New York Journalist Aaron Hicklin offers up his 9 favorite local spots

Mildred’s Lane“This is the most radical thing in the Catskills, period. Artist J. Morgan Puett, who just won a Guggenheim fellowship, her friend Mark Dion, and their son, Grey Rabbit, have turned this 94-acre plot of land into a magnet for artists and architects, who collaborate on environmental and domestic projects. I’ve been to dinner there, and even tried mimicking Morgan’s hyper-artistic approach to curating her refrigerator as if a piece of art.” 37B Main Street, Narrowsburg, New York; mildredslane.com