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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Inside Prive’s Ultra-Exclusive ‘The Extra Mile’ Dinner at Moss, 5th Avenue

Some dinners are about food. This one was about the room, the people, and everything in between. H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe joined Prive’s ultra-exclusive gathering at Moss on 5th Avenue in New York City, an evening of private hospitality he called amazing, thanking private banking marketing powerhouse Anna Stone.

Prive, a private hospitality platform built around access, considered travel, and experiences shaped around the individual, staged the dinner in a richly appointed room lined with books, dark millwork, warm wood, and scenic wallcovering. The setting carried a private-club intimacy, residential in spirit and refined in ease, made for conversation, photographs, and the subtle ceremony of being welcomed into a highly selective experience.

The dinner was titled The Extra Mile, and the menu lived up to the name. Starters offered two paths: a market salad of Bibb lettuce, frisee, pea tendrils, and tarragon-Dijon vinaigrette, and a miso Caesar with romaine, pinenut sesame crumble, Parmesan, pink peppercorn, and miso Caesar dressing. Mains brought roast chicken with sauteed greens, fingerling potatoes, and romesco, alongside rigatoni with blistered tomato, summer squash, basil, and Parmigiano. Sides of smashed potatoes with lemon labneh and pickled chilies, and sauteed greens with lemon, kept the meal bright and composed.

Dessert arrived family style: pistachio cherry financier, cheesecake bites, chocolate strawberry cake, seasonal fruit tartlet, rainbow cookies, and blondie. The wines were chosen with care, a Rafael Palacios Louro 2024 from Galicia, Spain, in white, and an Elvio Cogno Bricco dei Merli Barbera d’Alba 2022 from Piedmont, Italy, in red. The signature cocktail, also named The Extra Mile, mixed vodka, lime, grapefruit, and club soda.

The presence of an NFL player legend gave the evening an added cultural charge, connecting professional sport to a hospitality experience built for people who value privacy, quality, and meaningful access. Guests left with keepsakes in Prive’s black presentation boxes bearing the brand’s quiet thesis: “Some details are worth traveling for.”

At Moss that night, the details did the talking: the printed menus, the green place markers in gold lettering, the pacing of the courses, the warmth of the room. Modern luxury, the evening suggested, is becoming more personal and more discreet, anchored in experience rather than display.

Originally published on Times Square Chronicles.

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Inside Prive’s Ultra-Exclusive ‘The Extra Mile’ Dinner at Moss, 5th Avenue

Some dinners are about food. This one was about the room, the people, and everything in between. H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe joined Prive’s ultra-exclusive gathering at Moss on 5th Avenue in New York City, an evening of private hospitality he called amazing, thanking private banking marketing powerhouse Anna Stone.

Prive, a private hospitality platform built around access, considered travel, and experiences shaped around the individual, staged the dinner in a richly appointed room lined with books, dark millwork, warm wood, and scenic wallcovering. The setting carried a private-club intimacy, residential in spirit and refined in ease, made for conversation, photographs, and the subtle ceremony of being welcomed into a highly selective experience.

The dinner was titled The Extra Mile, and the menu lived up to the name. Starters offered two paths: a market salad of Bibb lettuce, frisee, pea tendrils, and tarragon-Dijon vinaigrette, and a miso Caesar with romaine, pinenut sesame crumble, Parmesan, pink peppercorn, and miso Caesar dressing. Mains brought roast chicken with sauteed greens, fingerling potatoes, and romesco, alongside rigatoni with blistered tomato, summer squash, basil, and Parmigiano. Sides of smashed potatoes with lemon labneh and pickled chilies, and sauteed greens with lemon, kept the meal bright and composed.

Dessert arrived family style: pistachio cherry financier, cheesecake bites, chocolate strawberry cake, seasonal fruit tartlet, rainbow cookies, and blondie. The wines were chosen with care, a Rafael Palacios Louro 2024 from Galicia, Spain, in white, and an Elvio Cogno Bricco dei Merli Barbera d’Alba 2022 from Piedmont, Italy, in red. The signature cocktail, also named The Extra Mile, mixed vodka, lime, grapefruit, and club soda.

The presence of an NFL player legend gave the evening an added cultural charge, connecting professional sport to a hospitality experience built for people who value privacy, quality, and meaningful access. Guests left with keepsakes in Prive’s black presentation boxes bearing the brand’s quiet thesis: “Some details are worth traveling for.”

At Moss that night, the details did the talking: the printed menus, the green place markers in gold lettering, the pacing of the courses, the warmth of the room. Modern luxury, the evening suggested, is becoming more personal and more discreet, anchored in experience rather than display.

Originally published on Times Square Chronicles.

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: N’Kenge Brings Timeless Glamour to the Jazz Club at Aman on May 29

Some rooms are built for jazz. On May 29, from 9 to 11 PM, the Jazz Club at Aman becomes one of them — with N’Kenge and her All Star Band at its center.

The evening promises more than a concert: a portrait of contemporary jazz culture at its most refined, where artistry, hospitality, and personal style move together. The promotional portrait says it all — N’Kenge composed and confident against a warm, low-lit backdrop, sequined embroidery catching the light, every detail suggesting sophistication without spectacle.

The Room Where Jazz Lives

The Jazz Club at Aman has become one of the most distinctive luxury music venues in the city — intimate, discreet, designed for listening. Rather than treating jazz as nostalgia, the room presents it as a living language: restrained design, warm lighting, and close proximity between artists and audience, so every phrase lands exactly as intended.

N’Kenge fits that philosophy perfectly. Her reputation rests on vocal precision, commanding presence, and classic performance traditions viewed through a modern lens — glamour with substance, elegance with warmth.

An All Star Band

She won’t be alone on stage. The All Star Band brings serious firepower: Paul Shin on piano, providing the melodic sophistication that anchors the ensemble; Lonnie Plaxico on bass, grounding every improvisation; James Gibbs III on trumpet, adding brightness and dramatic contour; and Chris Paredes on drums, shaping the evening’s movement with rhythmic finesse.

In a room this intimate, those details become the whole experience — phrasing and tonal shifts you’d never catch in a larger hall, the architectural resonance of upright bass, the conversation between trumpet and voice.

An Evening, Curated

The 9 PM start follows the natural rhythm of cosmopolitan nightlife — dinner and conversation flowing into music without interruption. RSVP reservations keep the atmosphere attentive and the occasion distinct.

For admirers like H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, the appeal is clear: artists who command both visual and musical attention in intimate spaces are rare, and evenings this carefully composed linger in memory. Through music, design, and hospitality, May 29 at the Jazz Club at Aman offers a modern vision of refined nightlife — proof that jazz, presented with care, never goes out of style.

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Originally published on Times Square Chronicles.