Whenever Erika comes to visit me, I always end up trying new restaurants and eating a ton. She visited over the winter and we checked out a couple of places, including Dirty French, the new-ish restaurant from the guys that brought New York Torrisi, Carbone, and ZZ Clam (some of my favorite restaurants in New […]
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I was strolling around the neighborhood and finally made my way to Breads Bakery, a local bakery known for their chocolate babka and other breads: Breads Bakery serves all types of flour-based treats; croissants, babka, many different loaves of bread, sandwiches, etc: I wasn’t in the market for actual bread […]
This week, I’ll cover all of our Napa Valley posts from our trip there over the summer. Ken and I had a very fun summer traveling (mostly back and forth from Chicago for weddings) and scheduled our anniversary trip to San Francisco/Napa. We spent our honeymoon in Bordeaux and Ken wanted to experience Napa for […]
I’m always looking for good places for lunch, especially since I live near my office now. I love Maison Kayser for their financiers (especially their raspberry financier, which is so dense and buttery), so I figured their lunch would be really good as well. They have a good deal for lunch, a pre-fixe where you […]
Last week, Erika was in town from California for work; since we hadn’t seen each other since the wedding, we decided to get together for dinner! Erika keeps tabs on all of the new restaurants in New York (and every where she goes!) so she listed Lafayette as one of the restaurants she wanted to […]
