Welcome back to Fridays at Caper, with me, Annie Armstrong. I am looking forward to stretching out at Fort Greene Park with an icy cup of the newly unveiled seasonal gazoz from my neighborhood bakery Thea. This year, the soda du saison is effervescently sweet pea and lemon-flavored, and it tastes exactly how I imagine Eric Ripert feels shooting his annual “flower bathing” selfies. (We live in uncertain times, but this series remains one comforting constant in my life.) Before I indulge, though, I’d like to fill you in on the scene at the opening night of Marcel, the new restaurant attached to Sotheby’s headquarters in the iconic Brutalist Breuer building, named for its architect, Marcel Breuer.
In today’s letter: What billionaire ten-percenter rented out Noma Los Angeles for his birthday? Which artist’s inventory did critic Ruth Reichl save from getting burnt to a crisp? How much did a sheikh in Abu Dhabi buy 16 locations of The Ivy for from a British restaurant mogul?
Cate Blanchett is booked to play Martha Stewart in her biopic Good Thing. The film, about the stand-and-stir media mogul, will be directed by indie darling Janicza Bravo. If you ask me, this casting is perfect, and I hope to see some Lydia Tár leap out in Blanchett’s performance.
Starting this weekend, Smithereens is opening for Sunday lunch service. It’ll be $52 per person, served family style, with favorite dishes such as its lobster roll and buckwheat pancake with smoked bluefish available as à la carte add-ons.
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