NYC and the Eventi
November 13, 2016
It’s New York City, where this building is.
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 10, 2016
Sadly our view from 1104 looks like this instead of like that.
Eventi 1104
We’re staying for several days here at the Eventi, and we were really hoping for an even better room (height and view-wise). Sadness.
Dear @Kimpton eventi, thx for letting me get a room early! 1104 is great, 1504/2304 better, 1515 has a better view. https://t.co/wLEadA3ybE
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 10, 2016
1104 is a nice room category at least. We’re happy about that. It is kind of weird that this hotel seems to have no memory of which rooms it assigns. I know many other kimpton properties that do a better job with that (say, hotel marlowe in boston).
Without further ado, 1104.
Eventi 1104
The fruit amenity was actually almost completely consumed! But still water?? Really? Seems to us here at NPS that the “infrastructure staff” is not quite as stellar as the “front desk/downstairs staff” here at the Eventi.
No cheese for you.
The bathroom is super fantastic with a great shower.
Eventi 1104 shower highly recommended
Two meals at the restaurant/bar downstairs were particularly noteworthy. NPS is not a fan of hotel restaurants (even at Kimpton properties), but an exception can be made for the eventi.
Best waffle ever @Kimpton eventi. Truffke bechamel, ham/gruyere cooked inside @thedapperdiner pic.twitter.com/uheRQXkWDP
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 12, 2016
Of note in NY this trip. Dinner at Il Buco (the old one). Dinner at Ramen-Ya. Lunch at Tac-N-Roll. A cocktail at Pegu. Drinks at Lantern’s Keep with Natasha and Natalie. Heisenberg the play.
HIghline tree
The end of the line
Pegu pic.twitter.com/5IiegHZSGy
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 11, 2016
Ramen-ya in NYC west village pic.twitter.com/5AQwk7sR00
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 12, 2016
Delicious @tacnrollnyc pic.twitter.com/kmJgkxhSW0
— Gary McGraw (@cigitalgem) November 12, 2016
Lantern's keep. Much better.@MacCocktail pic.twitter.com/yY79NK34HP
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) November 12, 2016
Lantern’s Keep cocktails
On the stage at Heisenberg
And the Whitney was outstanding as always.
A very high four showerheads and an upgraded database to track rooms with for the Eventi.
Eventi in the City: NY
March 11, 2016
The Eventi has done fantastic things to their lobby: new bar, open design, coffee shop, street level buzz. It is an important upgrade.
Who replaced the lobby??? Eventi @kimoton NYC pic.twitter.com/zJlDN1nHBK
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
Karma-wise, though, NY is much less personal than the Palomar in DC. It’s the people who make all the difference. Everyone was friendly enough, but NY has so much throughput and staff turnover that nobody recognizes anybody. Oh well.
I was in 1515
1515 Eventi mini-suite
The Eventi mini-suite design is compact, and spacious for NY, but pretty small by the rest of the world’s standards.
1515 sitting area
As always, it was nice to have a note and an amenity from Kimpton. Thanks you guys! The olives were particularly good at 1am after a visit to Lantern’s Keep for a 10:30 meeting.
A visit to @Lanternskeep (no more @thisfellow) for some conversation pic.twitter.com/4fdGCHwb3T
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
The Roman Highball
2 oz cynar
.75 ginger syrup
.5 lime
1/2 egg white
shake vigorously. pour in highball and add seltzer
1515 bed pod with view of empire state building
Blue today
The shower design at the Eventi is particularly fantastic.
Awesome glass and marble palace of a shower
With a bench, because you NEED a bench in the shower
One of those never used tubs
Dinner in tribeca at ROC was fantastic as usual and enhanced by the summer-like weather.
NY penn station @krispykreme fake red deliciousness pic.twitter.com/pVKuQRunC2
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
Five showerheads for the Eventi (highly recommended) but more wished for personal touch.
The Muse: New York City
October 6, 2015
The Muse is a new one on NPS. Our jaunts to NY often have us at 70Park or the Eventi. All three hotels are Kimpton properties. The Muse turns out to be very close to the Marriott Marquis where the conference I am keynoting is being held.
So here we are smack dab in the heart of Times Square tourist-land in NY. Hmm.
I arrived at the Muse just in time for the end of wine hour. After the prop-plane flight up on united, a glass of wine was just what the doctor ordered. Prop-plane? In 2015? Really?
