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Financial District Blues
I'd be interested in your reaction to Water Street Gourmet. It's a standby for the neighborhood because it's always open, but man...I sum up the place by what I witnessed first-hand six years ago--the food guy working the deli line took a verbal order, reached down and adjusted the rubber floormat (gloveless), then stood up and moved without interruption to preparing a sandwich. And yet, if you gotta eat, you gotta eat.
Financial District Blues
Have to argue about Vintry. I go there regularly and compared to other restaurants in the area and at the price point, I think the food is quite good. You're not going to get truffles in "truffled cavatelli" at that price--but just because truffle oil doesn't have truffles in it doesn't mean that anything containing truffle oil can't be delicious. I realize that you're not necessarily saying that that's the case, but the truffled cavatelli in particular is, IMO, delicious. As are the short rib sliders and the lobster stuffed mushrooms. The tarte tatin is very good, and the charcuterie is also pretty good. I'd say Vintry (particularly after work) kicks the ass of anything else on Stone Street other than Adrienne's sausage and onion pizza (if you're able to get in to Adrienne's), including SmorgasChef, which I find laughable. Vintry, in addition to good wine and whisky, also has a kick-ass cocktail program--however, their weakness is beer. They've improved from a couple of years ago, but there aren't really any decent beer places on Stone Street. I'd advise avoiding Ulysses like the plague, unless you're dying to cruise for an ibanker one night stand. It has othing other than a pedestrian beer selection and rail liquors you can get anywhere, together with TGIF appetizers. I have nothing against Ulysses, given what it is, but it's not chowish by any means in my view.
Mexicue truck at Broad and Water on Thursdays. SHO Shaun Hergatt for the second best lunchtime prix fixe steal in Manhattan, and agreed on Fika for coffee--also for the swedish meatball platter or for really delicious/hearty soup and sandwich combos in the wintertime. Capital Grille is doing the closest approximation of a decent steakhouse in the area, and has a lovelier wine list than most. Also, strangely, the restaurant that opened up last summer in Fraunces Tavern (which used to be godawful) is straight up decent for lunch (think salads, sandwiches, shepherds pie, burgers, etc.).
Wowing visiting friends near Battery Park/ Wall St.
You're thinking of Battery Gardens. It used to be called An American Place. Battery Gardens' food is really terrible, even by Financial District standards. Gigino is not very good; Battery Gardens is only worth going to if you don't care about the food at all and want the view--and I'm writing as someone who has had to go for the view more than 10 times (from lunch to dinner to weddings). Gah. Please, no. I'd also skip Gigino. If you need a water view, go over to the restaurants by World Financial Center and North Cove. At least they're mediocre.
Dinner at Romera on Opening Night
And for a completely different take, I've had four dinners at SHO (non during restaurant week) and approximately 10 lunches. I have never had a bad meal, a mediocre meal or even an above average meal. Things have admittedly calmed down a bit on the "white glove" aspect from right after it opened--when they would be running over with stools for purses. However, IMO (and there are anumber of other threads where this is discussed), SHO has never disappointed--every dish has ranged for me from the very good to the outrageously good. Service attentive, beautiful space, and for what it is, one of the better fine dining restaurant values in town.
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SHO Shaun Hergatt
40 Broad St, New York, NY 10004
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanks--I'll take a look when it comes out. It's not so much what's on the menu that I'd be paying attention to (most places will do some version of traditional turkey dinner), but to move from Perilla, which I love, I'd need to be absolutely sure it would be for the sake of my husband being thrilled with the specific dark meat turkey aspect of the meal. I don't know that I can take that conversation one more time on top of the in-laws.
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Perilla
9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014
Guidance, please? Midtown West-ish, relaxed, comfortable, delicious...
Bumping this, and sorry I didn't reply earlier, especially as I see you're involved in the more current Ma Peche discussions. I wanted to let you know I loved it. I loved it so much I took another friend there for the same type of dinner a few weeks later. That friend and I now go once a month or so and recommend it to anyone willing to go to that area. Next month, old chow-ish friends of mine who left NYC a few years ago are coming for a visit. I'll be taking them there.
