Last week, 12 of us from work went to Olive Garden for lunch. It started off as someone wanting breadsticks and we kidded around about it, saying it would be really funny if we went to Olive Garden for lunch, but our jokes turned into reality when I got a meeting invite from one of [...]
A couple weeks ago, I was approached by a marketing firm about a new food truck that is going around the United States serving Mexican food inspired by a new tequila, Camarena. I usually don’t bother with emails from marketing firms but they offered me the chance to ride with the chef and the brand [...]
I made a quick trip to the Limelight Marketplace to get gelato with Ken after a long week of work. There were a lot of flavors to choose from, but we settled with yogurt with berries and mocha with chocolate chips: The yogurt was my pick because it wasn’t overly sweet like the other flavors [...]
A couple weeks ago, I went on a date to Franciscos Centro Vasco because we were in the mood for lobster: The lobster meat was surprisingly tender for being so large (I’ve heard that the larger the lobster, the tougher the meat). We ordered a five pound broiled lobster with tons of clarified butter, baked [...]
If you’ve been following my Michelin Monday posts, you can tell that I’m almost done with all of the 2010 Michelin-starred restaurants! I still need dining partners for the following restaurants – please e-mail me (gracenotesnyc at gmail dot com) if you’d like to eat with me…I promise we’ll have a good time! We can [...]