The @united equipment. Global reach! pic.twitter.com/PVEZWKfnp6
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) October 5, 2015
The Muse is currently under massive renovation. From what we can tell from our room (915) the result will be fabulous.
Room 915 console
A few minutes after arrival, a nice amenity (cupcakes! and sparkling water) arrived with a note. Thanks to Sean Flanigan who heard tell of our arrival from the Boston spy ring and arranged for a nice welcome.
Kimpton Karma welcome amenity
915 comfortable bed
915
The bathroom is a bit crowded but very nicely appointed. The shower is great.
Not plastic! Two showerheads.
Another classic Kimpton touch worth pointing out. Kimpton knows that we all have devices to charge by the bed. So they make sure power is available. Together with the free wifi, we have all we need to get work done into the wee hours of the morning.
Power by the bed
Just after arrival is was off for a cocktail at Lantern’s Keep. Their mixology remains top notch even though Barman Bob is long gone (John has filled in very well indeed). I had a tweaked Manhattan made with Fernet.
Then we headed down to Bryant Park for dinner at Koi. Koi is very nice and impressed my starving college aged son.
There was a little time for some art at the Whitney museum.
All told, five showerheads for the Muse. It’s only drawback may well be its reason for existing in the first place (proximity to tourist-land).
Eventi in NY Bails me Out (kinda)
April 11, 2014
It was one of those days. Plenty of time to get to the airport, no real rush. But somehow my belt did not get the memo and I arrived in NY beltless—for a big meeting with lots of senior banking execs flown in from all over the world?! Horrors. (They were all wearing French cuffs and pocket squares.)
Kimpton attempted to bail me out when the massive belt oversight emergency was broadcast to the world over the @noplasticshower twitter feed (follow us here). [BTW, it turns out that @kimpton does a better job realtime monitoring twitter than @kimptoninnyc! Hmm. It also turns out that Kimpton emergency coordination better accomplished by central emergency services (in san fran maybe?) than by Kevin the concierge in NY.]
Thing is, there was no time to lose. So we uber’ed to two hotels and a mall on the way to the financial district. JC Penny belt it is!
About 20 minutes before my meeting downtown, a twitter DM arrived from @kimpton emergency services who, of course, had managed to pick me up a belt! It was waiting in my room when I got back after the meeting, dinner, general carousing, and shutting down a bar. Super amazing great, but just a smidge too tardy. Thanks anyway Eventi staff (and double thanks to @kimpton central emergency services)! You guys are the best.
Not only was there a belt, there was also a nice snack and some sparkling water. The water probably saved us from certain death by dehydration. Thanks Rebecca.
Thank you Kimpton for beltifying the emergency! Super kind.
Another great authentic Italian meal at Roc in Tribeca. It seemed like the after dinner grappa (moscato) was a good idea, but it completely dissolved our resolve to make an early night of it right there on the spot. And then the lemoncello.
So instead of heading in to harbor, we simply walked over to weather up for some delicious beverages and a bourbon lesson.
By that time we were on a roll and managed to uber on up Lantern’s Keep where I believe we stayed until they ran out of fernet branca. Oh woe is us. We did determine that barman bob is no longer working at Lantern’s Keep , and I am sure that we met the current barmen, but we pretty much don’t recall.
Thursday morning was blinding and way too early. But rally we did for another busy day at the office.
Bright. Ouch.
BTW, our secret noplasticshowers spy contingency is with us this trip. That may explain why the bathroom is so messy and there is a yoga mat on the floor.
Glass shower in 2104
Two shower heads in the shower. And plenty of water pressure. Ahhh.
Who knew that there were yoga mats?!
We strolled down the high line to NYU from midtown. The high line is beautiful in every season.
Thursday evening was capped with a relaxing visit to the Brandy Library.
Anyway, the eventi is feeling more homey in NY even though there is the apartment, and it is in NY! Must be the Kimpton vibe. Five showerheads and some much needed sleep.
Our Spies Report Back from Eventi in NY, NY
December 12, 2013
By now loyal readers know that noplasticshowers has packed up the tent and is not flying anywhere in December, but the blog can live on through careful spycraft. That is, by sending proxies into the breach! Go proxy go.
Our first attempt at these shenanigans involves NY city and the Eventi hotel.
The Eventi is really close to Penn Station. That’s a major plus when you train into town on the Acela.
