Jonah Reider knows how to host a good dinner party. Last May, the 31-year-old chef and entrepreneur opened the Spot, an airy loft with an open kitchen in New York’s Little Italy, where he develops multi-course menus by day and hosts candlelit dinners for up to 24 people by night. The loft is reserved for a single party at a time, ensuring privacy for guests. So far, everyone from The Dare to AnnaSophia Robb has dined there.
Music plays a key role in the evenings. A trained jazz pianist himself, Reider outfitted the space with an old upright piano, an upright bass, and “beautiful old cymbals on a drum set,” he tells me.
