Preview of the New Wing at the MFA
It happened a long time ago, I know, but the experience was really nice and I must write about that. The members preview was at November 14th, while we’re waiting to go in we saw how the people joined to queue. One minute before going in the situation looked like this:
I have to make a confession I was quite excited to have this privilege with my membership and everybody around us looked to feel the same as us.
The MFA gave to us the Boston Globe Magazine with a full illustrated article about the New Art of the American wing to make all of us more anxious about our imminent entrance.
I’ve been at the MFA for several times since I’m living in Boston, we bought our Memberships after our first visit because we knew that the Museum worth more time to absorb and enjoy all the expositions, but this visit was special, being direct witness of such as big event in my new city.
The opening came at 12:00 pm and… up the stairs, inside the building and the expectation of a child in Disney World. We went directly to the second floor, 19th century and early 20th century art. During all my education period the teachers that I had in Art or history spoke to me about European artist and European history. The discovery of new American painters (for me obviously) is a pleasant sensation that I experiment every time that I visit the museum.
I highly recommend at least one visit to the museum if you don’t know it yet.
These are some of the work of art that you can find at the second floor of the MFA.
I have to make a confession I was quite excited to have this privilege with my membership and everybody around us looked to feel the same as us.
The MFA gave to us the Boston Globe Magazine with a full illustrated article about the New Art of the American wing to make all of us more anxious about our imminent entrance.
I’ve been at the MFA for several times since I’m living in Boston, we bought our Memberships after our first visit because we knew that the Museum worth more time to absorb and enjoy all the expositions, but this visit was special, being direct witness of such as big event in my new city.
The opening came at 12:00 pm and… up the stairs, inside the building and the expectation of a child in Disney World. We went directly to the second floor, 19th century and early 20th century art. During all my education period the teachers that I had in Art or history spoke to me about European artist and European history. The discovery of new American painters (for me obviously) is a pleasant sensation that I experiment every time that I visit the museum.
I highly recommend at least one visit to the museum if you don’t know it yet.
These are some of the work of art that you can find at the second floor of the MFA.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
After six months living here this Saturday comes the moment to visit The JFK Library and Museum.
I have to say that JFK is the American president which I know more of his life but after this visit I realized that I didn’t know anything about him.
The building is in a beautiful location at the waterfront. The Pavilion is the most fantastic part of the building designated by I.M. Pei, the Chinese and American architect who designed the John Hancock Tower too.
Inside the Pavilion you feel an interior indescribable peace while you enjoy the sea with Boston city at the back , your mind think about the exposition that you just have seen and you think that was really unfair that somebody could devised a plan to assassinate him and deprive the world of such genius.
As a European person I knew that JFK was a good president that everybody loved him but I didn’t know a lot of details of his life that made me admire a man that risk his life for his believes. I think that he did that a lot of things that some of the good Americans presidents thought that were correct but hadn’t got the courage to do it or even to express aloud.
His pacifist inaugural speech was something that now still being shocked after fifty years and made you wonder how would have been the world if he had had time to carry out all of his presidential goals.
I was really surprise as well with Jackie’s cultural work, with her renovation of the White House, with her way of promoting the arts and, definitely, with her way of preserve and protect America’s cultural heritage.
We had a fantastic visit guided for a fantastic member of the museum who answered to all of our questions and explained the exhibition showing a huge knowledge of JFK life.
La Bayadère – The Boston Opera House
At Friday night I attended La Bayadere, after a lot of Operas, here it comes the moment for our first Ballet. We went with a friend who studied ballet and recommended to us attend to this one.I used to see ballet on television and usually I was doing something else at the same time but this time was to be different. I was to be concentrate at one hundred per cent.
The Boston Opera House is beautiful and big, you don’t know how big it is until you walk in through the little entrance door at Washington Street. While we’re waiting for our friend at the door we saw a lot of dancers coming to the performance you can realized that for their way of walking.
