Argentine vision

Faena New York (New York, NY)

GETAWAYS • New York City

Approaching Faena New York, I spotted Alan Faena, seated at a table by the big picture windows at La Boca on 10th Avenue in West Chelsea. The visionary Argentine hotelier insists on dressing exclusively in white, often with a fedora, making him easy to spot in a crowd. But at lunchtime that afternoon, he was among the only figures in the window of the hotel’s ground-floor restaurant, helmed by legendary chef (and frequent collaborator) Francis Mallmann (intel).