In 1995, Meigher Communications, which already owned Family Health, Garden Design, and Saveur purchased Quest.

Quest's target audience includes both first and second generation readers, those who helped launch the magazine, and those who grew up on it.

The magazine showcases New York's most elegant charities, parties, and families, both past and present.

The magazine also publishes David Patrick Columbia's "New York Social Diary", a monthly chronicle of society circuit parties.

Contributors have included Dominick Dunne, David Halberstam, Liz Smith, Taki Theodoracopulos, Michael Thomas, Garry Wills,[1] and photographers Slim Aarons and Harry Benson.