Given all the meals I've had there over the past nine months, I can't go into a ton of specifics, except to say that I've never had a bad dish. First impressions were that it was exactly the place I was looking for--flavorful, inventive food, with an exquisite amount of attention paid even to vegetable sides. Next, it was so calm, so relaxed, and the service so pleasant. Very interesting and reasonably priced wines by the glass.
In the months following, I have supplemented my approach. Now I go for relaxed meals that I absolutely want to stretch out with wonderful company and wonderful food. The problem had been choosing what to get when everything looked amazing. Now I don't choose. I tell them upfront that we want to order everything that looks good to us, and to just bring it out at whatever pace they like. They're always happy to oblige--not trying to oversell on this point--I'm well aware that their comfort at having me occupy a two top for four hours even on a Friday or Saturday night is not divorced from the number of dishes I am wont to order, but still. They're so lovely, the food is so good, it's like having a private chef come and cater the best girls' night in ever, just without the pajamas but with cereal milk and crack pie to take home. I've also become addicted to their Dark & Stormy.
Standouts from two Fridays ago: fried chicken salad, pork summer roll, coquillage, lamb corn dog, lamb large plate, corn side, pig's ear, shaved frozen cream cheese.
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Ma Peche
15 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
Thanksgiving Dinner
Do you happen to recall how the dark meat was (if anyone at your table had any)? I'm a devoted repeat Perilla customer for Thanksgiving (having posted about this before--Thanksgiving is a hallowed culinary thing for me), but the one problem we keep running into is that my husband, who only eats dark meat (he doesn't make himself a pest about it--if the restaurant doesn't do single-type orders, he's fine with getting both light and dark and then just eating what he wants), thinks theirs is insufficiently moist. At some point, I might just consider giving another place a try (places like EMP, etc., that I might choose to try just for myself are out of the question given who I eat with).
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Perilla
9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014
Unhappy thing I'd nearly forgotten to post re: Luscious Food (PS)
I've edited my post to clarify. But to clarify further, I think my issue with your response was that, IMO, the takeaway wasn't "we will all do things our own way," but rather that you ascribed the motivation for following up on nasty customer service to my being "really counting" on dessert. Which was not the point. Totally contrary to how you described what you would do, I would categorize your approach as cutting out the people who made the mistake entirely, which doesnt' give a good restaurant a chance to rectify a mistake in good faith and lets bad restaurants "who made the mistake" off the hook entirely. As I mentioned, I often don't bother--but by not bothering, I mean I actually just let it go entirely, most often because I don't want the restaurant to go to the trouble of sending out a separate delivery (most restaurants I order from directly in PS know me well as a regular orderer and would go straight to this option) or figuring out a way to get me a refund on something I paid cash for. With Seamless orders, the restaurant can sort out the billing refund quickly itself, or can really impress me by sending out the omitted item(s).
You're right. We will all do things our own way. Luscious Food sure does. Give 'em a try. And next time someone does a search on this board for Luscious, they will get to choose whether to take their chances on missing items, nasty service and/or self-help with Seamless or to order from somewhere else. If the searcher works at or manages Luscious, they will know that someone thinks their customer service is unacceptable, and can choose to treat their customers with respect or risk losing them. All hail the free market.
On a positive note--Da Nonna Rossa may not be gourmet eating, but they have the best customer service (both delivery and eating in) I've ever experienced at any restaurant in PS. One of these days I'll write a tl;dr ode to how wonderful they have been on a number of occasions.
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Luscious Food
59 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Da Nonna Rosa
140 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Unhappy thing I'd nearly forgotten to post re: Luscious Food (PS)
Can't win 'em all. If a poster has a complaint and doesn't address it with the restaurant itself, some posters will take them to task for not addressing the root of the problem. I guess I was, as you say, trying to let the people who made the mistake and the people who run the system fix the problem--e.g., by sorting out the billing between them. However, in order for that to happen, I needed to let them know there was a problem. This would have been a two minute fix if the guy hadn't been a jerk (you're supposed to call the restaurant first about a problem with the delivery--most will make it right, and it gives them the option of working with you about how to do so--lose the sale by giving you your money back or sending the paid-for item--or just saying "we'll give you a refund" straight out). You wouldn't have bothered--that's your choice. I don't react well to being bullied about a simple request (particularly since I'm not a Seamless orderer who leaves the default tip at $2.50--I had tipped 15% on the post-tax total for this order)--there's incompetence, which I don't post about, and nastiness, which I understand to be a fair topic to make note of on this board.
