On the Saturday before our birthday this year, Ken and Laura organized a dinner for our family at Golden Unicorn. We ate a lot of food, including shark fin soup: And duck prepared tableside: The duck skin is all removed carefully by a skilled server and then the carcass is taken back to the kitchen [...]
Laduree opened up their first US shop a little over a month ago on Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. I am very fond of their macarons and must purchase them every time I go to Paris. My friend, Ariel, was nice enough to buy me dozens of macarons from all over Paris the [...]
Last week, one of the designers on our team suggested we take a team field trip to the Met to view the Alexander McQueen exhibit. Ken and I have been talking about going to the upper east side to see the exhibit but we haven’t had a chance, so I was eager to take the [...]
Two years ago, I hosted a very thorough examination of all the cupcake bakeries in New York (see Cupcake Cagematch, Best Cupcakes in New York, and Best Bakeries in NYC to get you started). Williams-Sonoma donated four mixes of Sprinkles cupcake mix but the results were pretty sub-par; I had never visited the actual Sprinkles [...]
The year is almost over and in case you don’t follow me on foursquare, facebook, and twitter, I don’t want to keep you in suspense: I finished all of the Michelin restaurants in New York (with two weeks to spare!) I visited Cafe Boulud near the end of my adventure: My mom and I managed [...]
