Let's just pretend we haven't skipped a beat with our blogging, and now we're magically onto our Saturday food adventures in NYC. And boy did we pack in a lot of food! After a full afternoon and evening of photographing a wedding in Brooklyn and at Bubby's, we got up pretty early to hit up the flea markets out in Williamsburg. But before we got on the G line train, we walked into "dough" for a healthy breakfast, DONUTS! these donuts are really the size of small cakes, but they came with high recommendation so we each had to have one. May had the Earl Grey Chocolate and I had the the Blood Orange which you see in the photo. Slightly denser than most Canadian donuts that we eat, there was a very satisfying chew in texture; but at the end of the day i'd have to say the draw to these donuts are their very unique flavours. The lineups all over speak for themselves.
After a quick visit to Artist & Flea, we walked right to the water's edge for Smorgasburg. My kinda market, this otherwise clear park space was full of food vendors. A wide range tents serving ready made food of all sorts. Anything you can imagine it was all there, we are talking about grilled cheeses, beef jerky, ramen noodles, tempeh, smokehouse bbq sandwiches, smoores, pickles, yes everything. After a long deliberation we shared a lobster roll and schnitzel. At $16, the lobster roll from Red Hook Lobster Pound was good, but not particularly unique. But holy schnitz! that pretzel bun schnitzel was likely one of the best sandwiches we've ever had. Called the "Bamberg", the chicken had a parsley panko crust, with cucumber daikon and carmelized onion mustard. boomshakalaka! this is a must for everyone.
We spent the late afternoon walking the amazing Highline and exploring around Chelsea before we eventually made our way to Eataly. What is Eataly you ask? well it is this amazing Italian food emporium that prior to this trip i read so much about through the new york times. Look, if Mario Batali is involved, you should have high expectations and that it definitely met. Just imagine every kind of inspiring and delicious food venues squashed into one big space. We're talking about aisles of imported and freshly made italian foods, specialized grocery selection, culinary and wine classes, and multiple food stations/restaurants serving up delicious eats. I was initially worried how pretentious this kind of place might be, but if you can appreciate the level of quality a place like this delivers; Eataly is an extremly lively and socially engaging space. It was noisy, crowded but everyone was excited by food in all ways imaginable and we were no different. We eventually found a bar infront of a pizza oven. May had the Salsicciotta, which was a Napolettana pizza with smoked provola cheese, mushrooms, neapolitan sausage and fresh basil. I had the Rigatoni with sweet sausage, tomato, grana padano, pecorino and bitter greens. Simply perfection; so good infact that our oohs and ahhs convinced the people next to me to order the same thing, true story. And like every good evening, we ended it off with pistacio and coconut gelato, yes sir.
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