What is the best Indian in Park Slope?
Ok, can you help? My husband loves lamb saag. He had a meh experience with an order of it from Baluchis, so I took the opportunity to try to convert him to Kinara. He was actually revolted--apparently the quality of the lamb in the lamb saag (not that he expected gourmet moist succulence) was extremely poor to the point of inedibility, and now he refuses to order from there again (FYI--I thought it was good Indian food by PS standards). Any other recommendations in the neighborhood for a place that does a decent lamb saag or similar?
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Kinara
473 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Baluchi's
113-30 Queens Blvd, Queens, NY 11375
Unhappy thing I'd nearly forgotten to post re: Luscious Food (PS)
This happened a few weeks back, and I'd almost forgotten to post about it--I've been ordering more often from the more confined stable of restaurants that are available on Seamless in PS, just because the payment process is so much easier. Normally, Luscious Food isn't the kind of place I'd go out of my way to order from, but we were in the mood for sandwiches, and I'd heard some good things (A&S was closed at the time).
The food (that was actually delivered) was fine--my husband was not so crazy about whatever hot sub it was that he'd ordered, but my hero was ok. The problem was the service. We'd ordered a couple of the dessert items (and, given the way Seamless works, we paid for them in advance). When the order came, they were not included. Sometimes I don't bother to address stuff like this, but it was both dessert items, and I thought I should let them know and give them a chance to address the error--my base level expectation for something like this would be that the restaurant would *either* offer to send someone over with the missing items (I realize that this is not always the most practical option, particularly if the items missing don't strike the proprietor as material to the order) *or* to offer to refund the money (in this case, by calling Seamless and letting them know to take the charge off the order).
What I got was none of this. The guy on the phone when I called was an absolute jerk. No apology, not even a pro forma insincere one. Not even a "what would you like to do here"? What I got was him telling me "Ok, well, whatever. Go ahead and call Seamless and have them take the charge off." To which I responded that I wasn't sure why I should be calling Seamless and dealing with customer service at yet a second place when they should fix the mistake in some way. I wasn't asking for free anything. Either the food I'd ordered or that they arrange for a refund. I was polite but firm. Reply: "Well, I wasn't here, so I don't know what happened, and this really isn't my problem." At this point, based on his tone of voice and what I heard him saying offline to other workers, I deduced he was in some kind of managerial capacity. Finally, he said, "Fine, then. We'll send them over."
Half an hour goes by. No delivery. I then get a phone call from a different person at Luscious. Unlike the first guy, whose tone was rude from the moment he answered the phone, this guy was at least polite. He told me sorry for the inconvenience, but by the way, it turns out they didn't actually have either of the items I'd ordered (which could have explained why they weren't delivered in the first place--I've had this happen before with Seamless, and every time the restaurant calls me at the phone number they get on my order and let me know, then offer me a substitution or a refund). Nor had the rude guy checked when stating that none of it was his problem but finally agreeing to send them over. I said that was ok, but I'd appreciate if they could deal with contacting Seamless to arrange for the refund. This second guy agreed.
I have never received the refund. I don't care about the money. It's really paltry. I care about the fact that they didn't bother to let me know in the first place, treated me rudely when I called to seek redress, couldn't follow through on what they ultimately agreed to send, and then reneged on their commitment to fix it. Based on the food, I'd order from there again. Based on the total jerk who appeared to be running things, never ever ever again.
FYI, I ended up calling Seamless just on principle (feeling like a total cheapskate for making a big deal over a few dollars). They took care of it and were very nice.
Bare Burger (Park Slope)
Yikes. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, or just keep having different experiences (except for the buns--I love those buns). Eventually, the craze will die down, and those who really enjoy their style of burger will stick around, and others will migrate, and I'll be happy to deal with smaller crowds. I'm still having fantastic experiences with the burgers and veggie burgers, every time. I have come up with one critique, though--I wish the onion rings were a little smaller. The batter gets so crisp that, when they're that big, they get a little difficult to eat. Not up there with your concerns, though.
