No Rain on Hampstead Heath, no sheep either.

A visit to Hampstead Heath is on the agenda and a google search brought me to this blog. With its many entries on Hampstead a good reading left me knowing this is a place to return to. SO as we head out for the day my expectations are high though my need to cover lots […]

Bistro Vendome

French in the neighborhood. Tis is a place I came with my mom and sat on the deck out back. I decided to come back as I was having that steak and fries craving I sat downstairs, tucked into my corner where I could see all the goings ons and stuck in my headphones. Service […]

Chow House 181 Bleecker St

Dumplings – ok noodles had a nice flavor Broccoli was incredibly spicy location and cleanliness both good would try again if I were in the neighborhood, craving dumplings and had the 35 minutes. Stopped in on the way to the Rattle Theatre. It was fine, nothing else to say.

Monsoon Season

Another hit at a small, little heard of theatre in the West Village. Though the NY Times wrote a pretty scathing review I enjoyed it, tremendously. As described in time out “All for One Theater, usually devoted to solo works, expands into two-hander territory with this dark romantic thriller-comedy by Lizzie Vieh. Therese Plaehn and Richard Thieriot play a […]

OOTOYA, Great Japanese

So the girls are in town for Thanksgiving and we all wanted to see the Christmas market, the tree and the ice skaters at Bryant Park so it was only natural to google ‘best Japanese lunch’. After a few discussions it was settled we would try Ootoya. We arrived to a wait of a half […]

Le Parisien

A small French cafe on 33rd street near the Trader Joe’s and amc kips bay The new New York routine is walk down here on Tuesday for an early movie and lunch So we will see how the croque is Really delicious. Salad bright and mild. Fries salty and crisp. Croque sweet and cheesy on […]

Dashed into The Frick

I just love this house and the museum is so manageable if you want a half an hour of lovely, come in and look around. Today there are two different exhibitions I popped into one, Eduard de Wall was not so interesting on first view. But the Frick does a fabulous job by providing a […]

LE GRAINNE CAFE

On 9th Ave at about 20th Street. We got a croque madame and home fries. It was not very good at all. The room was charming.

Red Peony Chinese

Another Chinese delivery from Grubhub Pork Steamed Soup Buns.$9.95, Dry Sauteed String Beans $18.95, Mai Fun Beef, Crispy Pork Chops with Peppery Salt Red Peony (Formerly Joe’s Shanghai) – how could I not try it… Well, if I had known how expensive and not good it was I could have resisted. The soup dumplings were […]