i heart new york week 2009 / the good food trip

i feel as if our trip can be chronicled by the food we ate because [almost] every meal was so dang memorable aka yummy. i am going to outline our trip, not so much because i think everyone needs to know what we did but i don't want to forget. you can ignore the details if you want but these are all things that brought joy to my life so i want them to go down in history. the history of i heart new york week 2009.


day one: began with the plane ride where the little kid behind you is kicking your seat and the parents don't even care. i guess everyone has to experience this once in their life time. this was followed by the train ride into manhattan where i couldn't wipe the excited grin off my face. then the arrival to our hotel. a quaint [and when i say quaint i mean small] hampton inn. chipotle, yum, yum. a much needed nap. Rare with friends. Heath, Tessa, Michael, Kristin & Julie joined us for dinner where we ate good fries and burgers [in my case a pesto chicken burger - dang it was good]. then one of my favorite bars in manhattan...the peculiar pub. they have every type of cider you can imagine (which in our case is perfect considering we don't like beer). we caught up and played songs on the juke box. and got tired despite our nap [i guess traveling takes it out of ya.]



day two: bad continental breakfast. walk through soho and lunch with katie at grey dog where cool art: order up by Martha Gardikas hung on the walls (picture the art like 50 times it normal size). then we lugged our luggage to brooklyn and later met up with everyone at tortilla flats (one of the things i was looking forward to the most). As usual we had a grand ole time at tortilla flats. drank margaritas, played bingo and were our silly selves. tortilla flats was followed by union pool. (not really so much a pool as a cool bar :) where i talked so much to 4 of the lovely girls in my life so much that i couldn't help but find myself slightly annoyed after [because of all my talking].










day three: was meant to be a day of museums and central park. it was partly full of museums as we went to them but never through them. first we visited the guggenheim. inside (we didn't walk the mueseum, i was more interested in the architecture.) and out. we thought we were going to tour the met but i thought that seth had never been and he thought the same about me and when we got there we realized that we had both been there so we toured the gift shop instead. this was followed by a bad lunch in central park (one of those little stands where you just ordered the wrong thing because...well, they must be good at something if they are still in business right?). and the central park zoo - unplanned and slightly random but definitely a hightlight of the trip. then we visited fao schwartz where we got to see Harry Potter and his crew, anthropolgie where they never fail to amaze you with their displays and 30 rock. the day ended perfectly, good company, good soup/chili and good tv (lost! duh!). not mention exhaustion. we weren't used to walking around anymore and when i fell asleep that night, i fell hard.






























day four: was another day of museums. one imparticular - the natural history museum. first stop was fred flare in fort green. we wanted to see the your message here board that a favorite blog of ours is responsible for. to our lack of planning the store wasn't even open so all we were able to walk away with (or shall i say 'walk by') was a photo. after we met heath & tessa at the shake shack for great burgers and fries and headed into the massive castle that calls itself a museum. we saw multitudes of cool, mind blowing things. crazy animals, large animals, buffalos, moose, life size giant squid and elephant seals (!), blue whales and dolphins, seahorses and dinos. lots of dinos. seth bought dry iced frozen ice cream sandwiches (which proved to be as good as one would guess). we headed to the walkers for a rest and then back out for an art opening with jersey mike. it was a photography opening where pictures hung in the this amazing space from all over the world spanning back to well...a long time ago. it was a very new yorker experience. then we walked in the pouring rain to frankie's, one of the best italian restaurants ever. our menu included some sort of parmesean and cheddar hybrid cheese, wine, meatballs, sweet potato & squash ravioli, gnocchi and then some. after our tummy's were happy we went to the backroom, a neat little speakeasy where drinks are served in coffee cups and saucers and beer in brown paper bags. the walkers met up with us there and we had a wonderful time tossing back the coffee (thats code for alcohol wink).
















this was the first four days of our amazing good food trip. i will post more later. possibly just edit this one to be longer. lovelovelove the i heart new york trip 2009. i wish i could live it every week.