On Saturday night, we celebrated Ken’s roommate’s birthday at Trattoria Alba. The restaurant has pretty good reviews online and I was excited to have Italian food after eating so much healthy food (apparently Joe and EY felt the same way because they ate salads for an entire week!) The restaurant is located close to the [...]
Benjamin’s Steak House invited me to dine at their restaurant last night to sample their upcoming Mother’s day menu. I was super excited – not just because I love steak, but because I haven’t eaten it in 21 days. I finished my final weigh in from the fight diet with a good weigh in (still [...]
Last Wednesday, the weather was absolutely terrible (rain and hail all day!) and I had a pretty miserable fall on my way to a pilates class after work. I wasn’t feeling that great but Ken called me at work and asked if I wanted to have dinner at Gilt. I asked him if it was [...]
One of the last restaurants I visited was Gilt at the Palace Hotel. Originally, the plan was to visit with a reader (and chef!) but our schedules never worked out because our work schedules were so different. I ended up visiting with my mom right before Christmas – the courtyard is already really beautiful and [...]
I was quite excited to visit Adour at the St. Regis hotel because it seemed like the restaurant was on the higher end of the one-star Michelin restaurants. A lot of critics of the Michelin review guides say that the reviewers just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to anything but French [...]
