On Thursday night, I went to the Meatball Madness event for New York City Wine and Food Festival. It was a really fun event at a nice event space in Soho and my friend and I ate so many meatballs I don’t think I can go to The Meatball Shop for a while. I didn’t [...]
Before my mom left New York, Ken wanted to take all of us out for a family dinner. My mom let me pick the restaurant (she said she wanted something Italian) and I’ve been wanting to check out Ciano for a while, so I made a late reservation for the new restaurant down the street [...]
Ken and I are huge fans of doughnuts and I always tell him that I’m going to wake up early to pick up doughnuts from the Doughnut Plant (there’s a new outpost in Chelsea that is close enough that I could run there in the mornings but I still haven’t done it.) I’ve been wanting [...]
Down the street from Cafe Riviera is a Polish candy store, Stodycze Wedel: The candy store was completed decorated for Easter and had an assortment of festive Polish candies: There were lots of specialty candies that all included plums – the storekeeper let me sample some of the chocolate covered plums – they had an [...]
Last weekend, I had to pick up some glasses in Greenpoint so I decided to make a day of it. My mom had visited a couple days before my visit so she gave me some suggestions for places to eat. Before Saturday, I had never visited Greenpoint before; I’ve experienced bad subway rides on the [...]
