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.