NYC Tastes

So we had a fantastic, and I mean really fantastic, culinary weekend of eating with my parents in town. Unfortunately Mr. T was uploading some things onto my iPhone and somehow erased all my food pictures!!! So I'll just give a couple brief highlights from the trip. I have actually been to all of these places before except for Babbo so it was nice to take my parents to places I love. Thursday night- scored a last minute reservation at the Little Owl. Couldn't believe my luck. Of course we ordered the pork chop and gravy meatball sliders which were a hit. But my favorite of the night was the Halibut with corn and English peas. It was one of the best fish dishes I have ever had. The fish was super moist with a crackly skin on top which was heavenly alongside peas and their puree. It tasted like spring. Friday lunch at the Spotted Pig. Dad loved the burger (hated the shoestrings though which my mother and I happily ate instead). Mom liked her grilled cheese which was rich and thic...

So we had our wedding present dinner for our favorite couple at Cru this past Friday. The night itself didn't start out exactly perfect. I woke up on Friday morning with a horrible sore throat and cough. Luckily I was able to leave work a little early and come home and take a 2 hour nap before dinner which made me feel about 20 times better. We decided to meet at Olives for drinks to start. Mr Trekker and I arrived to see the crowd was about 3 people deep at the bar. The same was to be said for Candela's bar so we decided to go to the Belmont Lounge as it was right on the same block. When the other couple arrived they informed us that they had to wait a minute to come in because someone was pissing right outside the entrance. That's a lovely start to a special evening I thought! After a drink there we got a cab over to Cru . We got there right at 8:30 and only had to wait about 2 minutes to be seated. First of all, the space was just beautiful. I just loved how clean and...