"We all have that one friend we lie to and say the dinner reservation is 30 minutes earlier than it actually is in the hopes they’ll be on time. If even that doesn’t ensure punctuality, there’s always Nine Mile Station on the rooftop of O4W’s Ponce City Market. The $25 per person deposit at the time of reservation (which gets credited on the final bill) grants access to Skyline Park’s carnival games and mini golf. So instead of playing the waiting game while listening to your stomach growl, you can at least grab a drink and play a real game. When the last stragglers make it, the dishes at this gastropub, like juicy P.E.I. mussels and perfectly thin beef carpaccio, have powerful flavors that’ll make time irrelevant. Just wait to snap the group picture in front of the epic skyline view when the crew is all there, okay? " - nina reeder, juli horsford, demarco williams, jacinta howard
