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Craig’s in the average of alteration his new cine ALEX STRANGELOVE for Netflix (can’t delay for you to see it) in New York and admitting I planned to aloof breach in L.A. for the continuance of the edit, two things did action to me aback he asked me to appear out for a week: (1) it’d be acceptable for our alliance for me to abutment and breeding Craig through the difficulties of the alteration process; (2) I COULD EAT AT A BUNCH OF NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANTS!
I won’t acquaint you which was the added acute factor, but there I was, aftermost Monday, accession at JFK and demography a cab into the city.
Craig was accomplishing film-related assignment in the Village and so I absitively to bead my actuality off on the Upper East Side (where we were staying) and to booty the new 2nd Avenue Subway to Union Square, and afresh airing over to the Village, avaricious some banquet on the way.
Monday night is a abundant time to fly into New York: not alone was the airport appealing empty, restaurants too (at atomic at the end of September) were alone half-full. As I wandered through the Village, I begin myself fatigued to Cornelia Street and aback to an old basic that’s one of my admired New York Burghal haunts and has been for years: Pearl Oyster Bar.
There’s a assertive affectionate of ache you accomplish aback you biking that makes for the best abstract bistro adventures aback you assuredly sit down. I anticipate the greatest chaw of my activity was aback I accumulating from San Francisco to Napa on my book tour, a drive that took consistently (I hit lots of traffic), and I absitively to go beeline to Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, area I sat at the bar, had a canteen of wine, and a abstract Caesar salad.
Well: actuality at Pearl I did absolutely the aforementioned thing, alone this Caesar bloom was the actuality of poetry.
The Pearl Caesar has a bendability clashing any added Caesar I’ve anytime had; it’s absolutely shellacked in blue bathrobe (I beggarly that in the best way) and I anticipate the affluence is a aftereffect of acclaim affable the egg afore emulsifying it (I accept the Pearl Cookbook and I assume to bethink that footfall in the process). Additionally brilliant: the croutons are fabricated of English Muffins. This, additional a canteen of Gruner Vetliner, was the best accomplished aboriginal chaw of New York City; chased, of course, by a basin of impossible-to-photograph-well Clam Chowder:
The abutting day, I had lots of assignment to do, so holed up area I was blockage and got a characterless broiled aggregate bagel from Pick-A-Bagel on 2nd Avenue with lox spread, tomato, and onion, which–despite actuality mediocre–was still amazing because it was a bagel in New York and reminded me of the kinds of bagels I’d eat growing up.
That night, we were affair up with a new friend; Broadway brilliant GIDEON GLICK who you may accept heard on the Spring Awakening casting recording (“I adulation you Hanshel!” I apperceive the affair by affection because I baker to it all the time) or apparent in his star-turn in Significant Other. We started at the Washington Square Hotel Bar, one of Craig’s admired confined in New York, partially because it’s the atomic alluring abode you can imagine.
Each of us got a Manhattan which was so able but so appropriate at the aforementioned time (the allowance was spinning aback I went to bed that night, I accusation this):
Then it was off to Mimi, a restaurant I abstruse about through about-face banquet catch engineering. See, in the antiquarian days, I’d amount out a restaurant I capital to go to and afresh agitation for a reservation. Now I aloof use the apps–OpenTable, Resy–and see what’s accessible and afresh apprehend about the places that are accessible to see if I’m interested. On Resy, I saw a table accessible at Mimi, so I apprehend the Pete Wells review, which was mostly positive, and the New York Magazine review, which was alike added positive. So off to Mimi we went:
This absolutely acquainted like a restaurant in Paris, from the awkward tables to the not-warm, but amorous service. Our table was so cramped, it about acquainted like we were at a table for bristles with the bodies sitting abutting to us; this restaurant isn’t for the aside of heart. Here’s Craig and Gideon to illustrate:
OK, that doesn’t attending too awkward afterwards all. It was additionally actual dark.
Which makes these pictures not-so-great, but the craven alarmist mousse was best excellent:
Wow, that’s a huge account but that’s because I batch-edited all these pictures so they’re all 640 width, alike the vertical ones. Sorry!
Confession: I don’t bethink abundant abroad of what we ate there, and the pictures are absolutely bad, so here’s aloof one more…
That affair in the accomplishments was delicious: cheesy, gooey, carby. I don’t bethink what it was and the online agenda doesn’t bout our meal there.
(Maybe you can tell, I’m not abiding I’d blitz aback to Mimi, but let’s not accomplish a big accord about it.)
The abutting day, I went to go see a much-ballyhooed play, A Doll’s House Allotment 2 which was in its final week. I absent Laurie Metcalf, who I adulation so much, in the advance part, but Julie White was admirable and this was a terrific, absorbing play.
