• Last Books Read

    (T) This Perfect Day - Like a blast from the past, I felt like a 10 year old again reading this 1970 Ira Levin sci-fi. How life might be if everything around us was controlled to be efficient and healthy. Surprisingly, nakedness and sex plays a big role...
    ***

    (T) In Defense of Food - Eat food. Not so much. Mostly plants. An informative read on why Westerners spend so much time trying to eat right and almost always get it wrong.
    ****

    (T)Are You There Vodka? It's me, Chelsea - The ramblings of Chelsea Handler. Pretty funny. Good candy.
    ****

    (T) Namesake - I didn't enjoy this book. At all. I do now crave Indian food.
    *

  • Last Homemade Meals

    (K)Rice & Beans - Kelly makes great, classic Brazilian food

    (K) Striped Bass and Greens - With ginger and onions and includes microwaving the fish. It's damn good.

    (T) Split Pea Soup - A classic. So easy. So good.

    (T) Braised Pork Belly - A My first experience making pork belly. Super simple. So rich. So cheap. Why we pay so much for this in restaurants is beyond me.

  • Latest Restaurants



    Enoteca Barbone -Still awesome Italian/Babboo rip-off. I really like the owner, prices and pasta.
    ****

    Slurp - New Vietnamese restaurant in LES. We were the only ones there. Comparable to Compuchea, but better and cheaper
    **

    SavorNY - A FoodCandy article on the wall! Tapas from around the world. Pretty good
    ***

    Taisho Yakitori - Best in groups, Taisho is maybe my favorite restaurant in the city, currently.
    *****

    Clinton St Baking Company - An LES brunch favorite, the pancakes and crab cakes are some of the best we've ever had, but the line outside on a weekend make it something only worth it on the weekday.
    ***

    Chickie Pig's - Literally across the street, Chickie Pigs servers up thin, oval-shaped pizzas in a brick oven. Focus is on the crust and not the toppings.
    **

    Banjara - Finally! Good Indian. Embedded in the 6th St Indian madness is Banjara with delicious curries, dosas and samosas.
    ***

    The E.U. - A new chef prepares European comfort food including a thick and rich cassoulet, braised short ribs and Chicken and Dumplings along with a wide assortment of european beers. Very good.
    ***

    Falai - Modern Italian. Homemade Pasta. Creative Dishes like Beet & Lobster Risotto. One of the best meals had in NYC so far.
    *****

    Cafe Glechik - A Ukrainian cafe in Brighton Beach known for their dumplings. Try the veal and the Siberian.
    ***

    Rosario's Pizza - A tourist favorite of the LES, we read about this in one of our guide books. Pretty good pizza, but nothing special. Stay with the cheese.
    *

    Trattoria Spaghetto - Also mentioned in our guidebook, this Italian eatery actually turned out a better than expected lunch.
    **

    NY Noodletown - A decent Chinatown stop for Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup. Reminds me of Canton Wonton Noodle House in Seattle
    **

Day Two : Spotted Pig

Posted on November 21, 2007 by eternal

I ran today for the first time in over a month and it sucked. My heart rate was a good 20 bpm higher than usual for my 10min/mile pace and I just wanted to stop 1/2 way through. But I pushed on and after a super tiny breakfast (1/2 a cliff bar) and a small sandwich for lunch, I knew I deserved a bigger and better meal!

I met K back at our new room in the W (they moved us again after I complained about our other room) and we hoped on the 1 train to the West Village. After a short, 8 block walk to Greenwich and 11th, we made our way into The Spotted Pig.

The Spotted Pig is a gastropub partly owned by Mario Batali that received a Michelin star, which was just unheard of for a bar. But whatever you might think of Batali from his cooking show on the Food Network, his restaurants are generally very good, if not amazing. We had a delicious dinner of prosciutto fritters, Jerusalem artichoke salad with goat cheese and a split the Roquefort burger with shoestring fries (which everyone seems to get) with rosemary and garlic.

Yes, that’s right. Kelly now eats pork and red meat! yay! My life will be so much better! Seriously, I don’t know how serious meat eaters like myself can be married to vegetarians. There are so many things that are meant to be shared and the majority of them are meat dishes. I like veggie dishes as much as the next person but I needs me some meat sometimes.

Dessert was a lackluster prune tart. It wasn’t bad, but the old person fruit just isn’t my thing. Sorry. But don’t let that dim your expectations on the pig. It is a great place and you should visit it when you come to NY for a home-brewed ale and a anything on the menu. I’ve had other things and they were all great. It’s a cool little, dingy bar with great food and I hope I find many more like it.

After such a great dinner, we decided to bag our plans for a movie at the theater and just went back to the hotel to watch Superbad. Great movie, if a bit long for what it is.

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4 Responses to “Day Two : Spotted Pig”

  1. Kristin, on November 26th, 2007 at 4:07 am Said:

    Hey T & K!!!
    Sounds like NYC is turning out to be classic NYC: Lots of little unexpected hurdles, but loads of excitement and fun! New Yorkers will always happily make room for a couple more on the island, hehe.

    Rebecca, Donovan, Emily, Marissa, Heidi, Phil, Steve, Nate and I all missed you guys this past weekend (and any other Baker peeps who couldn’t make it up). We had a super fun day Friday snowshoeing and skinning up at Damfino Lakes, followed by hot tubbing, tons of amazing leftovers and a mean game of Taboo!!! The Twos won by a landslide: Me, Steve, Marissa and Donovan :-).

    SEATTLE MISSES YOU GUYS!

  2. Tarah, on November 26th, 2007 at 6:22 pm Said:

    I’m glad you guys have this blog, it’ll let us read all about your adventures. We miss you guys already!!

    Looking forward to visiting! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

  3. Kristin, on November 27th, 2007 at 4:03 am Said:

    Also, welcome back to the meat eaters side K! I myself was a veg-head for almost 9 straight years! Still not a huge meat eater, but I do love Nate’s pan seared halibut in butter, garlic and red-pepper flakes or a fabulous filet mignon — MMMMMMM!

  4. Nadja, on December 2nd, 2007 at 7:08 pm Said:

    Hi guys!!! Miss you!
    Thought of you yesterday when I saw a little snowy ball thingie yesterday of Seattle (but instead of white snowflakes floating in it, it was some black thing, which I could only guess was rain?). Funny, because it was snowing like crazy outside.
    Thanks for keeping us up to date on your adventures. Like your take on Tía Pol. I should say I went to Txori this past Sunday for a pre-opening mock serving, and the food was amazing! Take care!

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