Bobbi Brown adores her adopted hometown of Montclair, NJ, so much so that she and her husband, Steven Plofker, just opened a boutique hotel, the George Inn, there. But the 60-year-old makeup maven and businesswoman also has a place in NYC and spends many weekends in Manhattan, meeting with friends, hanging with her family, and traversing the city in her beloved Allbirds sneakers. She tells The Post’s Molly Shea about her weekend.
My husband and I have an apartment on the High Line, so I walk it as much as possible. People don’t understand how phenomenally beautiful it is. It’s my favorite thing about New York right now.
On Friday nights, we often go to Bombay Bread Bar (formerly Paowalla), in Soho. It’s the most delicious Indian food I’ve ever tasted. I order a vegetable plate with their beautiful coconut sauce on the side. I’m every chef’s nightmare, because I ask for everything without sauce and butter and all sorts of things, and somehow they cook it with flavor, but no fat.
In the morning, I usually stop at Chelsea Market, at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange, and get fresh-squeezed lemon juice. It’s literally the most ridiculous, expensive thing ever — I think it’s like $25 a gallon. I have fresh lemon water in the morning before I have my espresso, and then I make lemonade during the day, with stevia instead of sugar. Truthfully, I’m just too lazy to squeeze lemons and get the seeds out.
I’m always looking to shop. One of my favorite destinations is Story, in Chelsea — it changes every month, and I’ve gotten a lot of things I don’t need. I really like Ted Muehling in Soho — I buy a lot of earrings there as gifts. I have the Just Bobbi shop at Lord & Taylor, so I’m always looking for new things I can bring in there.
For dinner, Sushi Nakazawa is one of our favorites. You don’t need to order — you just sit there. [Even] as someone who doesn’t eat carbs often, I eat their rice. It’s just so beautiful.
I have a caricature [of myself] at that steakhouse, the Palm, and [my] picture on the wall at Rao’s. And at one of my favorite spots downtown, Sant Ambroeus, I got to sign a plate on their wall. You know you’ve made it when you’ve got a plate on the wall there.