New York, days 5 and 6
Okay, I should really wrap up my NY trip posts. The trip was 4 months ago! I’ll just cram the rest of the pictures and restaurants into the two last posts. This post will cover days 5 and 6, and the last one will mostly be about awesome Asian food I had the pleasure of eating on days 7 and 8. I’ll try to write them both in one night, so I can continue writing about the recipes I’ve tried the last few weeks.
Day 5 started at Paradiso, a small place in the East Village. Their coffee is awesome, and the paninis are big and tasty. The fruit for the granola was a little overripe though. I skipped lunch, and had dinner at a very nice place called Casimir. Their staff is so friendly! I can really recommend getting two half dishes instead of one big one. I had a half plate with duck breast, haricots verts and mashed potatoes, with another half plate of sautéed spinach with garlic.
After dinner, we visited a great club called Pianos, but we didn’t eat anything there, so I’m going to skip that.
When I woke up the next morning, I really need a big breakfast (I blame beer). We went to the same diner we visited earlier that week: 7A. A little stack of blueberry pancakes filled my tummy with deliciousness, and I even got to steal a bite of the California omelette from the other side of the table, where husband was devouring his breakfast at lightning speed.
Around lunch time, I was 300 meters above the streets of New York, on the Empire State Building. What a superb way to see the city! We had picked a very clear day to visit, which meant we could see all the way up past Central Park, at least till 116th St. After this awesomely-insane-cool trip, we went for a sandwich at Eisenberg’s, one of New York’s oldest sandwich shops. A BLT sandwich quickly found its way into my stomach, combined with a cream soda that made my teeth shake because of the amount of sugar in there. Fueled by this lunch, we strolled around Greenwich Village until it was time to visit Brooklyn for one of my happiest food moments that week (the happiest is still to come, in the next post!).
Dinner that night was at Fette Sau. It means Fat Pig. The only things on the menu at this restaurant are pigs and cows, unless you count the complementary bread and coleslaw. We had to stand in line at least 30 minutes before we could order any of the delicious pig/cow parts, and after that we had to fight for a place on the long wooden tables. Little did we know that you’re supposed to get a spot first, then order bear and let one person of your group stand in line to order meat.
We eventually got ourselves a nice spot on one of the big tables, and started our food fest. I am a very, very big fan of dead charred animal flesh. I’m an even bigger fan of this when it’s served on a no-nonsense tray, with 5 chunks of bread and a big slab of coleslaw. I’m not sure how much we ate in terms of weight, but I’m fairly certain we ate at least half a pig and a quarter of cow. All in all we paid around $110 for the 5 of us (beer excluded) for a scary amount of meat in a delicious sauce.
I’m definitely going back to Fette Sai in the summer, because that’s when you can sit outside to eat your tray of meaty goodness. Omnomnom…