I have to say that the public was very disrespectful with the orchestra and they interrupt all the time clapping when a new dancer came to the stage. The most embarrassing moment was when at the second scene at the first act the public began to talk while the orchestra was playing the Ludwig Minkus music and they carried on talking as they were at the living room of their houses. It was unbelievable how every moment the people made comments all the time I’ve never seen this behavior neither at the school festival.
The story of the Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) is about the love between Nikita and the warrior Solor. Both of them promise each other eternal love dancing on a fire ceremony at India. Like opera this love is going to be impossible and both are going to suffer and as the opera somebody is going to die, in this case Nikita, The Bayadère. The principal dancers Misa Kuranaga and James Whiteside were fantastic with a really good technique on my friend words and the corps the ballet as well. It was a pleasure saw them dance although in my case I missed a soprano or tenor singing the story, but I went to The Ballet not to the Opera.
Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery
Saturday morning and it wasn’t raining and much better you could see blue patches on the sky. We took our Wine & Cheese Trail Guide and we were ready to taste local wines and sparkling wines. We thought that with our guide and our GPS we were able to find all the vineyards, but wasn’t easy, next time I’ll check all the web pages to ensure the localization. Since the countryside is full of color we didn't mind get lost. Beside of our fail to find some places we had a lovely wine taste at Westport Rivers , a vineyard that we didn’t chose to visit but went we saw the sign at the road we decided to go in.
Inside the barn you can see how the bottles are placing waiting the correct time to be labeled and being ready to chair celebrations, couple dinners, special occasions and to everyone who likes a glass of wine without another desire to taste a good wine.We returned inside the house and began our wine tasting. The entire group from the tour placed round the tasting bar ready to taste the wines come from the vineyard that had just been visited. All the time you are surrounding by a familiar ambiance that make you feel very comfortable. We taste 8 wines, with their respective explanations and recommendations.
My favorite wine was The Pineau de Pinot one, a dessert wine full of flavor, they use distillation and fermentation to create this wine, is a caramel color wine with fruity touch when you drink it.
We only had time to visit this vineyard but we are already thinking to visit some more with shop on a nearest time.
Second visit to New York
Any excuse is good to go to New York and this time was that a friend from UK comes to New York for the weekend. We made our luggage and ready to enjoy the Big Apple. Because the Statue of the Liberty is close, we thought to take a ferry and cross to Staten Island. We choose the hotel in Wall Street area. The hotel looked all right at the web page, but when you walk in looks a little bit old-fashioned, cute but old-fashioned. I really don’t recommend this hotel although it is in a good area to start a tour in New York. The old air conditioning – heat conducted transports a constant loud noise that makes your rest a little difficult.
THE MET – BORIS GODUNOV
Our first time at the Metropolitan Opera, before to sit in your place to see the performance you go through the majestic stairs and viola you are ready to enjoy the fabulous voices that have the honor to sing at the MET.
The Set design wasn’t take breathing but the set designers achieved make something easy and pleasant to see.
P.J. Clarke’s
The performance finished really late and in a hurry we choose an open restaurant at the area. The chosen was P.J. Clarke’s, a beautiful restaurant established at 1884. It wasn’t my idea to finish at night at the opera dinning hamburgers but the timing put pressure on us, and if wanted to have dinner at 11:30 at night this had to be the palce.
The hamburgers are really good and you can choose to put on it between different chesses and features.
The ambience is curios because you can see whole families, old couples that come from the MET, young people drinking beer, all of them living in harmony.
BRUNCH AT SOHO - EMPORIO
After a few hours walking in a windy day we come in at EMPORIO, a fantastic restaurant tasteful decorated, with a very attentive service, and the best of all a delicious food.
I ate Uova al’forno , eggs baked in an iron skillet with tomato sauce, mozzarella and prosciutto. I took a picture of them, because the presentation seemed fantastic. My half ate Wood Oven Baked Rigatoni, ricotta, sausage, mushroom, provolone in an iron skillet too, he was very happy with his election.
We accompanied our food with a Soju Bloody Mary in my case and he did it with a great red wine.