The Eventi somehow magically determines who our spy is (through the twitters) and greets her with fruit, cheese, sparkling water (!!) and a note. Plus two. Houston, our spy has been outed!
Uh oh, the spy welcomed by name with sparkling water.
Room 815 is the king suite variety. But it is uncharacteristically messy.
Noplasticshowers does not mess up its table like this usually.
Does the bathroom art appeal to our agent as much as it does to us? Why, yes, it does.
Bathroom art looks mighty familiar.
Unfortunately the spy thing is not working out. Here is a picture of our noplasticshowers secret agent outing herself! Don’t look now, it’s a mirror selfie.
Secret agent overtly covets the marble sinks.
Finally, and most importantly, the shower is certified non-plastic by our agent.
This shower is not plastic—at all.
Five showerheads and a big thank you for not putting our secret agent in the gulag but rather treating her like a member of the Kimpton family. You guys rock.
Fortunately, our agent somehow avoided the wiles of oh so dapper barman bob at Lantern’s Keep this trip out. That was a close one!
Eventi, NY, NY
October 5, 2013
A very quick trip up to NY was once again hijacked by barman bob at Lantern’s Keep. Holy cow, bob is trying to kill me (and all of my friends)!
Because of bob, the amenity left by the crack staff at the Eventi came in particularly handy. Here’s what was left in the morning.
Sparkling water was a necessity.
Some pictures of 1804 are in order.
Sitting area.
Sleeping area.
Showering area
No plastic anywhere, sparking water to drink, some cheese that seems to work just fine at 3am, super great front staff (a huge improvement from the growing pains days way back when), I must be at a Kimpton!
It was a typical starbucks kind of morning, though morning happened at noon.
Customer 42
Eventi NY
Five showerheads for this abbreviated stay at the Eventi. Watch out for bob.
Not So Special in the Big City Huh? 70Park, NY
September 19, 2013
Maybe the awful United express flight up here in a creaky old expressjet CRJ200 was foreshadowing of some sort? In any case, there is nothing quite like New York City to disavow you of your ego! Even the hotels and my own best guys are in on the game.
Just when we thought Kimpton loved us here at noplasticshowers, we were unable to finagle our favorite room for one of my companion’s rare visits to the city. (We admit that we waited way too long to ask nicely, but the powers that be are keeping us way too busy these days!)
And the note, though handwritten by Santo and very much personal, was handed to me with the new loyalty program chit instead of being secreted away in my room? Dang. There’s no way that a $30 minibar credit makes me feel as welcome as cold sparkling water, a bottle of wine, and some cheese. Especially since there is no sparkling water in the minibar. (Minus 10.) Maybe the corporate apartment is better.
Too many people in the Kimpton loyalty program?! The inner circle is way way wide. Horrors. Now we’re all the same?! Noplasticshowers prefers the grade inflation found outside of NY where everyone is above average.
This is not cheese?!
Palomars where are you?? Come rescue me.
OK OK, first world problem. It’s true. And maybe this all has something to do the the scaffolding all over the building and its deleterious impact on room service? Quite possibly there is no cheese (or sparkling water) to be found.
Room 1515 is nicely way up there and has a classic 70park layout. Excellent style with good lines and great use of mirrors. We’ll feature the mirrors in the pictures this time.
Bed in the mirror.
Bed in the other mirror. And an infinite mirror too!
Bathroom mirrors can’t be left out.
But sadly, there is a shower curtain. You know how we feel about those on this blog.
Curtain over a tub. Uh oh.
To add insult to injury, blue smoke is out of Hirsch ’76 (no more left in NY or maybe on planet earth). We are in a three showerheads kind of mood. Meh.
Want sparkling water? Well go get it yourself from Starbucks.
And then things took a serious turn for the much better (not at 70Park but in NYC). Thursday evening included a walk downtown on the high line, a visit to NYU and Washington Square, an outrageously great meal at annisa in the village (really, best restaurant ever in NY which is high praise), and the best time ever for NY mixology at Lantern’s Keep. All in one evening.
We are so glad that Raines Law Room was once again too popular for its own good, because we met barman Bob and his merry band of friends. What’s not to like about outstanding shots of agave tequila and zacapa 23 from paper cups in between delicious beverages? Real daiquiri shooters all around got us started. There was even homemade amer picon (kinda) for a Liberal. Lantern’s Keep is now high on the NY mixology list.
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