Tuesdays with TT: Alma 33

Ah, Valentine’s Day. A time to celebrate with your significant other and help the economy with the purchase of flowers, chocolates and an overpriced meal. CT and I don’t “buy in” to the hype of this Hallmark holiday, but we still celebrate in our own special way. Yes, I did buy her some roses. Last year, I cooked some of my famous BBQ brisket. This year we decided to go out the Sunday before to celebrate (and avoid those notorious Valentine’s prix fixe menus). We decided to check out Alma 33, an Argentinian restaurant in the West Village that our [...]

Boqueria

CT & I have been back for from our Panama trip for a little while now and already have a bunch of NYC based posts for you. Rather than let them get “stale,” we are gonna have a couple bonus posts at 12:15. Enjoy! After an afternoon of upcoming dinner prep and relaxing, we headed out to meet our friend, TX, at Boqueria for tapas. It was the last day of the Blackboard Eats deal of 30% off for the restaurant, and we knew beforehand that we definitely wanted to take advantage of this deal. We had all been to [...]

Reserve

A couple of weeks back, CT & I decided to stay local for “date night.” While Murray Hill isn’t really a foodie neighborhood, there are still plenty of restaurants around that serve up some tasty meals. One such place, Reserve, has treated CT well a couple of times in the past. It is a Thai tapas and wine bar tucked in between the riff-raff of Third Avenue. They have a large selections of wines with a few on special. I forget which red we picked, but it was under $30 and quite drinkable. After reviewing the menu, we ordered a [...]

Casellula

Months and months ago, HB came across a deal for tickets to Wicked.  I’ve been dying to watch Wicked forEVER but could never get tickets, or they were in the wrong area – I was even willing to pay full price for the seats I wanted, but I refuse to pay for orchestra seats in the back of the orchestra.  Why should I pay $112.50 (or so) to sit 20 rows back when the people sitting in the first 10 rows mostly paid that as well?!  In any case, we managed to get tickets for a reasonable price (considering it’s [...]

Tuesdays with TT: La Fonda Del Sol

CT’s Dad has been traveling all over the world the past couple months for work.  On a recent Thursday night, CT & I were invited to dinner in order to catch up since we hadn’t seen him in a long time.  We decided on La Fonda Del Sol in the Met Life Building next to Grand Central Station.  My Dad was here for lunch a couple months back and raved about it.   I recently read the book, Appetite City by William Grimes, about the culinary history of New York.  It was very interesting and it turns out La Fonda [...]

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