THE MET – BORIS GODUNOV
Our first time at the Metropolitan Opera, before to sit in your place to see the performance you go through the majestic stairs and viola you are ready to enjoy the fabulous voices that have the honor to sing at the MET.
The Set design wasn’t take breathing but the set designers achieved make something easy and pleasant to see.
P.J. Clarke’s
The performance finished really late and in a hurry we choose an open restaurant at the area. The chosen was P.J. Clarke’s, a beautiful restaurant established at 1884. It wasn’t my idea to finish at night at the opera dinning hamburgers but the timing put pressure on us, and if wanted to have dinner at 11:30 at night this had to be the palce.
The hamburgers are really good and you can choose to put on it between different chesses and features.
The ambience is curios because you can see whole families, old couples that come from the MET, young people drinking beer, all of them living in harmony.
BRUNCH AT SOHO - EMPORIO
After a few hours walking in a windy day we come in at EMPORIO, a fantastic restaurant tasteful decorated, with a very attentive service, and the best of all a delicious food.
I ate Uova al’forno , eggs baked in an iron skillet with tomato sauce, mozzarella and prosciutto. I took a picture of them, because the presentation seemed fantastic. My half ate Wood Oven Baked Rigatoni, ricotta, sausage, mushroom, provolone in an iron skillet too, he was very happy with his election. We accompanied our food with a Soju Bloody Mary in my case and he did it with a great red wine.
Ristorante Sarraceno
After a gym session to try to burn all the excess of calories for last night I had a light breakfast and I dressed up to enjoy the fantastic Sunday.
We went to The North End to discover new facades and new buildings and walk around the streets. After a while our friends phoned us and we meet with them.
We show to them “Little Italy” and the surrounding area and when we felt starving we went to the first restaurant that we tried in Little Italy four months ago Ristorante Sarraceno.
The homemade pasta is perfect cooked and the plates are huge, the service is attentive and you left the restaurant with a good sensation thinking that you have just eaten fresh products perfectly elaborated. Because we knew the restaurant and we had a great dinner the day before we only ask for a main and we were completely satisfied when we finished our lunch. I had Rigatoni all arrabbiata, the pasta with spicy just as I liked, usually I can’t finish my plates but it was delicious and I didn’t leave anything on my plate as a big girl. No one of my companions left anything on their plates either. On the table were “Spaghetti alla Vongole”, “Risotto Mushroom” and “Spaghetti alla Carbonara” a good representation of the Italian cuisine.
We went to The North End to discover new facades and new buildings and walk around the streets. After a while our friends phoned us and we meet with them.
We show to them “Little Italy” and the surrounding area and when we felt starving we went to the first restaurant that we tried in Little Italy four months ago Ristorante Sarraceno.
The homemade pasta is perfect cooked and the plates are huge, the service is attentive and you left the restaurant with a good sensation thinking that you have just eaten fresh products perfectly elaborated. Because we knew the restaurant and we had a great dinner the day before we only ask for a main and we were completely satisfied when we finished our lunch. I had Rigatoni all arrabbiata, the pasta with spicy just as I liked, usually I can’t finish my plates but it was delicious and I didn’t leave anything on my plate as a big girl. No one of my companions left anything on their plates either. On the table were “Spaghetti alla Vongole”, “Risotto Mushroom” and “Spaghetti alla Carbonara” a good representation of the Italian cuisine.
GRILL 23 & BAR
What could be better to finish a fantastic fall day that have dinner with friends in a great restaurant, personally I think that nothing could be better. The restaurant was completely full, both the bar and the restaurant.
Our table was near the open kitchen, a round table that at first I thought it wasn’t in a good place but finally there was enough space to have dinner comfortable and to the waiters walk around.
