New York: Eat !

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These are some of the cool restaurants we went to during my brief stay in New York. My gourmet international friends stayed longer than I did, so they went to more.

 Eat.

The Standard Grill - Meatpacking District

Hello! it's 4pm, and we are a bit hungry. Bring us the hamburguers and french-fries (recommended), 

and a cobb salad, please!

Hola! son las 4pm y tenemos hambre. Pedimos las hamburguesas con papas fritas y ensaladas

The Standard Grill, where you eat well and watch the young and the hip crowds playing ping-pong in the adjacent patio

Buena comida y gente canchera jugando al ping pong en el salon de al lado

Puppy salt and pepper shakers!! Kiss!!

Salero y pimentero de perritos. Besitos!!

The floor made of pennies. Our black ballerinas

El piso, hecho de monedas

Le Pain Quotidien - ABC Carpet and Home

Magda and George had soft-boiled organic eggs with bread, dip, dip. I loved the egg holders, very british. I had the organic steel-cut oatmeal with berries pictured above. Marian had fruit. The tea and coffee came in huge cups

La comida aca es casi toda organica. Las chicas comieron "huevos pasados por agua" y pan, yo avena con frutos del bosque y marian, fruta. Todas, te o cafe con leche que vinieron en unos bowls enormes

Sleepy face! Taken from an i-phone. This restaurant is connected to the super-exciting ABC Carpet and Home store, so we went there after. Too bad it was a Sunday, we missed the Union Square farmers market down the street.


Que cara de dormida! Este restaurant esta conectado con ABC Carpet and Home, una de mis tiendas preferidas en NY. Fuimos ahi y como era domingo, nos perdimos el Union Square Farmer's Market que se hace en la otra cuadra y me encanta

Fonda Nolita - Nolita

While we waited for our table at Cafe Habana, we walked around Nolita. This garage is a Mexican restaurant, Fonda Nolita, complete with a decorated Volkswagen car that sells famous Tacombi Mexican tacos. A very cute spot on Elizabeth Street!

Haciendo tiempo en Nolita, caminamos por Elizabeth St. donde esta este garage devenido restaurant, venden burritos Tacombi desde la camioneta VW, estacionada en el interior... interesante

Cafe Habana - Nolita

At Cafe Habana the corn on the cob order is a must... unique and deliciousss!! 

En Cafe Habana hay que pedir los choclos... los preparan de forma original y deliciosa!!

The fish tacos were not a success

No pidan los tacos de pescado

Strolling to Soho from Nolita neighborhood for dessert...

Bueno ahora, para el postre, vamos hacia Soho...

Pinkberry - Soho

Freshness! Frozen yogurt with fruit and chocolate on top... not too sweet. mmmm

Frescura! Yogur helado con fruta y chocolatitos... no muy dulce. mmmm

Clinton St. Baking Company - Lower East Side

The long wait for a table turned our breakfast into brunch. With George, we shared pancakes with blueberries and eggs benedict on bread. The milkshake lived up to its fame, it was chocolate for me!

Esperamos anios por una mesa en este muy concurrido lugar para desayunar. Asi que hicimos un brunch, con George compartimos una mega torre de panqueques y arandanos y unos egg benedict. Habia que probar el famosisimo milkshake - batido de helado, asi que.. uno de chocolate para mi!

Pastis - Meatpacking District

 Best dressed restaurant: I thought this girl looked lovely with her tutu skirt and matching cashmere sweater

En este restaurant todos lucen muy bien vestidos. Me encanto en conjunto tutu y cashmere de esta chica, completo con la colita hacia el costado

Pastis is where the well-dressed meet. The scene at the bar from our table. 

La escena de los bien vestidos de la barra desde nuestra mesa

We agreed that the food at Pastis was surprisingly terrible, as the cocktails. This couple probably thinks so too... sitting across from us, the man reminded me of a Transylvanian count, count Dracula, hair parted in the middle and gelled to the sides, stiff buttoned up shirt, expensive sweater, intriguing demeanor, impeccable manners. Anyways....

La comida en Pastis, un desastre! Los cocktails, muy malos tambien. Asi que hablemos de la gente, eso si valio la pena mirar. Este hombre de la mesa de al lado me intrigo. Parecia un conde, podria ser un conde Dracula moderno. El pelo peinado raya al medio, engominado, modales impecables, serio, con camisa almidonada y abotonada, sueter costosisimo... en fin

 Mercer Kitchen - Soho

Mercer Kitchen is the best!!! It was hard to get a table without a reservation but worth the effort! I forgot to take my camera; everything looked amazing as always. We ordered pasta with a mushroom sauce and a pizza, and a mozzarella burrata to start. We had the best time. I love it here!!

