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June 30, 2009
We attended the Fancy Food Show in New York to shop for items for the store. It was a huge success and we are excited about the many great finds that we will be offering to our shoppers in the very near future!
We also had an opportunity to visit some restaurants while we are in town and want to share our experience with our fellow foodies the next time you are in NYC so you can enjoy some good food and not waste your time and money like we did on a few places.
Our first stop was Dos Caminos –
www.doscaminos.com – a rather edgy Mexican restaurant whose specialty is guacamole and it was some of the best we ever had. Try a prickly pear margarita as well – I had the passion fruit margarita and wish I had gone with their featured drink instead.The absolute best food on our trip was at Seasonal which is an Austrian restaurant on W 58th St – no tourists in this local neighborhood restaurant –
www.seasonalnyc.com. The food and service were impeccable – walleye pike and lamb entrees were fantastic. Every aspect of this dining experience was a delight.After attending some great seminars on food we were starving for a great lunch and were not disappointed at Petrosian Russian Restaurant with their Saturday Brunch. Caviar with Blini, Omelet with Caviar, Smoked Sturgeon Burger and a bottle of champagne definitely hit the spot.
We are big fans of Bobby Flay and had the pleasure of dining at one of his restaurants on a prior trip to NYC so we made a reservation at Bar Americain – what a sad disappointment this place turned out to be. We had to wait for our table even though we had a reservation and the spices and flavors that Bobby Flay stands for were lacking in all of our dishes. The food was bland and extremely overpriced and the service was lackluster as well. A total waste of time and money and we won’t be such big fans in the future.
The other disappointing dining adventure was our dinner at Blue Hill – made famous by the Obama’s date night there. It is located inside an old speakeasy in Greenwich Village and you would never notice it just walking by. It was a challenge to get a reservation and the best we could do was Monday evening at 9pm. The food was so overpriced and so underwhelming - $15 for an appetizer which was a single poached egg with some undercooked fava beans and $36 for an entrée which had 5 small pieces of tasteless pork sausage over some equally bland quinoa. Supposedly they grow everything for the restaurant on their farm and bring it in every day but if they are going to make it past the Obama hoopla they really need to ratchet up the flavor quite a bit.
Remember, Life Is Too Short to Eat Bad Food!!!!!!
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