We order a Shell Sampler to share as entre, wonderful oysters and delicious lobster. As main each of us ordered beef of course, the ladies asked for fillet Mignon and the gentlemen for the Dry-Aged New York beef, It’s no necessary to say that all was cooked as we asked and my Fillet Mignon was pure butter, easy to cut and delicious in my mouth, I shared my impressions with my friend and she thought the same, the gentlemen were more than satisfied with their elections. We choose a delicious Carpe Diem red wine to go with our dinner, a difficult decision over the more of 1000 selections.
We left the responsibility to choose the dessert to one of us and the chosen one was Valrhona Chocolate Layer Cake, I don’t have words to describe how it was, uhmmmmmmmmm, definitely we'll have dinner there again for sure.
GRILL 23 & BAR
Our table was near the open kitchen, a round table that at first I thought it wasn’t in a good place but finally there was enough space to have dinner comfortable and to the waiters walk around.
We order a Shell Sampler to share as entre, wonderful oysters and delicious lobster. As main each of us ordered beef of course, the ladies asked for fillet Mignon and the gentlemen for the Dry-Aged New York beef, It’s no necessary to say that all was cooked as we asked and my Fillet Mignon was pure butter, easy to cut and delicious in my mouth, I shared my impressions with my friend and she thought the same, the gentlemen were more than satisfied with their elections. We choose a delicious Carpe Diem red wine to go with our dinner, a difficult decision over the more of 1000 selections.
We left the responsibility to choose the dessert to one of us and the chosen one was Valrhona Chocolate Layer Cake, I don’t have words to describe how it was, uhmmmmmmmmm, definitely we'll have dinner there again for sure.
GRILL 23 & BAR
First Summer in US
Our first Summer in US has been fantastic. As you maybe know we have been living in UK for the past three years and a half, then we were a little scare about if the towns and sceneries were to be as beautiful as the UK countryside are. The forests are huge and never end and there are a lot of trails to follow. The towns are quite new for what we use to have in Europe, they don’t have the ancient heritage of England’s towns but we knew that before to begin the holidays, besides of that the towns are very charming.
Manchester – Vermont
We expended two nights at The Inn at Ormsby Hill , this is a very special Inn, where you can feel the care that the owners Ted and Chris have put to make the place your home.
The first night we have dinner at The Olde Tavern , what a fantastic place, full of history and delicious meals with local products.
The day began rainy but we thought that with the proper clothes we could spent a beautiful day at the Green Mountains. What a great idea because under the trees the rain was less. We choose hiked at the Lye Brook Falls.
The second night we had dinner at Chantecleer Restaurant. We have an excellent dinner in this old barn, the decoration is really nice, and we were sat at front of the majestic stone fireplace. The cuisine is French using local products as more of the local restaurants do. The service was very nice, letting us to enjoy of our conversation and keeping our glasses full of our chosen wine
Manchester – Vermont
We chose Manchester because is surrounded by the Green Mountains and we’re anxious to hiking there. Manchester is an Outlet town, but we didn’t realize that until we began to walk around the town. When you past through the town you think, what a beautiful town with colorful houses, and all of them are stores.
The day began rainy but we thought that with the proper clothes we could spent a beautiful day at the Green Mountains. What a great idea because under the trees the rain was less. We choose hiked at the Lye Brook Falls.
After 2.3 miles we show the fantastic falls falling down between the rocks. All the rain was worth the effort to see the fantastic waterfalls.
The second night we had dinner at Chantecleer Restaurant. We have an excellent dinner in this old barn, the decoration is really nice, and we were sat at front of the majestic stone fireplace. The cuisine is French using local products as more of the local restaurants do. The service was very nice, letting us to enjoy of our conversation and keeping our glasses full of our chosen wineJackson – New Hampshire
Jackson has at the entrance of the town a fantastic cover bridge where the just married couples used to take pictures there.
We stayed at The Christmas Farm Inn, a lovely hotel that just has new managers; we have a fantastic two days there. The bed is huge and the Jacuzzi too!!
Our hiking was, “Nancy Brook Trail”. What lucky we were, the weather was great and the reward when you finish your ascension is marvelous as you can see at the picture. 
