NYC. Day 2.

Day 2 and we were ready to revisit some of

our favorites. The East Village is home of one of

our favorite restaurants --Prune.

Lunch at Prune started off with this brilliant chicken noodle

soup. The broth was already rich, but the addition of

peppery sliced radishes, crispy chicken skin, and matzah balls

made the soup extra-special. We were so impressed when

our main dishes arrived, we simply forgot to photograph them.

Sorry folks. I had the pasta kerchief with French Ham, poached

egg, and pine nuts. Randy had bacon and orange marmalade

on pumpernickel. Both were so, so good. It was hard, but we

skipped dessert as we knew we wanted to stop by

il laboratorio for some of their inventive gelatoes.

After sampling the coconut, grapefruit, and pink pepper

gelatoes, we stopped by Upper Rust. This fantastic

East Village shop is loaded with all sorts of interesting

things. No purchases, but we certainly had fun looking.

Upper Rust photos via nyportaits and knack studios.
Obscura came later with its overwhelming display
of antiques and oddities.
This would be part of the oddities.

This painting caught our eye, but its

price tag did not.

Loved this Lindbergh portrait as well.

A corner of Obscura -- just to give you an idea. We did

buy two pairs of 1920's boxing gloves. You'll see those later.

We finished off the East Village with Momofuku's Milk Bar.

If you haven't already heard about Martha Stewart raving

about this place, or Anderson Cooper's Crack Pie addiction --

then let me tell you, this place is the deal! So many decisions,

so we decided to create a little "care package" for our hotel

room. Here's what we included: Birthday Cake Truffles,

Compost Cookie (pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats,

butterscoth, and chocolate chips), blueberry and

milk crumb cookies, and an amazing corn cookie

(made with corn powder and corn flower). Oh yeah--

a piece of Anderson's favorite Crack Pie. Swoon, swoon!

That's for both the pie and Mr. Cooper.

We headed back to our room at the Iroquois

for a little rest and a shower before dinner

at Beppe. I had the "Butcher's Spaghetti" with

crumbled pork, garlic, chianti, rosemary and tomato.

Randy had the Tagliatelle with sea scallops and saffron.

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Tomorrow we hit the Flatiron District and see

Kelsey Grammer in the Tony Award-winning

La Cage aux Folles!