The weekend doesn’t really begin until the back nine on Sunday.
There’s chocolate. And then there’s chocolate—made by a guy who’s won seven Blue Ribbons (France’s highest award for professional chocolatiers), which is what we’re getting you. Then we’re hooking you up with eye-catching pop-art prints—including the opportunity to create your own Warhol. Plus: your very own wardrobe butler.
This just in: April is National Grilled Cheese Month (in case you ever doubted the power of the grilled cheese industry). Anyway, Saint-Ex is answering the call with five limited-edition sandwiches, piling on stuff like eggs, apples and breakfast sausage. Actually, better take the rest of the month off.
As much as you may like bikes, you have no desire to wear spandex and climb the Pyrenees. Enter this new H Street shop, which specializes in stylish upright bikes from London perfect for zipping around the city, as well as helmets that look like your favorite fedora. But harder.
You’ll need to fuel up before your date with Jim Nantz and the azaleas in the afternoon. May we suggest Sonoma’s limited-engagement Easter brunch. They’re doing duck hash with duck confit and deep-fried egg, short ribs and eggs, and housemade donuts. Your red polo: optional.
You hold these truths to be self-evident: that you’d like to tuck into seven courses honoring Thomas Jefferson’s 269th birthday and inspired by his travels around Europe. Each course will be paired with a French red, a madeira or another of Tom’s favorite wines. Which Adams would have hated.
You’ll endure a trial or two for a proper reward. Like cargo nets, climbing walls and lots and lots of mud spread out over this Parris Island–style 5K race. At the end: food, music and kegs upon kegs of Flying Dog. Which you could also use to wash off the mud.
