New York, New York
I spent about a week in New York towards the end of September. I’ll write about the trip in more detail eventually. For now, here’s a list of what I ate, drank and saw.
Food
- Egg (brunch)
- Five Leaves (more brunch)
- Brooklyn Label (brunch again)
- Ess-a-Bagel (best in NYC, said a local friend)
- Artichoke (vegetarian pizza)
- Shake Shack (NYC fast-food burger chain)
- Katz’s Delicatessen (smoked meat; the Schwartz’s of NYC)
- Caracas Arepas
- Ippudo (ramen + pork buns)
- Momofuku (even better ramen + pork buns)
- Milk (standalone desert branch of Momofuku; cereal milk ice cream)
- Crif Dogs (fancy, weird, wonderful hotdogs)
- Fette Sau (brilliant, amazing BBQ)
- Grassroots Tavern (lower Manhattan dive bar)
- 12th Street Alehouse (another dive)
Coffee
- Gimme! Coffee
- Sweetleaf Williamsburg
- Variety
Places
- Highline
- Fifth Avenue + Grand Central Apple Stores
- Central Park
- Intrepid Air and Space Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- American Museum of Natural History
- Sleep No More (theatre)
- Upright Citizens Brigade (improv)
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Williamsburg Bridge
- Brooklyn Flea (weekend market)
- More parks than I can remember
