Day 3: New York

Day 3: New York

Weather: Cool and sunny and slight breezes: perfect

Pics: Shots of the High Line Park from below, Rice to Riches, and in the category of why we didn’t think of it: NY Yankees fragrance (and the reason the A’s didn’t think of it: THEY STINK!)

Fitness center, grapenuts and fruit, coffee in the room. Walk back to Chelsea and visit a number of galleries, see a few pieces of note including one where a video is free when you buy a small piece of art that is abstracted from the video. THB thinks the video is more fascinating than the artwork, may buy a piece to get the free video!

Lunch at Co, a pizza place owned by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery (go out and buy his bread book, My Bread, now and start making the best bread this side of Tartine, at home!); we’ve been here before, and it is just as good: pizza blanca (plain pizza dough with bit of olive oil and salt), arugula salad with artichokes, pizza with tomato sauce, arugula and stracciatella (burrata-like cheese, aka soft mozzarella). Two lemonades, $53.

Recreational pre-wedding shopping and a walk back to the hotel, stopping at Pinkberry along the way to cool off throats and feet, $10.50 (yes, for two small cups). Change for SOFA, show mostly of sculptural objects and jewelry. Take the subway, $4.50, stops are a block from the hotel and block from the Armory where the show is being held.

And, SOFA somewhat of a dud, very little of interest to THB and DB, we think we may have just seen too much craft and jewelry by now to be wowed. After a few hours, we start reviewing dinner plans and settle on Sorbella, in Little Italy. It may as well been in Italy, it is around a $18 cab ride (a lot for getting anywhere in Manhattan).

Dinner is excellent: three different salads (kale again, arugula again, and stracciatella again, this time with fava beans); share a squid and squid ink farfalle (bowtie pasta), with kale yet again; one of the better dishes we’ve had recently (meaning, in the last 3-4 months), one drink, one glass of wine, lots of those think crunchy salty bread sticks, $120.

Walking back to the subway through Nolita and the Soho, 100% jumping with people only on average 30 years younger than us. Spot a dessert place we’ve never seen before (and thus THB dove right in): rice pudding, all rice pudding, all rice pudding with sweet to very sweet toppings. We order a small cinnamon and raisins, $4.50. Two small spoonfuls each, and the rest comes back to the hotel for the night.

Subway to a block from the hotel: $4.50