Menchanko-tei

Post-Midtown Lunch February HH, I needed some real food to eat before I passed out drunk on the sidewalk.  (Okay, I wasn’t that blitzed, but still.)  We headed over to nearby Menchanko-tei for some ramen yums!  I also opted to add on two rice balls or onigiri for $3.50, which is a meh price (I usually get them for about $1.50 each, but not freshly made that minute ones).  I got sake (salmon) and mentaiko (spicy cod roe), which were both underfilled and kind of eh for me.  My dining companions – my three bodyguards, hah – tried some and [...]

Grand Central Terminal Market – St. Patrick’s Day Goodies

I’ve mentioned plenty of times how much I like shopping around Grand Central Terminal, and of course they have some St. Patty’s Day offerings.  Yum!  Their PR representative sent over some stuff for me to try… This Shamrock Brownie – you know I don’t like chocolate, but I had to take a big bite out of this (and stop myself from eating the whole thing).  Super fudgy, dense, chocolaty… wow.  If you like chocolate, you really need to pick up one of these adorable brownies – it’ll send you into choco-coma.  Leprechaun cupcake – I gave this to [...]

Nomado

After a few drinks recently in Midtown, I headed over to meet up with HB and her BF for some quick sushi bites.  They introduced me to their neighborhood spot, a local place with some decent bites… Nomado.  We started off with some tataki appetizers.  This was a special so unfortunately I don’t recall the exact name, but it was only alright.  Tuna tataki – again, alright, nothing special but neither horrible, either.  We opted to split a bunch of rolls – Christmas roll on the left, pressed rice with tuna, salmon, eel, avocado… was really good.  I liked the [...]

BCD Tofu

I’ve written about BCD Tofu before, but recently headed back and DIDN’T get soondubu (tofu soup).  Above, the banchan which was, per usual, super tasty, though I was sad we got pasta salad instead of potato salad.  I am addicted to Asian potato salads, which are horrible for you.  And yes, we each got the fried fish again, yay!  SpB ordered bibim dolsot (dolsot bibimbap?).  I only took a picture because I’ve never had bibimbap, something my friends were all like “Whaaa?  How is that possible?!” but I reiterate, I have very little Korean food experience, and this remains to [...]

Le Pain Quotidien

My quick snack at Le Pain Quotidien - the Atlantic smoked salmon tartine, with chopped dill, scallions and avocado.A lot of bright flavors going on, which was really a nice pre-karaoke bite.  I enjoyed this quite a bit – a schmear of avocado, a bit of cucumber or turnip, salad – whatever was on the plate, I pretty much added on top and ate… and it was quite good.  Yvo says: The last time I was at Le Pain Quotidien, I enjoyed it enough, but commented on the price.  As that was over two years ago, the prices have gone up [...]

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