, not to mention the on-site paint artists; just “be careful, it’s a...
Michael Bao Huynh, he of both Vietnamese decendence and culinary persuasion, just opened what more or less amounts to the bigger, badder, tricked-out sequel to his Avenue C haunt Bao 111, and the results are nothing short of spectacular. Some of his "old" dishes take precedence, but don't call it The Same, or a Comeback—the UWS could use some (figurative) spicing up of its dining scene, and...