The city that never sleeps, but always eats!!!

I have had that song going through my mind for the last week and a bit. Last wednesday Mr. C and I went to the city that never sleeps, New York, New York.

And it was amazing.

After what was a fairly horrid flight and airplane experience, we arrived in the city at about 8pm US time. We settled into the hotel (http://www.marrakechhotelnyc.com/) and went for food.

We settled on a little mexican place called Mama Mexico for two reasons. The first was because it was right beside the hotel. The other was because they had a mariachi band! A real life mariachi band!!!!

I also discovered that their guac was the best I had ever had! And they made it at the table. A little senor, with a huge tray, with lots of avocodos, cilantro, garlic and choppend onions and tomoatoes. All I can say is I would have eaten there every day given the chance.



Thursday started very early as I was on Irish time and was in bits!!!! Then we headed off for a wander and found ourselves at Katz's Deli at around Lunch time. Covenient eh??? This is where that scene in When Harry Met Sally was filmed. We felt the need to have a Pastrami Sandwich that was about 6 inches thick, which was amazing.http://www.flickr.com/photos/orlak/3101202482/in/photostream/
It was quickly followed by a corned beef sambo! Which was also pretty awesome!



Come dinner time we settled on a fairly small but equally amazing restaurant called Sura Thai Kitchen, which was also by the hotel. Tiny but amazing. And, for the love of god, only $52. Which is about €37.50. For 2 starters, mains and 2 beers!



Anyway, the shining star of the entire trip (apart from spending time with my lovely bloke) was the experience on Saturday night. Mr C and I, and his cousin and wife ate in the amazing Babbo in Greenwich Village. Mario Batali is a genius and if I met him I am not sure that I would shake his hand or kiss him!!!!

Amazing food and wine, the highlight of which was the Fennel Dusted Sweetbreads for my Secondi. I never in my life thought that I would eat sweetbreads but, they are one of the signature dishes.

It took me 2 hours of pressing the redial button on my phone to get a reservation and you can only call a month in advance to the calendar date, but it was so so worth it! (http://www.babbonyc.com/)



Some of the pictures of the trip are at www.flickr.com/orlak Check them out and let me know what you think,



Orls
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