Funny thing that DH has noticed, given my earlier observation about Cheeburger Cheeburger--indeed, about a month ago they started aggressively pushing their hormone-free/organic ingredients. based on the timing, it indicated to us, per Occam, that BareBurger is in fact rolling right over them.
I lived in WT for nine years, and always heard about the great burger at Rhythm & Booze--just never made it there. It's never been conveniently situated for me--wrong end of WT at the time, and now closer places in PS. Any chance it has a pool table? If so, I'll have a relatively easy time convincing DH to make the mini-trek.
One last question on BareBurger--I am a BLT addict, but never bring myself to turn down a burger-type sandwich when eating from BareBurger, though I noticed they had a tempting BLT on the menu. Is that different from the sandwich you're describing with the chicken, or a separate sandwich that you don't think is very good? I can get a decent BLT at a few places in PS, but true BLT greatness has eluded me since the little loft restaurant that used to be in the Pavilion movie theatre closed down almost, what, eight years ago now? THAT was a BLT--gently toasted challah, bacon that was close to Neuske's-good and perfectly crisp, good quality/balanced amount of lettuce and tomato. I dream of a great BLT, if you can't tell...
Thanksgiving Dinner
Could you be more specific about what you consider to be "moderately priced"--e.g, what you would want to pay per person before tax, tip and any alcohol? Also, are you willing to travel outside of Times Square, and what time of day are you looking for (afternoon vs. evening)? Keep in mind that getting out of/around the Times Square area will be madness early in the day because of the Macy's parade. For me, this would make me want to get as far away from Times Square and the parade route area as possible for eating, but being "near the action" may be the point for you.
A substantial number of the restaurants in the city that are open for Thanksgiving do prix fixe menus for that day, so it will be pretty easy to know in advance whether something will come in at your price point (and if you don't get answers right away, you might want to bump this post in a few weeks--restaurants will start posting their Thanksgiving menus/pricing in early-mid October).
Bare Burger (Park Slope)
Korzo Haus? I haven't heard of it, and must go there immediately. Boiled spaetzle with butter, salt and pepper is like the food of the gods to me.
Bare Burger (Park Slope)
We haven't been to Corner Burger, but will put it on our list to try. We've been planning to go to Farm on Adderley for years (many of those years while we lived much closer, in Windsor Terrace), and when we finally make it over there, I'll let DH know that the burger comes recommended.
Bare Burger (Park Slope)
We're Bonnie's loyalists at my place, think Cheeburger Cheeburger and Flipsters are laughably mediocre and Five Guys are grease bomb gullet busters best invoked to treat serious hangovers. However, we couldn't disagree more about Bareburger, which has been delicious each of the four times we have tried it.
At this point, we've tried the veggie burgers, lamb burgers and beef burgers with various toppings. All three have been great. They tend to cook on the rarer side, so we order the lamb burgers medium well to get them medium, and the beef burgers medium to get them medium rare. The brioche buns were fresh and soft, the toppings fresh and flavorful, and no soggy fries whatsoever (not crispy like McDonalds-type fries, but solid and potatoey but not mealy--and fried in peanut oil). Excellent onion rings as well, and their long list of special sauces, reminiscent of all the frites bars, actually produce several sauces that can be differentiated as "spicy", "curry", "chipotle", etc., as titled.
My personal favorite is the #7 Avocado California Burger made with a veggie burger and suffused with the cilantro lime dressing. Admittedly, it falls apart eventually in the brioche, from the combination of the veggies and veggie burger and dressing, but I've developed a method of eating the thing in less than five minutes that avoids that problem. DH loves the #13 lamb burger (think "greek" themey), and he's normally a die-hard "I want nothing on my burger other than cheese and ketchup" kind of guy.
We ask them to smash a banana into our chocolate milkshakes, and the only thing that ever doesn't make it up the straw is a few banana chunks. Hopefully they'll start delivering at some point--we do a lot of pick-up at this point because it's always packed. Cheeburger Cheeburger must be gnashing their teeth right now.
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BareBurger
170 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
restaurant suggestions - party of 6 - at NON CELBRITY RESTAURANT?
Yeah, that's odd. There have been parties of six or more present every time I have been to Scarpetta (once a party of 20 sitting at tables they ran down the middle of the room).
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Scarpetta
355 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10014
Seeking Restaurant for Large Group Brunch in Brooklyn?
