New York City
 

Went to NYC on March 19/20.

First was Vision Expo East.
Saw Randy Jackson hawking his frame line.

Saw some wild new frame styles

More!

Never been to NYC. :(

For Pooka

This was my first time outside of the Jacob Javitz Center (for Vision Expo) and Chaperoning a bussed 6th grade field trip to the UN/Museum of Natural History (where they shot Night At The Museum)

We ate dinner at Thalidomide's Chlamydia's Felidia's, owned by Lidia Bastianich, from PBS and The Food Network.

Then we went to The Top of the Rock (the roof of 30 Rockerfeller Center, where they do Saturday Night Live) to see the SUPERMOON!
It was frigid.

Empire State Building

Cool! What did you have for dinner? Did you like it?

I have been to Lidia's restaurant in Pittsburgh and it was fantastic. Hands down best fried calamari. I bet the NY location would be good, too

Time Square at 12:30 am

It was only OK. It was as though they took a normal-type dish, and had to make it exotic. Example: pasta with shrimp, scallops, and crab... yum.... then they added OCTOPUS! Yuck. I had paparelle with duck and 'shrooms. I wish I had chosen the wedding pillows (ravioli) filled with pear. Odd sounding, but it tasted good. The veal filet mignon was tasty and tender, but that can mess up my belly. The gnocchi was ok. The wedding pillows filled with cheese and citrus rind were not good.

Menu

The tiramisu was about 2" square with no lady fingers. Disappointing.

If you wanted truffles on your dish, it was an extra $99/$129/$159 per serving, depending on the type of truffle you chose. :eek:

10 am Times Square, in line for half price tickets

At the base of a light pole. :p:

A bronze statue in front of a store.

The Stage where we saw The Addams Family, starring Bebe Neuwirth
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010...h--300x400.jpg
As Mortitia, and Roger Rees

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopo...binColcord.jpg
As Gomez. Funny, that they both appeared in Cheers.

The show was funny, I'd recommend it.

Then we went home.

Bravo! Thanks! :)

Robin Colcort, I think Rebecca had the hots for him on Cheers.

And the teacher fainted! ;) I have to tell you though, most of those glasses frames make me shudder. I mean, that neon green, or the ones with mismatched eye shapes? Those look so 80s to me. Please tell me the 80s aren't coming back.

OMG, I thought we were done with the 80s "revival" Those frames are horrible.

I thought they look super cool and cute! :lol: I wouldn't wear them though. :p:

I was thinking the frame with one square lens and one circular lens would feel funny - at least until yout got used to it. Even if the bridge or the arms on your glasses aren't straight, everything feels out of kilter.

Disclaimer: I didn't buy anything that I photographed - they were the outrageous ones, wouldn't sell here.

What's back is the sixties. Almost every vendor showed a "vintage" collection. Styles like:

http://www.topnews.in/light/files/John-Lennon_3.jpg
http://www.allynscura.com/images/henry.kissinger.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PyLMuPTK6M...uddy_holly.jpg
http://www.nndb.com/people/182/000032086/hl1-sized.jpg
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/pho...89-500-282.jpg

Yeah, that's a weird one. Makes me think of someone with a brain injury, with one pupil blown.

Yes, I'm selling lots of the vintage look.

My mom wore glasses like that in the 80s. And ones in the shape of the word LOOK. She used to wear one red and one blue shoe too. And had one pink curl over her cheek. I was so embarrassed. And then I got over it and stored up tips to embarrass my own children. :lol:

Oh Spex I ADORE the cats eye ones.
Esp the torties :)
I want!
I have the only glasses I could get FOC when I wasn't working - Dana and Limey say they suit me but I crave those beautiful ones. Luckily, no store near me stocks them...

Thanks for the pics and the update.
Do take your camera with you when you eat in future!

On the way home I thought I should have taken pics of foods and loos.

BTW, brunch on Sunday was in an "authentic" Irish Pub. Tasty black & tans and fish & chips, but the fish & chips were not served in newspaper. Harumph!

Fish and Chips? Wiki on "Black & Tan" Sound more like an English Pub. Newspaper was only for takeout.

Monster has it right.

However I doubt traditional Irish food would be paletable to modern tastes.
My Great Grandad grew up on boiled bacon bones and cabbage, black pudding and soda bread to hear it told.

They claim to be a "traditional Irish watering hole"
http://www.patrickconways.com/about.html

I've been served F&C on newspaper in a restaurant.

Obviously, we Merkins will believe anything is authentic, even Epcot.;)

No shame on you for believing it. I honestly thought that Dominos Pizza was representative of all American pizza. Until an American told me otherwise. It's how they sell themselves over here.

Modern Irish food is pretty much the same as any food from the British Isles. Expect to see fresh seafood, beef, lamb and fusion (ie being influenced by India and the Far East). Pleased to see Irish sausage and black pudding make an appearance. No baked beans though. And Eggs Benedict would puzzle the auld farmers :)

Traditional Irish food relied heavily on carbohydrates - potatoes are a given but also barley and legumes. Meat was stretched as thin as it could possibly last and salted meat was the cheapest to procure and the easiest to stretch.

I've been to Ireland a couple of times. This place is not authentic, but it really isn't that bad because the flavour is there. It's just tweaked to the taste of the customers. I can hardly turn my nose up; I've eaten real Chinese food and found it almost inedible. And real Indian food which I found delicious, but too hot to eat on a regular basis. Cuisines adapt, it's how they spread.

No doubt our border Dwellars would froth at the mouth at my idea of Mexican food :biggrinba

gimmick. No real Brit would waste good bogpaper like that when you could use a plate that you can wash and use again. :D

When I was in Britain for a few weeks many years ago, I had F&C once. From a truck. Actually, I guess it would have been a lorry, since we were in England. And it was served in a funnel of newspaper and was very greasy. Disgusting, to be honest. We were by the ocean.

Yeah. That stuff's for tourists only. (Van)

I coudn't find the clip of Mick Dundee eating a hotdog from a vendor.....

The problem with fish and chips is when it's nasty, it's really nasty. It's not one of those "can't go wrong" things.

Yeah. I had some at Iron Hill Brewery where it seemed that the oil got trapped between the breading and the fish. It was a runny, yucky mess.

Don't trust any F&C in the USA. It's like don't trust any cheesesteak outside the Philly area. The nearest proper F&C is in Bermuda.

You people and your cheesesteaks!!!!!

batter, breading is for children.

But then you have to say "battered fish" and I feel really sorry for the fish in a bad domestic situation. :fishsmilie:

And Mexicans too.

:fish:

Great photos spex

It's New York!

I want those!

:lol2:

r u sry about their fingers, though?

(fish sticks = fish fingers in the UK. Breaded, not battered. usually/preferably. ime/o)

Charlie & Lola talk about fish fingers, and Minifob hates it. He insists on over-enunciating it to "fish fin-gerz" to half-correct them.