Today
(because I don't post about "my day" anymore ever.)
I googlemapsed my day and apparently we walked nearly 5 miles! Google tells me we could have walked this in 1.5 hrs if we had really FOCUSED. :-) Well, I was in heels. And easily distracted. :-)
- Leave apartment at maybe 2 for the nearby Madeleine Patisserie to get a free macaron. (It's Macaron Day here in NYC!) One pistachio, one lavender grand marnier, and one tarte tatin for later.
- Walk on to L.A. Burdick to get another free macaron. One ginger, one chocolate. Run into my coworker James and his friend - they are on the same mission. :-)
- Walk back to 5th and stop by VS to exchange something. Stop at Bistro Truck across the street for a lamb sandwich. Run into James and his friend again - apparently they were thwarted at Shake Shack because the lines were too long.
- After lamb sandwich, decide am too full to stick with original plan of getting kedgeree (REALLY! KEDGEREE!) so meander over to Greenmarket. Nothing good today, so sit at Union Sq East for a while with iced green tea and Saturday NYT.
- Walk down 4th ave. (Pass interesting burriteria along the way, but too full for anything. Next time.) Realize that Dessert Truck should be nearby, they are also giving out free macarons. Cut to 3rd ave. Dessert Truck not there. Cafe Zaiya is, though! So pick up a curry-pan. Then realize Sunrise Mart is nearby, so backtrack up there to pick up Japanese coffee jelly. Stop by Panya on way out and see more macarons! But decide four in one day is enough, even though yuzu and chocolate anise both looked good.
- Walk through the NYU 'hood down to Wash Square Park cos there is supposed to be a band playing for dancers. They are not there. (But everyone else in the universe is, apparently. Sunny day out!) Walk through the park, exit into a street fair, battle street fair crowd, decide street fairs are increasingly a waste of time.
- Emerge into West Village. Wander around aimlessly for a bit, pass interesting cevicheria, eventually wind up at Murray's Cheese. Apparently they now do hot sandwiches. One sandwich option is The Spaniard: jamon serrano, manchego, membrillo, on the grill. Cave and get one. Sit outside on bench in the sun and swoon from how good it is. See our friends Heidi & Joe on street - they were dancing with the band earlier! Apparently band wrapped early, though, which is why we didn't see them. They see the sandwich and it looks so good they decide to get their own. We hang with them until the sandwich is done and then head off in different directions.
- Next stop: Cornelia St. I'm full from the sandwich, but Ben still wants dinner. Maybe Po? Maybe Pearl Oyster? Pass 3 gen tourist fam, mom is about to suggest dinner at Home. I tell them it's not that great, so they ask where they can get pasta because daughter is running a half-marathon tomorrow. Ben suggests Morandi -- we google their location and phone number and send them on their way. (I hope they found it and that the pasta was good!)
- Turns out Pearl Oyster is not an option -- the place is MOBBED. Head back out to 7th and revisit cevicheria -- Ben decides he doesn't want that for dinner. What does he want? Dunno. We'll walk until we find something.
- We turn from 7th onto W 4th and keep walking until we hit Smorgas Chef, a little Swedish mini-chain of restaurants that I've eaten at before but Ben never has. (Beth: chicken caramel goat cheese sandwich - so many different things it COULD be!) Dinner's good! Bread and chive butter, herring on blini with a shot of aquavit (I sip the aquavit neat instead, I quite like it), an aquavit cocktail with peaches, strawberries, and cilantro (Ben ends up drinking this because I have the aquavit) gravlax with dill sauce, swedish meatballs with gravy, lingonberry jam, potatoes & veg, vanilla waffles with cloudberry jam & whipped cream (cloudberries are AMAZING).