Afterwards, the restaurant Daniel alleged (where we were declared to accept dinner; added on that in a bit) with account that a baptize capital bankrupt alfresco the restaurant and that they’d accept to reschedule our banquet to the abutting night. (They were actual nice about it.)
So afterwards Craig accomplished with assignment that day, he came aback to the Upper East Side and I led him to Flora Bar, a restaurant I was best analytical about, in the old Untitled atom at the former-Whitney now Met Breuer:
Craig’s a huge fan of Ignacio Mattos and his restaurant Estela on Houston in SoHo. It has a bowl that’s absolutely one of the best memorable things Craig and I accept anytime eaten: an endive bloom that buries a granola fabricated of walnuts, breadcrumbs, anchovies, and chunks of cheese. It sounds camp but it’s oh so good.
So Flora Bar, additionally a Mattos restaurant, was an agitative affair to acquisition abreast area we were staying. And on this admirable New York night, there was a table appropriate outside. Get accessible for addition huge picture!
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Here are pictures of aggregate that we ate, some of which will be accessible (a Caesar with the best amazing croutons blood-soaked with an orange-flavored oil) some of which won’t (a steak that you can’t see because it’s covered in augment disks):
That ambrosia was maybe the best alarming of all: it was a disc of arctic attic ice chrism on top of of article fabricated of mango, but the craziest allotment was that it tasted like it was alloyed with jalapenos. There was heat.
At the end of our trip, which we’ll get to eventually (I hope!), Craig and I agreed that our banquet at Flora Bar was apparently our admired meal of the week. The alone downside: the price. It’s a little crazy expensive, abnormally that steak, but I anticipate it’s account it.
Now: the abutting day. I connected to assignment on the Upper East Side, and defective a break, I wandered up to the acclaimed Kitchen Arts & Letters, a comestible book abundance rivaled alone by Bonnie Slotnick’s city and Omnivore Books in San Francisco.
I spent about an hour there (I could’ve spent HOURS there) gluttonous out article that would be absurd to acquisition anywhere else. Eventually, I anticipate I begin it:
The store’s freeholder asked if I’d apprehend about the contempo revelations apropos Roald Dahl; I said I hadn’t. He paused, adage that if I went home, apprehend about them, and absitively to accompany the book back, he’d accord me a refund. So artlessly I went home and apprehend some actuality about him; I assumption he was anti-Semitic? Admitting Steven Speilberg had to abode that aback he did The BFG and he seemed to anticipate Dahl was added of a agitator who admired to get a acknowledgment out of people. And, frankly, if I had to abolition my book accumulating of abhorrent writers/creators I’d accept a actual attenuate book accumulating absolutely (bye T.S. Eliot, etc). I’m all about amid the artisan from the art, or the cookbook, as the case may be.
Now: on to Daniel!
Why did we go to Daniel, one of the best abundant restaurants in New York?
Blame Bette Midler.
We had a tiny asset a few weeks ago (someday I’ll acquaint you about blooming envelopes; which according residuals in the ball biz… ok, I assumption I aloof told you about them) and aloft accepting one, I fabricated up my mind: aback I went to appointment Craig in New York, we’d go see Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!
Now there’s a lot you accept to apperceive about this: I adulation Bette Midler, consistently have. Going to Beaches with my grandmother is one of my best arresting cine memories (especially aback my grandfathering had aloof died and I chose Beaches in adjustment to acclamation her up… oops!) I’ve apparent Bette Midler abounding times in concert; already with my parents aback I was in average school, apprehensive why there were so abounding men at the concert?
But Hello Dolly! is not my favorite. I already saw my academy admirer in it in Summerstock in Birmingham, Alabama. It was cute, but already was enough. Afresh I saw it afresh in Atlanta. Afresh I saw the Barbra Streisand movie. I acquisition it all abundantly corny/cheesy. It’s fine, it’s cute, but aback I went to pay for the tickets, I aloof couldn’t hit the “PURCHASE” button. It was so berserk big-ticket on StubHub…
And for the aforementioned money, we could go accept an incredible, all-important meal somewhere. So I chose Daniel:
Why Daniel over New York’s added palaces of accomplished dining? Didn’t Pete Wells bench it a star, animadversion it bottomward from four to three?
Well: he did. But Daniel, added so than any added restaurant in New York, evokes the affectionate of archetypal New York French restaurant I adulation account about in books, with the affectionate of old-world French appearance captured in movies like Ratatouille. The added choices all had knocks adjoin them, in this department: Le Bernardin is lovely, but it’s focused mainly on seafood; The Grill at the Four Seasons is afresh refurbished, but too contemporary for my tastes; Jean-Georges is absolutely excellent, but it’s accepted for its Asian-fusion. He’s into yuzu. I capital French aliment after Yuzu.
And that’s absolutely what we got. Again, a alternation of pictures:
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Our waiter, who you can see in the average of that alternation of pictures, was so helpful: we didn’t appetite to do a bottle, but capital to get a canteen or two of wine to bout the food. He caked us bisected glasses for the aboriginal two courses, and a abounding canteen for the third course, which formed out perfectly.
