Dinner at the Dining Room at the Mountain Brook Inn.

A divine evening tonight at Gary Simmons' hopping Dining Room... Such fun!

Tonight was a lovely salad, a bean soup, and retro coquille St. Jacques, decadent and delicious, finished with apple tart and carrot cake.

Gary, comme de habitude, was a delightful host, and we met Bea, the LA expat server who will bring you seconds if you ask nicely.

Love that everyone seems to know each other at the restaurant, and sort of fun to not be on the inside... There was Carol from Coldwell Banker who knows everyone. Local man-about-town Hall Wilkie of Brown Harris Stevens. A charming kiddo named, me thinks, Theo.

We took our cool neighbor Diana Parton, a relative of Dolly's who is one of the best seamstresses around.

Welcome to Catskills Living!

My name is Jason Oliver Nixon, and I am a style and lifestyle writer/editor/producer who splits his time between Brooklyn and Hobart, New York, a terrific little town high in the Catskills.

The Catskills is a wonderfully vibrant, beautiful region, but it lacks a website with well-edited information on what to do, where to eat, where to stay... And for homeowners, there's currently no resource for recommended handymen, lawn care services, carpool rides from the city, insider information...

So that's the void I am hoping that Catskills Living will fill. Stay tuned as I start to fill in the blanks.

See you at the Dining Room at the Mountain Brook Inn in Bovina this Saturday night!