Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lederhosen

Today for lunch we took a trip downtown to one of our favorite places.  Lederhosen is a lovely German restaurant in the West Village.

The food was fabulous, as always!  The place can get a little loud at night as it is a bar as well as a restaurant but everything else about it is perfect.  They offer traditional German fare at a very low price (especially with their lunch specials) and there is a beautiful mural painted along the back walls of the rolling hills of Germany.  If you are in NYC and looking for good German food this is the place to go!  Check out my lunch today!


Sunday, January 22, 2012

Fresh Direct

One of the most awesome things about living in NYC is grocery delivery.  You can get all sort of things delivered here from chinese food to shampoo but the very best delivery of all is groceries.  At www.freshdirect.com you can shop online for almost anything you can get in a standard grocery store, as well as prepared foods and bulk items, and they will bring it right to your door.  I've found that they are pricier than a standard grocery store but that I spend much less on groceries shopping this way because I don't have to walk by displays of cakes, cookies, candy bars, or other delicious items to get to the things I am there to buy.  I have very little will power when it comes to sweets so I love that I can avoid those things by ordering groceries online.
If you live in NYC or the surrounding area go check them out and place an order.  They are fantastic!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Dinner at Angus McIndoe

Last night we met my husband's aunt at a restaurant downtown called Angus McIndoe.  We had a great time!


The food was really delicious.  My husband had their conch chowder and I had their le burger superieur and we both thought they were excellent.  Our waitress was wonderfully attentive and the restaurant was lovely.  It was a little pricey but we had a gift card so it wasn't too bad.  The best part was that they were wonderfully understanding about our bringing the baby with us.  She stayed quiet the whole time and everyone made funny faces at her and told us how beautiful she is so we were very pleased that they were so understanding about having a baby in the restaurant.  If you are in the theater district and looking for a good place to eat I highly recommend it. 

Here we are enjoying dinner!  I put black bars over our faces for privacy purposes but this way you get to see the inside of the restaurant (and the baby in all her cuteness!)


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Discount Week and Other Fun Stuff

It looks like there is a ton going on this month in NYC!

First up is Restaurant Week.  This is a fabulous time to go to dinner someplace that would normally be out of your price range.  I personally suggest 21 Club or Bobby Van's for dinner because they are both delicious.  Then after dinner you can catch a half price Broadway show during Broadway Week!  Today started the New York Jewish Film Festival and currently you can see the caricature and satire exhibit Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  All of these things look fantastic for those people who aren't at home taking care of a newborn.  Please go out and experience the wonder of the city so that I can live vicariously through you.