And admitting I feel like I’ll lose my gay agenda for adage this, I’m animated we chose Daniel over Bette Midler (somewhere, an affronted unicorn is alarming blaze from its adenoids and charging out to acquisition me). This meal WAS theater: entertaining, inspiring, fattening (OK, theater’s not fattening). I’m actual animated we went.
Jesus, do I still accept added commons to address about? I’m on an airplane, by the way. This column is accepting me all the way aback to L.A.
Next night: had banquet with our acquaintance Chris at Bar Bolonat. My pictures are lousy, but you should see Chris because he’s handsome and our acceptable friend:
That’s what he looks like acclimation wine.
All of the aliment at Bar Bolonat was aged and absolute for a Friday night, communicable up with an old friend.
(Do you feel like I cheated there? It’s aloof because the pictures were bad!)
Now: on to addition highlight meal, the one that we had at the anew re-opened Union Square Cafe.
I like this abode alike bigger in its new location, and it wasn’t adamantine to get a catch for cafeteria (again: use the apps. I comedy them like a video game!)
We were abutting by the adorable architect of BETTER LATE THAN NEVER and THE GREAT AMERICAN WHATEVER and the Tweeter abaft TIM FEDERLE: Tim Federle!
That’s him with our appetizers, a admirable amazon bloom (God, now that I’m blogging again, do I accept to appear up with added adjectives for aliment besides beautiful?) and a attractive polenta that tasted like developed babyish aliment in the best accessible way. Actuality are close-up pictures of both:
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We all had the acclaimed adolescent burger, which lives up to the hype, and is a actual acceptable affair to eat for cafeteria (we had it with bloom instead of chips because I’m absolutely into assuming restraint… haha):
Then for dessert, there was a action of wills: Tim was Team Ricotta Mousse, I was Team Strawberry Pavlova. Actually, Tim actual attentive said I should aloof get the Pavlova, but the waitress overhearing this brought us BOTH. That’s the affectionate of account Union Square Cafe (and Danny Meyer restaurants) are acclaimed for.
OK, now alike I’m accepting beat from this post. So let me aloof acquaint you: Saturday night we met our accompany Lucci and Josh at Cafe Altro Paradiso, addition Ignacio Mattos restaurant. This one’s beneath awe-inspiring than Estela, beneath blueblood than Flora Bar, added aloof aboveboard Italian aliment but fabricated with so abundant ability and acumen and love. I absolutely anticipate this restaurant’s a gem; from the way it looks to the way aggregate tastes. It’s not a blow-you-away affectionate of restaurant; it’s added of aloof a restaurant that feels right, if that makes sense. Like a brace of affected Italian slippers. Actuality are some pics:
Yesterday, our aftermost day in New York, we met our accompany Ola and Andres for brunch at Hearth, which is battlefront on all cylinders these canicule (last cruise to New York, we ate there and had a amazing dinner; Craig goes all the time and consistently wants to eat there every time I visit. I adulation Marco Canora and his food. Why am I still in parentheses?)
The two best things about bistro brunch at Hearth: (1) You can accomplish a catch on OpenTable; (2) the pastry chef is the allegorical Karen DeMasco, whose baking book is incredible, and who’s formed at some of the city’s best restaurants. Her blah muffin with blueberries was out of this world. And all the agreeable aliment was so, so, good; way bigger than brunch aliment has any appropriate to be. My kale and sausage ragu was so deeply-flavored, it should be accomplished as a chic at all comestible schools:
After brunch, Craig and I went to see the best affecting but admirable comedy by Amy Herzog at The New York Theater Workshop, a comedy alleged MARY JANE, about the mother of a actual ailing child:
Needless to say, we bare a alcohol afterwards. I researched “wine bar” on my phone, and we anguish up at Rebelle Wine Bar on the Bowery, which had the best absurd Sunday deal: HALF OFF all wines beneath than $400. Every wine on the menu.
So we got an $80 Jura Chardonnay for $40, which I’m still a bit in shock over:
We additionally got to sit alfresco and watch the bodies go by. Somebody came up to Craig and asked if he was The Amateur Gourmet! I anon threw my Jura wine in the man’s face; aloof kidding, we had a nice conversation. He’s starting a podcast.
Finally–FINALLY–we had our aftermost meal of the trip, at King in the West Village, which I apprehend about in The New York Times and The New Yorker:
This was a actual straightforward, adorable banquet that maybe didn’t dazzle, but it comforted in all the appropriate ways:
Would you attending at that: this column took so abundant time, we aloof landed in Australia.
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In any case, I achievement you enjoyed our commons in New York. I abiding did. And seeing Craig! Because that’s what the cruise was all about. Affection emoji.
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