[Briana Swanson makes a wish at the Eldridge. Ariel Moses and John Munson look on]

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Briana Swanson’s birthday party at the Eldridge last night brought out all of the usual suspects including owner Matt Levine and Francesco Civetta (who was DJ).  Others included Liam McMullan, Nick Hunt, Vanessa Bokaemper, John Munson, Ariel Moses, Sebastian Bland, Sam Talbot, Katie Gall, Shawn McDonald, Mechelle Easterlain, Scott Buccheit, Naeem Delbridge, Jenn Long, Gage Cass, Tara Church, Tom Metzker and Stephanie Wei and David Karp among others.  More photos below….

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Joahan Pfeiffer, Matt Levine, and the folks over at The Eldridge are taking a trip to Paris.  The Maison Blanche is in for quite a surprise. Because the Eldridge has teamed up with Armand De Brignac and have gathered up DJ Josh Madden and DJ M.O.S. and they mean business!

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Want to know where the Brains behind the Eldridge operation goes to hang out?  Read below from Matt Levine’s most recent interview in BlackBook Magazine today:

Where do you go out? La Esquina, great atmosphere, great food, and great concept. Norwood, love the privacy, the different themes, the lobby bar, the restaurant, the lounge, and the quality of service service. Rose Bar, great vibe, great cocktails, and great design.

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Still think Matt Levine, owner of the Eldridge, is a shady character? How’s this for holiday cheer. We have just received an invite from the man himself for a special Thanksgiving complimentary champagne tasting at the Ridge.  What a guy. Seriously.  After blogger Brittany Mendenhall gave his cocktail a sub par review, and DBTH suggested she go to champagne school, (“…come on. It’s Armand with gold flakes. Let’s respect the cocktail here”). Matt has jumped in to save the day.

We are so excited we can barely stand it.  Toasting some of the people that we are most thankful for with champagne at the Eldridge?  This is going to be the best Thanksgiving yet!  Click below to read what the email said:

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We’ve been surprisingly good boys for the last three days. We’ve been going to just as many events as usual, but we’ve been home by 11. Monday found us at the Blackbook welcomes Steve Lewis at Aspen Social. We serendipitously ran into Rachelle as we exited cabs and hit the event together. We ran into Steve Lewis first thing. He was holding court with Blackbook’s Cayte Grieve and owner Ari Horowicz. No sooner had we said our hello then Steve insisted on giving us all a tour. Once the tour was over we ran into Jen Gatien, Steve Kasuba and Debbie Harry. Having seen the host and the space we made our exits.

Tuesday we first went to John Varvatos’s private dinner at Mario Batalli’s Italian Wine Merchants. The party was to commemorate the watch that John designed with Ernest Benz. We were greeted by Robert Fowler and ate some scrumptious pasta and juicy steak. We rushed out to make the next party at the IAC. The party sponsor was Audi and the hostess was the lovely Padma Lakshmi. You couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a promoter and in a few minutes we ran into…

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[Diana Papanova, Scott Buccheit, with Eldridge owner Matt Levine]

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We just got home from our week long vacation at the Hearst Estate in California called Wyntoon. Wyntoon is 100,000 acre estate in northern California. We were the guests of Gillian Hearst Simonds and her husband Christian Simonds. We spent a week relaxing, tanning and being fed by a private chef. Some other sites were wondering why Naeem was not at the door at the Eldridge last week. Wyntoon is the reason why. He actually did cut into his vacation to be at the Eldridge for the opening night. Other sites wouldn’t know that because they obviously were not invited. There has been no fall out between him and owner Matt Levine. We arrived in New York at 5pm and Naeem was at the Eldridge door by 8pm.

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[Naeem with the ladies of NonSociety]

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We started our night with dinner at Waverly Inn. We had a large group including, Sparrow, Ro Pennuliar (Allure), Eric Spear, Will Wikle, and Timo Weiland. Waverly was a scene as always and we really couldn’t enjoy ourselves as we had overbooked ourselves again. After not so much as a cocktail, we air kissed the group and headed out the door and were pleasantly surprised to bump into Kipton Cronkite’s on our way out.

We next went downtown to the Martini & Rossi/Interview magazine party at the New Museum. As is the case with all parties held there, the door was a nightmare and after wrangling in (Thank you Douglas Marshall!) We headed upstairs to drink Martini & Rossi on the rocks, which is surprisingly quite good.

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So there was a lot of hubbub caused by our one little paragraph about the Eldridge last week. Who broke the story, what’s the Eldridge like, etc…Matt Levine decided to end some of the controversy and give us an “exclusive” first look at the Eldridge and allow us to publish the first ever pictures right here on Guest of a Guest.

We did a little walk through on Saturday at the Eldridge and it is truly a beautiful space. The club features a hand-stamped golden floor with customized golden flakes, chocolate chesterfield leather banquettes, exposed brick on one side, and then customized crystallized field stone on the other. The room will be highlighted with an Armand de Brignac champagne wall, valued at over $650,000. The room will have only 13 tables with a capacity of 150 people.

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Let us catch our breath before we begin. Ok, ready, here we go.

We began our night with dinner at La Esquina with Matt Levine. Matt is the owner/designer of Steelo Clothing but we weren’t there to discuss clothes. He was excited to tell us about his newest venture, The Eldridge. The Eldridge is the name of the new club that is going to be opening within the next couple of weeks. We know you’ve all heard this before, but we believe this time it’s true, the Eldridge is going to be unlike any club in New York City. The Eldridge is going to be more exclusive and luxurious than anything currently out there. It is going to raise the bar on New York nightlife. And that’s all we can say…for now.

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