Thanksgiving week always reshapes the city. People travel in, people fly out to gather with their loved ones, and everything shifts gears.
The city quiets, the hustle slows down, and the spotlight moves to our neighborhood shops, restaurants, and local watering holes - the spaces that receive us as we drift through the firsts of the holiday season.
It’s a softer kind of week. Less urgency, more hanging. The sort of days where you slip into a café for a warm-up, linger in a store longer than planned, or end up at a bar with someone you didn’t expect to see. A little social, a little flirty, a little open.
If you’re staying put, passing through, or just filling the gaps between family plans, here are a few places worth dropping into while the city exhales.