Yeast, Butter, Cranberries and Cinnamon … what a treat!
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If you ask my Italian friend Carolyn what her ultimate soul food in New York City is, her answer will always be Serafina. Even though it was still slightly chilly outside, we decided to brave the cold, because who knows whether spring is here to stay in NYC… Serafina has several locations throughout the city, but their Meatpacking one in a quiet side street is definitely my favorite.
Chelsea Market is just plain cool. It's an inside area filled with an incredibly vast selection of restaurants, food stalls and stores. Besides an array of food ranging from pasta to Vietnamese, over oysters to crepes and doughnuts, including even a Sarabeth's bakery, cakes modeled after characters from "Despicable Me", clothes and cooking supplies.
Breads Bakery is pretty well known in Greenwich Village and the Union Square area and most certainly well worth a repeated visit. Whatever you do, don't leave this place without taking some cheese sticks with you for later! The pastries are impeccable and they even had a stand at the Armory Show this year.
One of the things I dislike about eating at Umami is that they have the calorie count written on next to everything on the menu, but I tend to just completely ignore it and munch away at their perfectly delicious burgers. They don't take reservations, so I always put down my name and then take a walk around west village and return to the restaurant when they text me that my table is ready.
Thursday night I went to dinner with my friends Emma and Luca. We were craving carbs, so we opted for some solid Italian food at Eataly.
It's a concept store, where you can simulataneously do grocery shopping and eat at the variety of restaurants they have. They divide the restaurants by type of food, so you can have appetizers at "La Piazza", or the "Rotisserie", fish at "Il Pesce" or meat at "Manzo". There are endless options. The wait can be a bit long, so we put our names down for a table at "Pizza e Pasta" and went to have antipasti while we waited.
Isn't this little guy just too cute? I get it, I definitely want some of that bread too!
We had buffalo mozarella and a selection of prosciutto, ham, salami and cheese with a whole lot of bread and olive oil.
By the time we finished our antipasti our table for pizza and pasta was ready. I took my obligatory pasta head shot and we headed over to our table. We shared pizza with fresh buffallo mozzarella and gnochi in truffle butter.
To end our meal we went to the sweets section and had hot chocolate and salted caramel and raspberry gelato as we walked home.
