Our Haute 5 Wine Bars represent restaurants that have both superb collections of wine as well as stellar menus. These restaurants are truly places to eat, drink and be merry.

Finally! A Haute 5 list that doesn’t begin with some sad hope that the rain will stop soon. It has ceased! (For now, at least.) In celebration of that, and the fantastic weather, we recommend you get yourself to one of these parks pronto and celebrate the fact that summer or spring—or sometime with nice weather—has finally arrived.

Here at Haute Living, we’ve decided we’re not going to let this bleary weather get us down. Au contraire. We’re just going to keep making summer plans, until summer actually arrives. While to many New Yorkers, summer in the city means leaving it for a few months, let us not forget that a weekend in town doesn’t mean the fun has to end. Below are the Haute 5 private pools in Manhattan, where you can spend your Gotham weekends relaxing in style.

They say that April showers bring May flowers—and we’re hoping May showers bring even more into bloom soon. Whether you’re looking for a unique bouquet for someone special or jaw-dropping designs for an event, read on to learn more about New York’s Haute 5 Florists.

In honor of Cinco De Mayo, warm weather and margaritas everywhere, we bring you the Haute 5 Mexican Restaurants.

In a city where we are constantly chasing the newest trends, sometimes it can be nice to look back too. Here is our list of favorite historical landmarks that truly make New York, New York.

OK, so this was obviously a tough one. We’d could probably list five of these for every 10-block radius in New York. NYC is home to some of the best museums, art galleries, dance companies, musical ensembles and theatrical productions in the world. However to choose? Our list is comprised of five institutions that we think New York would not be the same without—institutions that begin to represent the range of cultural offerings this city has to offer. That said, we’d love to hear your thoughts. What is your can’t-live-without cultural institution? Let us know in the comment section below?

Whether you’re looking to get in shape for summer, or train for the Marathon (it’s only 207 days away!), New York offers a slew of options to satisfy every sprinter.

On Wednesday, the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery on the Upper East Side held an opening party for its latest show, Beyond the War: Contemporary Iraqi Artists of the Diaspora. The exhibit features the work of seven Iraqi artists living outside of Iraq in countries like Sweden, Canada, England, and Qatar. Gallery owner Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller says she loves showing artists from the Middle East, where there is, “some very beautiful, emotionally charged work coming out.”