Michelin Starred Restaurants

Now that the year is practically over (how did August creep up on me like that?) it’s time to assess the damage on my goal of dining at every Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. Luckily, I’ve been to a bunch of them previous to this year (and I decided I wasn’t going to repeat [...]

Weekend New York Diet

I’m always interested to read about people’s New York Diet on nymag.com and thought it would be fun to do a recap from my weekend’s festivities.
On Saturday, I started the morning with a quick breakfast of two eggs, whole wheat toast, and a healthy dose of Frank’s red hot sauce. I was introduced to [...]

Fairway Cafe

A couple of weekends ago, I found myself on the upper west side looking for something to eat. Originally, the plan was to get some cookies from Levain Bakery and then eat in the park, but afternoon rain put the kibosh on that plan. Instead, my friend and I ran into Fairway to [...]

Aida at the Metropolitan Opera House

On Friday, I was able to use my Christmas present from Lou – two tickets to the Metropolitan Opera! I casually mentioned that I wanted to see the opera sometime and he remembered during the holiday season because he surprised me with tickets to Aida. Before the opera, we met up and went [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I found myself on the Upper West Side this afternoon and decided to take advantage of this by going to Levain Bakery and Jacques Torres. I bought three cookies:

I could smell Levain’s cookies from 73rd (and so could everyone else because the line was ridiculous) and I ended up purchasing the chocolate chip walnut [...]


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