L’ecole – Restaurant of the French Culinary Institute

A few weekends ago, my darling friend HB snagged a free Sunday of mine to take me out for my birthday brunch.  (Yeah, our schedules are crazy right now, so it’s been really hard to coordinate – although by the time this posts, it’ll be December, and honestly, this brunch took place in early November… yes, I’m running far, far behind!)  L’ecole, the restaurant of the French Culinary Institute, was chosen as our location – a great place for a starting off point since we wound up walking around and shopping afterwards… instead of studying…   The space was bright [...]

Xie Xie

I had the good fortune to be able to score tickets to Hamlet before the show closed… and I think I’ve only mentioned briefly my love of theater (watching, not participating!) here, but it is one of the things I absolutely adore about NYC.  (About 4 years ago, I set out to see one show a month, and did this for about a year before it got too expensive and I’d seen nearly everything I wanted to.  It was awesome.)  In any case, I just read Hamlet for English class this semester (nope, I never read it before), and watching [...]

Pasta Lover’s

After a hard day of shopping and emotionally draining discussions, BFF and I decided we wanted big bowls of pasta, comfort food.  During the drive back home, we searched on our phones and finally decided on Pasta Lover’s, where I’d been once ten years ago and didn’t remember too clearly besides not hating it (I usually remember places I hate very vividly, because I complain about them for days (weeks?) afterwards, which ingrains them into my memory).   As soon as we were seated, we were presented with little bruschetta bites.  Yummy, even though tomatoes are no longer in season.  Since [...]

Stew Leonard’s

I’ve mentioned Stew Leonard’s a few times before in various instances but never really posted about the cooked food they offer there (aside from their New England clam chowder, which I’ve raved about plenty).  Well, a few weeks ago, the BFF and I took a trip up to the outlets (where I fell in love with this awesome handbag… sigh!) and on our way up, swung by Stew’s for lunch.  There’s a pay-by-the-lb. ‘buffet’ serve-yourself area, a deli counter where you can order goodies (like we did), and a soup serve-yourself area too (which we also did, but I didn’t [...]

Blue Ribbon

Recently, post-class, I snagged a friend and off we went to Blue Ribbon.  It wasn’t quite late enough to catch the chefs as they came off shift, but it was late enough but still packed, so we sat at the bar right in front of this lovely sight: the yummy seafood display.  We even watched as the guy put together a seafood tower that looked awesome, but alas, two people cannot justify eating all that.  (Well… we could… but I had eaten dinner and just wanted a light bite.)  CL opted to get the shrimp remoulade; I believe happy with [...]

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