After a 10 hour trek from plane to plane to plane, we were starving and looking to finish the day with a good meal to get us ready for the next day. We found a sushi/Japanese restaurant two steps from our hotel. A buffet 95 feet long and I took the time to count 140 different dishes from cold to hot. Many salads, sushi rolls, sushi cones made to order, sashimi everything, grilled meats, grilled seafood, whole fishes I had never tasted, crispy soft shell crabs, king crab legs, crab cakes, rice dishes, noodle dishes, and so much more… we finished our enormous meal at the ice cream and crepes station… wow I love New York!
A couple days later, we stopped to grab a slice at a famous pizza joint… all of them are actually famous according to locals. Great flavours, great selection and almost no place to sit and eat. The tables were so packed in that restaurant that I could kiss my wife without stretching at all. I love New York!
Our next stop was a very cozy wine and cheese bar in the Soho district. The kitchen was smaller than most house kitchens and to go get supplies you had to go outside the building, open a steel door on the sidewalk and go down a set of extremely narrow stairs. The food was really good and we tasted a few great wines too. I love New York!
One morning we took three subways across town and walked six blocks in the driving wind just to go taste a few donuts. This was a really fun shop we had heard about a year ago watching our CBS Sunday Morning TV show. Not disappointing at all, peanut butter and jelly glaze and the coconut filled and covered with a coconut fondant that was to die for. That night we went to see the Knicks play basketball at the Madison Square Garden and they actually won just for us! I love New York!
It was not the most relaxing holiday, but an extremely brain stimulating kind of holiday. So much to see in a place where the word big does not even begin to explain the size and magnitude of everything.
I will have more about our holiday and my work day(stage) at an amazing restaurant next week.
I love New York!
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