HOOK 13
Pictured: Filet mignon
Rossini. Hudson Valley goat
cheese, mashed potatoes,
black truffle Madeira sauce,
black winter truffles; the fa-
mous coconut layer cake, so
sought a#er by diners that
it remains a staple on the
menu; Creamed corn local
sweet corn with charred
jalapeño, 5 year aged ched-
dar and Parmesan cheese
topped with homemade
puff pastry crust.
ing
the
New
York
Public
Library.
Instead
of
designing
what
could
have
been
a
cookie
cu4er
Gilded
Age
Man-
sion,
the
firm
delivered
much
more,
a
home
with
a
heart
akin
to
the
Tuscan
landscape,
complete
with
an
open
central
cor3le
(courtyard),
marble
columns,
terraces
and
grand
staircases.
While
grand
in
scale,
today
the
spaces
inside
are
in3-
mate
and
draw
drama
from
the
architecture.
Following
an
extensive
renova3on
and
restora3on
project
by
the
current
owners
Alan
Stenberg
and
Dan
DeSimone,
who
transformed
the
property
into
a
bou3que
hotel
with
Re-
lais
&
Châteaux
dis3nc3on,
the
interior
design
is
layered
and
curated
for
casual
elegance.
"You
have
to
have
pas-
sion,"
says
Stenberg
while
recoun3ng
the
decision
to
Frog's End Tavern
