Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and a friend grabbed a booth by the bar at Paros, a Greek restaurant in Tribeca by Top Chef’s George Pagonis. The bright and airy space takes its blue-and-white interior cues from the Cycladic style of the Grecian isle. The menu is centered around fresh seafood: think swordfish kebabs, seafood orzotto, hamachi crudo, and lobster pasta.
Banzarbar
For her 34th birthday, Taylor Swift chose to celebrate at Banzarbar—the critically acclaimed cocktail bar above Freeman’s. Her star-studded guest list included Blake Lively, Zoë Kravitz, Gigi Hadid, Sabrina Carpenter, and more. “Can’t believe this year… actually… happened? Thank you for all your beautiful birthday wishes yesterday,” she wrote on Instagram.
Banzarbar is known for its modern-creative takes on traditional 19th-century cocktails. (One, Shackleton’s Urn, is so boozy that the menu limits it to two per person.) The midnight revolver, meanwhile, is the perfect way to warm up during a bone-chilling winter’s night with its bourbon, allspice, and cinnamon bark smoke.
That’s not to say Banzarbar is old-fashioned: they also dedicate a section of their menu to what they describe as “meta-modern” drinks. Think a martini with a Tom Kha Gai soup flavor, or an “umami-charged” gin drink with ginger lemon and shiso leaf.
