upstate ny: hudson

Truly a special little place, Hudson amazed me in every way. The one main street it has is lined with antique stores, furniture shops, art galleries, and impressive restaurants. You can’t enter even one place without commenting on its high-level of hip. Every single building has character inside and out, from eccentric owners displaying their extraordinary collections to the beautiful architecture that leaves you inquiring how much it’d cost to get an apartment in town.
Breakfast/Brunch
Moto: café stocked with amazing coffee and baked goods that’s also a motorcycle shop
Café le Perche: great breakfast, brunch, and bloody marys
Patisserie Lenox: French bakery
Nolita Café: charming little place to grab a bite
Lunch/Dinner
Fish & Game: hip place for upscale food and wine
Ca’Mea: Italian rest nicely decorated with paintings on walls and easels
Swoon: cute place with a new-American farm-to-table menu
Crimson Sparrow: to satisfy your craving for Japanese food
William Farmer & Sons: rustic-chic, new-American, craft cocktails
Dessert
Lick: deeelicious ice cream
Fresh Markets
Talbott & Arding: tiny gourmet grocery store
Olde Hudson: cured meats, cheese, and fruit
Hudson Famer’s Market: every Saturday morning
Bars
Back Bar: cool and funky
Ör: industrial-chic ambience
Near Hudson
Olana: 10 minute drive for gorgeous views and the eclectic mansion that Frederic Church lived in
Omi: small sculpture park 10 minutes away
Chatham Winery: 15 minute drive
Storm King Art Center: enormous sculpture park in between Hudson and the city—1.5 hours from both—surrounded in the most beautiful fall foliage
