NYC Tastes

This weekend was filled with lots of good fun food and drinks so I thought I would write a review. Friday a bunch of us met up at Zum Schneider around 5:30 and snagged a table. I got my usual potato pancakes. They are always so good! Honestly I think they are the best in the city- really crispy. And the salad that it comes with has a really tasty dressing. Unfortunately we enjoyed our time there a little too much with the big German beers and woke up on Saturday not feeling too good. We basically rested most of the day but decided we would go out for a good dinner. Mr Trekker was still recovering so he wanted only a quiet and relaxed place. I was craving a good burger and have heard that Lure Fish Bar's was good so we decided to go there. We showed up at 6:00 (we were in Florida last week and are still on that early dinner time it seems). The place only had two other groups eating so it was basically empty which was exactly what we were looking for being still a little beat up fro...

My parents came to visit for the weekend, which is always the best excuse to eat out for every meal of the day! Thursday night we went to Alta and had a fantastic meal. We showed up right around 8:00 with no reservation and were seated immediately right near the fireplace on the first floor. We ordered too many things to write about but I'll give you the favorites of the table. Spinach salad with dried cherries was great- those 2 flavors go together so well together. Goat cheese w/ honey, confit of pork tenderloin, lamb meatballs and Moroccan spiced cashews (so good we ordered 2) were all fantastic. The 2 potato dishes, one with paprika and one with trout creme fraiche I wouldn't order again. Just not very tasty. Overall though a great meal. My only complaint was the pacing of the dishes. We got about 5 dishes at once literally 2 minutes after we had ordered. They kept coming in this sort of fashion. There was barely enough room on the table for them all. I wish they would ma...

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...