My husband and I have become serious creatures of habit. Although we live in one of the most exciting cities in the world, we tend to stick around our neighborhood for date nights and brunches. A favorite spot in the ‘hood is East End Kitchen and we end up eating here at least once/week.

We keep coming back because it’s casual, comfortable, close-by and has amazing farm-to-table dinner and brunch menus with an equally awesome cocktail list. It’s become comforting to us at this point (shit are we officially an old married couple?).

I love meeting Anel there after work, waiting for him at the bar with a glass of wine and recapping our days over chopped salads and seared ahi tuni (or a burger and fries, let’s be real).

This is a pretty typical date-night look for me as I’m usually meeting him after a day at the office. How Upper East Side do I look? Now if only the blazer was Chanel . . . One day ladies, one day! In the meantime, this Zara version seriously dresses up a plain black jeans and white button down look.

Photos by Rebecca Dale Photography.

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