With a group that size, I think sette would be a squeeze, even if they take you. Also in the slope is Fornino, ex- Cucina/Tempo space. The second dining room (not the one with the bar) is huge. My husband and i have been in there for brunch while they're seating parties larger than 15. Food's good, too. I love the truffles and eggs on toast.
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Fornino
256 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Bananas Foster
Believe it or not, they have it at Tutta Pasta on 7th Ave. and Garfield in Park Slope. They call it Banana Flambe, but I watched them make it last week, and it's Bananas Foster. Wacky.
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Tutta Pasta
160 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Guidance, please? Midtown West-ish, relaxed, comfortable, delicious...
Really happy to have this perspective, and Ma Peche it is--tried for the Bar Room at the Modern, but not available at the time I wanted, while Ma Peche had very flexible availability. I may very well go with exactly what you ordered.
Guidance, please? Midtown West-ish, relaxed, comfortable, delicious...
Thanks to you both--I had thought about Ma Peche, but got a little scared off by the menu, which seemed pretty marine-focused, but if there's something for everyone... I hadn't considered the Bar Room, which is probably perfect--I'll check both for availability.
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Ma Peche
15 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
Guidance, please? Midtown West-ish, relaxed, comfortable, delicious...
This is an embarrassment of riches situation--I read the threads and know the reps, but I don't eat out much myself often in this neighborhood, and want to be able to chill out and enjoy the food and the company.
Scenario--old friend coming to town, staying midtown west/Hells Kitchen. He's not against leaving the neighborhood, but I'd probably limit it to west side above 20th St. to the lower Upper West. I'm looking for dinner on a Sunday night, really good food in a low key atmosphere (e.g., price no object, but I don't want to go somewhere where I'm going to be thinking about my posture)--the trick is I probably want to have a longer meal to maximize chatting time, if that's possible. Any cuisine is fine (Thai is a particular favorite of my friend's, but I know better for my target area) except for sushi and anything too shellfish-centric (allergy).
So for those of you really familiar with that area--where do you go when you just want to have a hazy lazy lovely evening with a friend?
Thank you...
Thanksgiving at Perilla
To update this, here's the rundown of my experience at Perilla this Thanksgiving. I've been to Perilla for every Thanksgiving since they started doing Thanksgiving, so that's four years now. Still love it. Notes from this year:
1. Our waiter was fantastic. He was bubbly and personable while not being overly familiar, answered a number of detailed questions, and went out of his way to help us find things that one of our party who has dietary restrictions could enjoy (down to checking ingredient labels on beverages). He engaged us throughout the meal about what we were enjoying more or less and why that might be, was extremely attentive and kept the pacing both prompt and leisurely.
Floor manager also stopped by to welcome us back--I'm by no means a regular; I go three or four times a year plus thanksgiving, but she remembered us from past years and came by to thank us for coming again.
They're also continuing to show good humor about Harold's "star factor" even several years on from Top Chef--a couple at a table next to us was new to the restaurant but asking excitedly if HaroldfromTopChef was in the kitchen, and the waitress engaged them in a goodhearted conversation about it.
2. Amount of food served: One major improvement they have made since previous years was to the "sides" policy--it used to be that a certain number of "sides" for the Thanksgiving prix fixe was alotted to a table based on the number of diners. For four people, it was two sides, for years (per previous posts by me and others in this thread). This always caused some acrimony with my party, as someone always ended up not getting the side they wanted. This year, everyone got to choose a side. For four people, that was four sides, and each one of those sides was plenty for three or four, meaning that everyone could have some of everything, like a proper Thanksgiving. There was a ton of food served. The selected entree was basically the protein with a few fluourishes, like purees, sauces, some veg, etc., then you would be adding scoopingfulls of stuffing, potato puree, yams and/or brussels sprouts from the sides. The protein sizes served to us were normal sized. Not "twee" in any way, not massive, but absolutely normal for a full entree size protein, which, when added to the sides, was a feast-worthy amount of food. This is all what came *after* the first course. Every one of the first courses served was a very substantial portion. There was so much food, in fact, that none of us could take more than a bite or two of dessert, and the desserts we were given were very good.
