CULTURE & LEISURE • Friday Routine
CRESSIDA GREENING & EMIR DUPEYRON • co-owners • Dolores & Winona’s
Neighborhood you work & live in: Bed-Stuy
It’s Friday afternoon, how are you rolling into the weekend?
Since we usually spend weekends with our daughter, Fridays are usually spent back and forth between our two restaurants, attempting to tie up any loose ends from the week and making sure everything is good to go and everyone is on point, ready for the weekend. Luckily, our teams are pros and can be trusted to execute everything without us.
Once we have everything ready to go, we pick our daughter up from school together and will hit the playground circuit. We’ll usually try and do a family dinner, probably at somewhere like Bamonte’s or Pastis. We love a New York classic.
Where are you drinking or dining this weekend?
We can’t wait to get back to Bong in Crown Heights. I just love what they have going on there and have so much respect for Cha and the team. It is a true labor of love, and the food is insanely delicious. We’ll also stop by at some point and see our friend Felipe over at Cerveceria Havemeyer in Williamsburg — lowkey some of the best Mexican food in the city and just a very chill vibe.
How about a little leisure or culture?
Weekends for us are family affairs. Whenever we can both get away from the restaurants, in the summer we will go somewhere like Jacob Riis or down to Coney Island, stopping at Mtskheta Cafe on the way home for some Georgian food. In the winter, we usually head into the city and hit up the Met or the Natural History Museum, then head down to Koreatown for some K-BBQ or drive over to Little Pepper in Flushing for the best Szechuan food.
Any weekend getaways?
Our close friends moved Upstate to Livingston Manor a few years ago, and have cultivated the most beautiful home and community up there. We love visiting them to scratch that nature itch, although after a few days, I inevitably find a renewed conviction that I am still very much a city person. But it’s fun to cosplay country for a long weekend.
What was your last great vacation?
Earlier this year, we went to Mexico and took a mini road trip from the south of Mexico City, stopping in Cuernavaca and Tepoztlan. This was by no means our first time in and around Mexico City, since it’s where Emir grew up, but it was really special to go this time around with the lens of sourcing for Dolores — both art and also ideas, recipes, and other inspiration.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
After over a decade of being a devotee and evangelist of classical pilates, I finally bit the bullet and ordered some Gratz equipment to fit out the classical pilates home studio of my dreams.
What store or service do you always recommend?
567 Framing in Bushwick is our go to spot for framing all our art both for home and our restaurants. I have been to a lot of framers in the past, but now only work with these guys. Their work is impeccable and they just get it. Going back to Pilates, I can’t recommend Summer at LAB Pilates enough — she’s my girl.