Before reach this fantastic point you should had experimented a lot of good sensations watching the fauna and flora on your ascension as well you should had suppressed your desire of jump at Nancy water fall. The second night we followed this couple advice we had dinner at White Mountain Cider Co, the restaurant is an old farm, decorated with a great taste and the most important issue, the food is spectacular. I recommend you to order “Basil & Garlic marinated Tomatoes”, Balsamic Reduction & Warm Goat Chesse Fondue, it’s a great idea to eat baby tomatoes.
Ogunquit – Maine
We awoke up with a raining day again, but didn’t stop us to carry on our trip. Before arrive to our final destination we rode on the Mt. Washington Auto Road .
The road is amazing and if you had a clear day the view has to be breathtaking. You drive up listening a CD guide, which explains to you the history of the Auto Road. The explanation is very clear and you can imagine the first travelers on their horse cars. The ascension was all right we hope all the time a weather change but it never happened. When we reached the peak the weather was worst, it looked as the end of the world was approaching, strong winds, heavy rain and a lot of clouds. We have to go again.
Our hotel in Ogunquit was The Terrace by the Sea, the location is great only a few steps from the water and the views are fantastic. We had a partial ocean view room but we could see the ocean through our window. The day wasn’t fantastic but be at the hotel all time wasn’t a good idea. We took our car and drove near the sea till reach Perkins Cove. We parked our car there and visited the original and little stores. After our window shopping we started the Marginal Way, a scenic walk. It’s a one mile path along the seashore.
Our first night in Ogunquit we had dinner at Gipsy Sweethearts at Ogunquit, after the fabulous places where we had dinner the last days, this one was only a correct restaurant in a beautiful place, a kitchen without a lot of pretensions in a warm ambiance.
Our last day was absolutely great, the sun shining, good temperature and no signal from the awful previous weather. Our relaxing beach day was the icing on the cake.
A little bit sad because the end of our holidays was in front of us and with a good taste in our mouths beacuse our holidays had been fantasticwe were to find the next place for our dinner. It was The Blue Water Inn,. We had dinner on the terrace, the service was great, the seafood fresh and good cooked even the music was perfect, sixties music my favourite.
The road is amazing and if you had a clear day the view has to be breathtaking. You drive up listening a CD guide, which explains to you the history of the Auto Road. The explanation is very clear and you can imagine the first travelers on their horse cars. The ascension was all right we hope all the time a weather change but it never happened. When we reached the peak the weather was worst, it looked as the end of the world was approaching, strong winds, heavy rain and a lot of clouds. We have to go again.
Our hotel in Ogunquit was The Terrace by the Sea, the location is great only a few steps from the water and the views are fantastic. We had a partial ocean view room but we could see the ocean through our window. The day wasn’t fantastic but be at the hotel all time wasn’t a good idea. We took our car and drove near the sea till reach Perkins Cove. We parked our car there and visited the original and little stores. After our window shopping we started the Marginal Way, a scenic walk. It’s a one mile path along the seashore.
Our first night in Ogunquit we had dinner at Gipsy Sweethearts at Ogunquit, after the fabulous places where we had dinner the last days, this one was only a correct restaurant in a beautiful place, a kitchen without a lot of pretensions in a warm ambiance.
Our last day was absolutely great, the sun shining, good temperature and no signal from the awful previous weather. Our relaxing beach day was the icing on the cake.
A little bit sad because the end of our holidays was in front of us and with a good taste in our mouths beacuse our holidays had been fantasticwe were to find the next place for our dinner. It was The Blue Water Inn,. We had dinner on the terrace, the service was great, the seafood fresh and good cooked even the music was perfect, sixties music my favourite.
4th of July in Boston
It has been our first 4th of July in America. It has been incredible. It’s amazing how the American citizens live this day. I don’t know if in all cities are the same but in Boston is a day that makes the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end. The riverside was full of people; there wasn’t any centimeter of grass free to sit down. Everybody was out of their houses ready to live the freedom day. I don’t know if it is because I’m from Spain and we aren’t very patriots but this patriotism see on life is astonishing for me.
