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.

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.

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