Tailored suits, personalized chocolates, monogrammed towels — if you can swing it, why bother with generic stuff.

Unless you’re at a restaurant on a Friday night (when rampant modification elicits sighs from your server).

Save your pickiness for Uzu, ...

Between slipping in slush, getting splattered by cabbies who delight in spraying you with road sludge, and spending the rest of the day at work freezing wet, you’re not going anywhere once you get back home.

But award-winning culinary master ...

Running from work to Wine & Spirits is de rigueur for your BYO lifestyle. (Unfortunately, it also accounts for the only exercise you do all day. Thanks, Boss Man.)

Avoid the liquor store detour when you dine at The Table, ...

They say there are no recipes for perfection.

But Jim and Kristina Burke, the husband-wife team behind new restaurant James, have managed to whip up more than a few.

For starters: the mushroom cappuccino, a thick soup with a frothy ...

If you ever encounter a goose, you’re likely to learn that it’s a rather wifty creature.

Especially the kind that can lay a golden egg (what a neat party trick!). Which is what Jack Henderson must have been thinking of ...

Cuppies, cupping, and cheap crustaceans? Talk about some happy weekending.

BUY
Cupcakes
What: Buttercream, chocolate, red velvet, and more!
Why: They’re tastier than shoes.
When: Tues.-Sat., noon-7 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m.
Where: Brown Betty Dessert Boutique

There are plenty of words — umlaut, niçoise, nuclear — that you (and the president) have trouble pronouncing, no matter how hard you try.

Today’s humdinger is “Xochitl.”

Luckily, you don’t have to say it in order to ...