We went to the River Charles Esplanade on midday to look around and know what the Americans do in this particular day that you know from the films. The Esplanade was full of people everybody camped in everywhere, after the 4th of July I’ve discovered that everybody goes early to have a good spot to listen the music and to see the night fireworks.
The fireworks started around half past ten and I don’t know if it’s because the environment and the situation, they had been the best ones that I’ve ever seen. Thousands of people looking at the sky at the same time, waiting for the light and colors coming from the fireworks, it is something impossible to forget.
I forgot my camera and I had to take the pictures with the Iphone, but I’ll always have the moment recorded on my mind.
Walden Pond – Concord
This weekend we have visited Walden Pond in Concord . My half missed country side and we tried to hike there. The chosen place was The Walden Pond, a beautiful place where you can walk around the Lake and you can swim there. The estimate time to walk around the Pond is around one hour. It was a pity that we forgot our swimwears because the fantastic and hot day invited you to swim in the Pond.
You have to go early because if not you will find the car parking close, I think that is a good measure to avoid a crowed place. We parked the car one mile away from the Pond Parking and walked aside the road till we found the beginning of the path.
As you walk, you can see countless spices of animals, little snakes, squirrels, birds … you can also hear the wooden pickers above your head. At half of your walk you can see the place where Henry Thoreau lived for some years, now you can see some rocks where the house was, respecting the environment.
When we finished the walk, we went to visit Concord, a beautiful town with beautiful houses. We parked in front of a fantastic Cheese shop called “The Concord Cheese Shop” . It’s a little gem in a little town; you can find the finest wines and cheeses from around the world that you can ever imagine, we saw wines from Spain that barely can find there and the most surprising are the prices, they aren’t astronomical are reasonable a good thing to make me a regular costumer because Boston is only a few miles away. By the way today we had dinner with the fantastic white wine that we bought there, Brown Stone, a Californian one.
We show this sign of the First Parish of Concord with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote that I think that more than one politic have to read and applied in their management. " True Peace is not merely the absence of tension is the presence of justice"
Japanese food
What can I say, I’m addicted to it, I love it, and I think that I could be able to eat every day sushi and makis (rolls). My new city is offering me a lot of places to do it; the most convenient is Yummy Express near my home. I like this place, the cookers don’t speak English but the woman outside is really nice and explain to you the options in their menu. I’ve eaten from the Lunch buffet (Chinese), I definitely like it, but the best thing is the price and I’ve eaten hand rolls, fantastic and they make them at the moment that you ask for them.
At Cambridge Street there is another Japanese restaurant Mai Soba ,I have to try this one because every night is full of people and the dishes that you can see through the windows looks really nice. (Pending business)
At Cambridge Street there is another Japanese restaurant Mai Soba ,I have to try this one because every night is full of people and the dishes that you can see through the windows looks really nice. (Pending business)
And of course the fabolous and marvellous Whole Foods, with fresh shusi and Makis at any time of the day.
All the time that I eat Japanese food I remember when I did Makis for first and only time, the first roll was a disaster but the next ones were fantastic, a very professional ones. I made them with Iberian Jam, anchovies, feta, avocado, and now I can’t remember more ingredients. I think that I left my bamboo rolling mat in Uk where I’ve been living for the last three years and a half, now I have the perfect excuse to visit the Chinese Distric to buy another one and buy nori, rice, vinegar and who knows what can I find there.
My first hand made rolls.
All the time that I eat Japanese food I remember when I did Makis for first and only time, the first roll was a disaster but the next ones were fantastic, a very professional ones. I made them with Iberian Jam, anchovies, feta, avocado, and now I can’t remember more ingredients. I think that I left my bamboo rolling mat in Uk where I’ve been living for the last three years and a half, now I have the perfect excuse to visit the Chinese Distric to buy another one and buy nori, rice, vinegar and who knows what can I find there.
My first hand made rolls.