Me encanta Mercer Kitchen! Nos costo conseguir mesa, para variar encaramos sin reserva, pero valio la pena el intento. Comimos barbaro, unas pastas, pizzas, y muzzarela burrata. Hay siempre buen ambiente, el lugar es divino, el servicio impecable. Un buen restaurant. Es lo mas!

Macao - Tribeca

This restaurant is also a very cool night club. Once Magda got us past the velvet rope, we were greeted by a friendly hostess who did her best to get us a table. We opted for the bar instead, went downstairs, checked out the decor - including an interesting corner with antique phallic objects and photos - and headed out to Mercer Kitchen.

Magda nos llevo a este restaurant-boliche de duenos brasileros creo. Me gusto mucho

Next post: New York: Pray, Love... Shop

lepainquotidien.com

cafehabana.com

pinkberry.com

tacombi.com

jean-georges.com (the mercer)

macaonyc.com

New York: Eat. Cook, Pray. Love... and Shop.

Eat, Cook , Pray, Love: 
this is a cooking trip to Share and have FUN with friends.
four friends's search for Everything Gourmet. 
four countries meet in one city, New York. 

 Georgina  crossed the pond from Madrid, Spain,   

 Magda  took a plane from Sao Pablo, Brazil, 

 Marian  flew in from Buenos Aires, Argentina.   

and I,  Sil  flew in from Miami, USA.

 .... look at these pics and feel the LOVE !!

 Cook.

Cooking classes at the Institute of Culinary Education, on 23rd St. in New York. 

Taking notes. Deep concentration, please!!

Tomando notas. Profunda concentracion, por favor!!

Beautiful Chef Magda... move over, Nigela!

 Sous-chef Sil

Try not to make a mess, Sil!

Trata de no hacer lio, Sil!!

Top Chefs in the race against time!!!!

Top Chefs en la carrera contra el reloj!!!!

Mastering the use of the scoop... genious discovery for cookie-making!!

Dominando el uso del scoop... descubrimiento genial para hacer galletitas!!

 Ok, Marian, which recipe next???

OK, Marian, que receta nos toca hacer ahora???

 And this is the correct technique for the Apricot pistachio white chocolate chip cookie roll...

Aprendiendo tecnicas...

While the Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with pecans wait for their turn in the oven, we properly slice the Chocolate chunk cherry mandelbrot


Esperando turno para el horno, cortando el biscuit

Cupcakes! General consensus: too much fat in this recipe!!

Cupcakes! Concenso general: demasiada grasa en esta receta!!

But we still love cupcakes!!


Pero nos siguen encantando los cupcakes!!




(coming up in the next post: EAT!!)

The Institute of Culinary Education
www.iceculinary.com

Amanda Cutter Brooks Style

I am working on a post on Spring Fashion Week in New York (figuring out how to best present it to you...), and coming across pictures of Amanda Cutter Brooks, author and fashion consultant, one of my favorite women in fashion, as you may already know. Amanda Brooks was also one of the first to visit my blog, and she was sweet enough to write to me to say that she liked it (see link below, or look for it in previous posts)! Anyways, I could not resist sharing these photos. See her contemporary classic looks:

Running to the Phillip Lim show. How gorgeously perfect is this outfit?

Beautiful shoes by Reed Krakoff. Wow.

It's a baseball t-shirt! I would not have guessed. Loving the shoes...

Of-the-moment outfit at Diane Von Furstenberg

An unexpected combination at the front row

I love it when she does bohemian - suits her well. At the Chanel Soho party

In a LBD, with Thakoon at Fashion's Night Out

In a LWD, at the New Museum's gala

With J. Crew's Jenna Lyon at a Conde Nast Screening

Carlos Mota, Amanda Brooks and Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa at Carlos Mota's book launch at The Mercer hotel in Soho

Estoy trabajando con un post sobre la semana de la moda de primavera en New York (viendo bien como se los presento...), y encontrando fotos de Amanda Cutter Brooks, una de mis mujeres preferidas en la moda como ya sabran. Amanda Brooks fue una de las primeras en visitar mi blog, y divina! me escribio diciendo lo mucho que le gustaba el blog (ver link abajo, o busquenlo en posts previos)! En fin, no pude resistirme a compartir estas fotos. Ella es tan contemporanea y clasica!

What did you think of the pictures? Do you like her style as much as I do?

Que opinan? Les gusta su estilo tanto como a mi?

www.garancedore.fr

facebook/I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks

http://silvinadibar.blogspot.com/2009/11/style-icon.html
http://silvinadibar.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-visit-amanda-cutter-brooks.html