With TD5 making a special trip to NYC just for the August 3rd Arctic Monkeys concert, I had a bit of a plan.
It involved spending time and a fairly relaxed few days with him.
But then, an unexpected bit of luck befell me on Thursday afternoon.
Suddenly, my week seemed quite busy.
TD5 had no idea what was waiting for him and really, nor did I honestly.
After getting in way late (3 AM Friday morning to NYC), he decided to stay at a hotel in Midtown.
I met him that morning at 11 or so and we hustled off to Adventure 1 of Day 1.
Lunch at Brasserie 8 1/2 as part of Restaurant Week.
OMG.
I was very impressed by them, and a little bit thrown by the fact that I was bouncing in there with a t-shirt and a busted up pair of pants.
The space for that restaurant was beautiful and classy.
The food was even better.
My pictures do not do the eats justice because for whatever reason, the food did not want to be photographed. Additionally, I had little patience due to hunger and did not really want to take pics in the fancy schmancy restaurant.
I did not even get pictures of TD5's food save his dessert - the blood orange cake, H1 wanted him to get. She loves Blood Oranges. Scary.
X, I thought of you. For my starter I had the belly pork slider. Beetchie, I also thought of you because for some reason it was topped with a quail egg.
That slider alone was worth trekking to 57th for.
Look at the porky goodness!
TD5 had the mulligatawny soup (and that too came with a suspect egg floating in it).
Next up, I had the lobster salad. Two pieces of lobster topped on a pea greens, diced mango and diced avocado. The greens I could have done without because they were a bitter type bleck I did not like, but everything else was good together even the strange gelatinous mango puree (?) type thing at the bottom.
TD5 had a pork with kimchee and daikon dish which was plentiful and okay.
For dessert, I had a banana bread pudding. It was okay and thankfully TD5 did not have an allergic reaction to the walnuts that were in it. Of course, I let him taste it and as he was putting it in his mouth I wondered if he had allergies to nuts. It turns out he did. Heh. Oops on my part there but it all turned out okay anyway.
Here's TD5's Blood Orange Cake with things...?
Next, it was off to Liberty State Park in ugh, NJ for Adventure 2 on Day 1.
Currently listening to: "Same Old Thing" by The Streets.