Running along the Charles River
First of all I hate run, but the age and the kilos have pushed me to do something, to be precise exercise, and where could be the best place to do it, The Charles River Esplanade.
I have to push myself to go to run but when I cross the bridge and I'm able to see the river is an experience that's worth all the effort.
I did it walking and is a good experience too but my circumstances make me run. I don't feel alone because everybody run there. I remember the first time that I saw the river, a month and a half ago, it's quite wide and transmit peace, you can see all the city from the bridge and is a good sensation.
If it's good weather, it's been since May, you can see the families and couples having picnic, it should be a nice experience see to get dark on the river side. (A pending matter.)
Today has been the first day that I ran first thing in the morning, maybe is the second one , but is the first one that I was able to enjoy the running without die at half way.
All the preparations are ready for July the 4th, is going to be really especial because is going to be my first 4th of July in US, and is going to be in my new city, BOSTON.
I feel great and best of all IS FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Good Holiday long weekend.
My weekend in New York
There was a long time that I wanted to know New York, and the moment was last weekend. The experience has been fantastic. I've felt as a little bug in a big forest. The sensation is that everything move forward quickly and you move slowly. The buildings are huge, and your neck hurts because you try to see the end of every skyscrapers.
We have been in a really nice hotel that I found in one of my favourites websites Mr & Mrs Smith. The Hotel is a Boutique Hotel place between the 5Th Avenue and the 56Th Street. I recommend this hotel to everybody because it is in a good location to begin to explore the city. The staff is fantastic, very helpful and make you feel as home.
We have been in a really nice hotel that I found in one of my favourites websites Mr & Mrs Smith. The Hotel is a Boutique Hotel place between the 5Th Avenue and the 56Th Street. I recommend this hotel to everybody because it is in a good location to begin to explore the city. The staff is fantastic, very helpful and make you feel as home.
We were in a corner room facing the 56Th Street with floor to ceiling windows. The rooms are originals and really nice with an artistic decoration sense. You can see the firefighter pipes lines on the ceiling room. It has a fantastic modern bathroom with a great shower.
You are in s short distance of Central Park and all of the 5th Avenue Shops.
There are plenty of restaurants around the Hotel. We didn't have dinner at the hotel in spite that it has good reviews everywhere.
We had dinner in two Italians Restaurant the first one was Bice. We had dinner there because we know the one in Madrid, the food was nice, huge portions and fresh products but the wine list has exorbitant prices, the place is big and is a little bit noisy. When we left the restaurant we had a estrange sensation, the dinner was good but the place and the environment aren't worth the money.
The second one is wonderful, was Il Gattopardo, in front of Moma Museum. When you go inside you can choose to have dinner at the restaurant or "outside", at the conservatory, and that is really nice because you can see the sky and the neighbourhood buildings. The decoration is pleasant with a big larder where the waitress leave the water bottles and the cutlery. The time between dishes is perfect allowing you enjoy the night and the wine. The food was delicious and it has a wine list with reasonable prices and a good range of Italian wines. The service was very attentive and we had a fantastic evening. I'll come back for sure.
There are plenty of restaurants around the Hotel. We didn't have dinner at the hotel in spite that it has good reviews everywhere.
We had dinner in two Italians Restaurant the first one was Bice. We had dinner there because we know the one in Madrid, the food was nice, huge portions and fresh products but the wine list has exorbitant prices, the place is big and is a little bit noisy. When we left the restaurant we had a estrange sensation, the dinner was good but the place and the environment aren't worth the money.
The second one is wonderful, was Il Gattopardo, in front of Moma Museum. When you go inside you can choose to have dinner at the restaurant or "outside", at the conservatory, and that is really nice because you can see the sky and the neighbourhood buildings. The decoration is pleasant with a big larder where the waitress leave the water bottles and the cutlery. The time between dishes is perfect allowing you enjoy the night and the wine. The food was delicious and it has a wine list with reasonable prices and a good range of Italian wines. The service was very attentive and we had a fantastic evening. I'll come back for sure.
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