On Day 3 we headed to my new favorite area of New York for a
food tour at
Chelsea Market in the Meatpacking district. It is my new favorite area of NY not only because
Chase Crawford lives there but also because it is so stinking adorable. Chelsea Market is an old Nabisco factory turned food market that also houses the headquarters for the Food Network and other offices you may recognize (Google being one of them). It's hard to explain in writing but I highly recommend visiting (and doing the food tour) on your next trip to NYC. On our tour we were given a brief history of the building and visited several shops along the way to sample the foods they had to offer.
The outside of the building.
Even this map of all the shops in the market is adorable. We tasted Amy’s Bread, Eleni’s cupcakes, Ronny Brook
chocolate milk, Lobster Place chowder, Buon Italian, Chelsea Market Baskets
snacks, Sarabeth’s Bakery biscuits and “spreadable Fruit”,
Australian Tucks and
Macelleria
which was a butcher shop!
With our tour guide and a 29-year-old lobster...older than me!
Watching the chef make sushi at the Lobster Place.
Sarabeth's biscuits and spreadable fruit = DELICIOUS. I took some home and it was gone in a week. Annie bring me more!
Inside there was a waterfall that changed colors....
See?
We are holding cups of soup from Lobster Place. I had the lobster bisque. SO good.
A wall of recycled water bottles at Morimoto, the restaurant owned by Food Network "Iron Chef"
Masaharu Morimoto.
At Macelleria tasting pasta in the wine cellar which dates back to the Civil
War!
After walking through Chelsea Market we were guided to the
Highline which is an old above ground railroad tracks turned park. I mean who was the smarty pants who decided to turn railroad tracks into a park? (They told us who, but I forgot). Definitely worth seeing on your next trip to NYC!
As if we hadn't had enough food already, we continued our OWN food tour, trying out the famous
People’s Pops which I had been dying to try all weekend and just happened to have a shop inside Chelsea Market. Annie and I got ginger flavored something or another and Robin got Strawberry Rhubarb. They were yummy.
And of course we had to stop by the original
Magnolia Bakery on
Bleeker Street for a whoopie cookie and their delicious banana pudding. I don't think we were ever not eating on this day.
Then we ventured to the Upper West side for tea time
at
Alice’s Tea Cup where I bought a delicious pumpkin scone. They were too crowded to seat us so we took our tea and scones to-go and headed to
Levain Bakery
for softball sizes cookies which we ate in Central Park’s
Strawberry Fields.
That night we went to Annie's
church for mass before heading down to Union Square for
Fuerza Bruta, the weirdest show I've ever seen. For about the first half of the show we were all wondering what in the world we had gotten ourselves into. It was completely insane. The audience stands the entire show and it is interactive so the sets move around the floor and as the sets move, ushers move the audience. The entire show is set to music, no words, and in the beginning there is a man running on a treadmill and stage hands are throwing things at him and he continues to run and then he gets shot but continues to run and then all the actors start dancing and running around with confetti filled styrofoam blocks crushing them on random audience members heads and a huge clear tarp comes down from overhead and it rains on the tarp and girls slide and dance on the tarp and they lower it down so the audience can touch the tarp and at the end they raise the tarp and all of sudden it starts raining in the entire theater. We happened to be standing on the outskirts of the theater where it does not rain but Annie and I decided, what the heck, and jumped on in with all the crazy people. It was nuts and we were soaking wet by the end of it. This is us at the end with the lead actor who was running on the treadmill at the beginning of the show...
After the show we walked to
Coffee Shop for dinner where supposedly aspiring models are the servers and bartenders and then for dessert went to
Max Brenner’s Chocolate where I got this:
I don't even think I need to tell you how tasty this was.
On New York Day 4 I had to get up early to go home but Robin got up at
5:30am for standby tickets to see
Live With Kelly and ended up on the front row! I watched the show when I got back home and Robin made it on tv multiple times!
It was a whirlwind trip but so worth it. When I got home, Preston had surprised me by replacing part of the backsplash in our kitchen with bead board (which I have been wanting to do since we moved in). He started the project assuming he would finish but realized quickly it was no easy task and decided to start with a section of the kitchen to see if I even liked it. Well I loved it, so now we're working on finishing up the rest of the kitchen. Two walls down, one to go! Pictures of the remodel to come...
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