- From there it's a quick cut onto 8th and a straight walk home, getting there around 9pm. Very much not the 90-min walk the map claims, but we got a lot done. :-)
You know, if I didn't like food, I don't know what I'd do with my free time. Eh, I'm sure I'd find something. :-)
I googlemapsed my day and apparently we walked nearly 5 miles! Google tells me we could have walked this in 1.5 hrs if we had really FOCUSED. :-) Well, I was in heels. And easily distracted. :-)
- Leave apartment at maybe 2 for the nearby Madeleine Patisserie to get a free macaron. (It's Macaron Day here in NYC!) One pistachio, one lavender grand marnier, and one tarte tatin for later.
- Walk on to L.A. Burdick to get another free macaron. One ginger, one chocolate. Run into my coworker James and his friend - they are on the same mission. :-)
- Walk back to 5th and stop by VS to exchange something. Stop at Bistro Truck across the street for a lamb sandwich. Run into James and his friend again - apparently they were thwarted at Shake Shack because the lines were too long.
- After lamb sandwich, decide am too full to stick with original plan of getting kedgeree (REALLY! KEDGEREE!) so meander over to Greenmarket. Nothing good today, so sit at Union Sq East for a while with iced green tea and Saturday NYT.
- Walk down 4th ave. (Pass interesting burriteria along the way, but too full for anything. Next time.) Realize that Dessert Truck should be nearby, they are also giving out free macarons. Cut to 3rd ave. Dessert Truck not there. Cafe Zaiya is, though! So pick up a curry-pan. Then realize Sunrise Mart is nearby, so backtrack up there to pick up Japanese coffee jelly. Stop by Panya on way out and see more macarons! But decide four in one day is enough, even though yuzu and chocolate anise both looked good.
- Walk through the NYU 'hood down to Wash Square Park cos there is supposed to be a band playing for dancers. They are not there. (But everyone else in the universe is, apparently. Sunny day out!) Walk through the park, exit into a street fair, battle street fair crowd, decide street fairs are increasingly a waste of time.
- Emerge into West Village. Wander around aimlessly for a bit, pass interesting cevicheria, eventually wind up at Murray's Cheese. Apparently they now do hot sandwiches. One sandwich option is The Spaniard: jamon serrano, manchego, membrillo, on the grill. Cave and get one. Sit outside on bench in the sun and swoon from how good it is. See our friends Heidi & Joe on street - they were dancing with the band earlier! Apparently band wrapped early, though, which is why we didn't see them. They see the sandwich and it looks so good they decide to get their own. We hang with them until the sandwich is done and then head off in different directions.
- Next stop: Cornelia St. I'm full from the sandwich, but Ben still wants dinner. Maybe Po? Maybe Pearl Oyster? Pass 3 gen tourist fam, mom is about to suggest dinner at Home. I tell them it's not that great, so they ask where they can get pasta because daughter is running a half-marathon tomorrow. Ben suggests Morandi -- we google their location and phone number and send them on their way. (I hope they found it and that the pasta was good!)
- Turns out Pearl Oyster is not an option -- the place is MOBBED. Head back out to 7th and revisit cevicheria -- Ben decides he doesn't want that for dinner. What does he want? Dunno. We'll walk until we find something.
- We turn from 7th onto W 4th and keep walking until we hit Smorgas Chef, a little Swedish mini-chain of restaurants that I've eaten at before but Ben never has. (Beth: chicken caramel goat cheese sandwich - so many different things it COULD be!) Dinner's good! Bread and chive butter, herring on blini with a shot of aquavit (I sip the aquavit neat instead, I quite like it), an aquavit cocktail with peaches, strawberries, and cilantro (Ben ends up drinking this because I have the aquavit) gravlax with dill sauce, swedish meatballs with gravy, lingonberry jam, potatoes & veg, vanilla waffles with cloudberry jam & whipped cream (cloudberries are AMAZING).
- From there it's a quick cut onto 8th and a straight walk home, getting there around 9pm. Very much not the 90-min walk the map claims, but we got a lot done. :-)
You know, if I didn't like food, I don't know what I'd do with my free time. Eh, I'm sure I'd find something. :-)