Last week, I filmed a great little segment with the executive chef at Oceana, Ben Pollinger. Before we filmed the segment, the chef sent in some amazing treats for me to try and also had the pastry chef, Jansen Chan, send over some shaved ice. The shaved ice had the same texture as the watermelon […]
Last Sunday, my friend Julia and I spent the day together having brunch, shopping, and rock climbing. Julia and I know each other from kindergarten and have kept in touch even though my family left Pittsburgh in middle school. We used to have play dates when we were kids, always competed for the position of […]
We invited my mom to New York to celebrate her birthday in New York and David and I decided to take her to Daniel for dinner. I was really excited because Daniel is on my list of restaurants of Michelin restaurants I’m going to this year AND I’ve wanted to dine at Daniel since I […]
Now that the year is practically over (how did August creep up on me like that?) it’s time to assess the damage on my goal of dining at every Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. Luckily, I’ve been to a bunch of them previous to this year (and I decided I wasn’t going to repeat a […]
Did you know that you can take a ferry from Manhattan’s Pier 11 to Brooklyn’s Ikea? My friend Annie had to buy some picture frames and we decided to make a night of it by taking the ferry across the East River to the huge Swedish megastore. I’ve only been to Ikea a handful of […]