3. Food quality: There were some hits and some misses, though the misses were more like "changes we weren't sure we liked." Specifically, in the latter category, there have been serious changes made to the duck meatballs dish. This has been a signature dish for the restaurant since it opened, and is very familiar to any non-vegetarian who has eaten there multiple times. This dish is almost unrecognizable now. The formerly delicate orbs have just about tripled in size, and in level of spice. The waiter attributed this to a new prep chef who does things differently, but I hope truly that someone schools that prep chef in what this dish used to be. Was it bad? No. It was actually very tasty. However, it's not the dish we expected--the massive amounts of meat overwhelmed the ratio to pasta, broth and quail egg, and the heightened level of spice caught my husband off-guard. He doesn't like food that's more than mildly spicy, but had had the dish a number of times before with no issue. This time, he couldn't finish it. Luckily, I did.
My cod with burgundy truffles was lovely, and my husband thought his short ribs were delicious (this from a guy who orders short ribs frequently and doesn't think the ones at Craft are up to snuff). My in-laws were very happy with their turkey. My brown butter carrot soup was extroardinarily delicate while comforting. Ginger bread pudding, apple crumble and various sorbets kept us attempting to shove more food in, though we had to admit defeat.
The one actual disappointment for me was the stuffing. Stuffing is my favorite Thanksgiving staple, and I was thrilled that the way the ordering was set up, we could have two sides of the stuffing and I could monopolize one. It was decent, but yes, lacking in depth of flavor, and uneven in consistency between moist and somewhat dry. They could work on this for next year--I have great confidence they will.
Bottle of malbec was delicious and reasonably priced.
Upshot: I'll be back next year.
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Perilla
9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014
Current Korean in MSP?
Thanks, all. I should have been more specific--ambiance/price would be completely unimportant to me-- $1 ho pang or $20 kalbi jim, as long as it's good--I'm just looking to make my mother fall in love with Korean food as I have, and she's a 'hound at heart--the main problem is that I'm sort of limited to as close to Minneapolis proper as possible, as I'm in town with just my mother for a very short time (Sunday night and Monday lunch) after Easter (before which it's not an option for a variety of reasons). That said, not scared of Fridley or Eagan--I'll see if we can make it work--food above all...
p.s.--emphasis is on Korean because I've got no problem with introducing her to Vietnamese--she's been eating Vietnamese for about thirty years now--it's hard to find something new for her, but Korean's one of the few.
Current Korean in MSP?
Hi all,
'Hounder in town from NYC--am looking for a place to introduce my mom to Korean food this weekend in Minneapolis. I did a search, but couldn't find anything recent that isn't in Fridley or Eagan--any help on what's currently the best?
Very much appreciated.
British Grocery Store in Manhattan
I agree that this is probably double cream, which whipping cream doesn't quite sub for--you can take equal parts heavy whipping cream and clotted cream/devonshire cream (sold in specialty shops) and get a rough approximation of double cream. Heavy whipping cream is more like cream and a half by britfood standards...
Rouge Tomate? Thoughts?
I celebrated my wedding anniversary there a little over a month ago, and really loved it--quality of ingredients, lovely atmosphere, interesting touches and very little guilt afterwards.
Any new lunch places in the Financial District
That's Harry's Italian (from the Adrienne's guys) at Gold and Platt--perfectly good basic Italian restaurant with beyond reasonable prices for sit down food in the area.
Getting Married this Friday at City Hall (second question)
FYI, while I didn't myself get married at City Hall, I have been to weddings at City Hall. The approach people take runs the gamut. There are people there in jeans, and wedding parties dressed out the full nine yards. Sometimes it's just the two people, and some of the couples bring twenty people with them. It is crowded and joyous and a little bit funky and gritty, as there are some lines to wait in and forms to fill out, and when it's close to your turn they load you with ten other couples or so into a fancier private room to wait, then take you one couple at a time into the private wedding room. Plenty of room for family to join. It's actually nice and interesting in its own way--then you go out those double doors and take pictures and emerge into the day. It's not a bad way to go. Eleven Madison Park is fabulous afterwards for lunch.
P.S. go first thing as soon as they open; it will cut your wait time by a lot.
where can i get torani sugar-free syrups in the city? (ideally midtown west/upper west side)
I've also seen them at certain Starbucks locations.
