About half of my plans for staycation involved restaurants I’ve always wanted to visit but never have (Niche, Half and Half, Broadway Oyster Bar, Favazas, Triumph Grill) or returns to favorites (Farmhaus, LiLuma, Blue Owl).
Two things have kiboshed these plans.
1) Gary has made it clear that even a vacation thirty miles afield is too much stress. We’ve learned that we work best if a) we eat in familiar locations, b) I drive, and c) he buys stuff to relax. He bought himself a new PC and an iPad. “But you have iPad,” you ask. Yes. Yes, I do. Multiple iPads for one household. Given that the only other thing that relaxes him and cheers him up is Baileys, I don’t mind.
2) There was a charity event on Sunday where one could taste unlimited wines, beers and food from area restaurants. We ate everything. I’d estimate we ate 35 tiny servings of vegetable lasgana, beef wellington, scallops, polenta, pork belly, risotto, gnocchi, pate, braised short ribs, just every precious foodstuff you could imagine. There were at least three pork sliders alone. My favorite was the ice cream sandwich made of espresso bean cookie and bacon fat ice cream.
So now I never want to eat restaurant food again. Just yesterday we were blocks from Niche and I had no desire to visit.
2 responses to “Enough with Food”
We have 3 iPads in our household. I asked my son if he wanted to make it an even 4 and I’d get him one for Christmas. He declined. I’ll never understand men.
Candy – Thank you, This makes me feel much much better,