Bond

Bond takes you for a ride in the wayback machine, to a time when money flowed, nightspots were luxe, and people went out without troubling their pretty heads about recessions, stimulus packages, or bonuses other than their own. This Financial District restaurant and lounge, located where Julien once was in the Langham Hotel, is a space of plush carpets and grand chandeliers, marble balconies and vaulted 25-foot ceilings, browns and burgundies and plenty of mirrors. It's housed in the former Federal Reserve Bank and decorated with large-scale reinterpretations of various denominations of bills. Here the dollar is art, and dead presidents gaze down on after-work hobnobbing and after-after-work flirtation with faint smirks. The scene gives you some of the flavor of a Bret Easton Ellis novel without all that pesky reading.