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The over-excitable crowd over at Revel’s Day And Night Brunch celebrated the beginning of yet another week with champagne and sparklers. More»

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By now, the Day & Night Brunches at Revel have successfully switched from being a summer-y beach institution, to an autumnal city institution. And while the people might vary from week to week (slightly.), there are some parts of the Koch Brothers‘ brunches that are always the same… More»

[Brotherly Love]

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The Sunflower Children held its third annual poker, fashion and sports gala at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday. Daniel and Derek Koch, the brothers behind some of New York’s most popular boozy brunches, didn’t actually try and kill each other, but they did take to the ring for a charity boxing match.

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Select lucky (and hard core) party-goers started the Halloween celebrations early, with the Koch twins Halloween Brunch at the Garden at Revel before moving on to enjoy one last bash at Cipriani’s upstairs before it closes for renovations. More»

[Ashley Dupree takes a break from work this Saturday]

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It’s going to be one big party of a fall, judging from the debut summer transplant brunch of the Koch brothers‘ Day & Night in the garden at Revel. Just when you thought you had finally bid adieu to rosé, the big bottles of pink passed among the crowd, flares not far behind. Spitzer call-girl Ashley Dupre Saturday’d it up (did the velvet rope take a cigarette break?), her second recent appearance on the scene, as did Naeem Delbridge, DJ Francesco Civetta, Ariel Moses, Amanda Mitchell, Matt Oliver and many others getting ready to give summer a run for its money. More»

After we broke the news that Team Bagatelle was taking over the Merkato 55 space this fall, everyone began to wonder where the Koch brothers (who ran the brunch there last season) were heading with their gang of loyal followers this month. Today, we receive word that Derek and Daniel will be taking over The Garden at Revel (10 little west 12th street) in Meatpacking.  Looks like it will be a new season of the Battle of the Brunches. We can’t wait. Let the games begin!  The first brunch under the twins’ Dual Groupe will take place tomorrow!

[Champagne Superman at Bagatelle] With fall just around the corner, it’s time to start looking at where your options are to get your Booze Brunch in order.  Last season, we covered the “Battle of the Brunches,” a fight to the end between Team Bagatelle (run by Remi Laba and Aymeric Clemente) and Team Merkato 55 (Run by twins Derek and Daniel Koch). This season, in what appears to be an ironic twist in the history of the beleaguered Merkato 55 space, the duo from Team Bagatelle have signed on to take over the Merkato 55 space, neutralizing any competition in wild Saturday brunching, at least in the Meatpacking district. Apparently Remi and Aymeric are planning to turn the Merkato 55 space into an Italian Brasserie and are teaming up with a certain St. Bart’s restaurateur that goes by “Pascal” (story developing)…. More»

[DJ Cohen with a pair of Upper Echelon Shoes]

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Fashionistas, socials, celebrities, and nightlife staples gathered at the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel last night. The weather was impeccable, and as the Grey Goose flowed, Alan Philips, Josh Shames, and Track Entertainment celebrated the launch of Deluxe Experience (DeluxeXP.com) with Upper Echelon Shoes. 

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For those of you that missed it, Merkato 55 was recently renamed Le 55. Not a hard miss given that the name change has happened with little fanfare (at least up to this point).  But what might have caught your attention is the increased exposure of one of the restaurant’s early stakeholders Brazilian super model Fernanda Mott and her relationship to the boozy brunch franchise. More»

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via hamptons.guestofaguest.com: OMFG it’s here!  Summer that is…and crazy parties out east. We can’t resist the nostalgic feelings of BED that this photo conjured up.  Where in the world was something like this happening?

It was the Koch Brother’s new Day & Night party in Southampton of course! Read all about the party that helped start off summer ‘09. MORE >>>

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Before summer hits, we want to take one last look at the Merkato 55 brunches, which have made up some of our favorite best 2k’s over the last months.  Lucky for the Koch Brothers, they are twins and always in two places at once. Though they will have their hands full in Southampton, for the unveiling of the Day & Night Restaurant Beach Club in the Pink Elephant, Capri space, and all of the parties that entails; they will still be taking reservations at Merkato. We can not wait to check out the space this weekend. In the meantime, one last look at the party that truly made “brunch” a verb in Manhattan.

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