It’s Saturday night in the big apple. Right at this very moment I should be over the Atlantic, but due to the apocalypse that appears to have gripped London, my flight was cancelled. So instead, I’m gonna hang out with my blog and share with you this photo, which may not look all that appetising, but I won’t apologise because if there’s one thing you don’t want to be too neat? It’s a traditional cheese steak hoagie from Philadelphia.
When the snow flakes are a-falling outside, there ain’t no reason not to have ramen, even if you’re made to wait one hour for said ramen. This is often the case at New York’s Ippudo, reputedly one of the best ramen restaurants in town, where I met up with Ken for dinner last weekend. We thought we were being clever by showing up at 6.30pm, which is for all intents and purposes, pretty early for dinner, right? Right.
If you didn’t know better, you could easily walk right past this building on the corner of 1st and 10th in New York’s East Village, writing it off as no more than another derelict ghost of a shop. However, upon closer inspection, you might notice a solitary golden peach effortlessly perched in the centre of the door way, shiny and very orange, unlike the actual door to which it is attached.
It’s only this solitary peach that gives away the secrets that lie behind this unkempt fascade. This one peach, golden and rotund and presumably sweet and juicy, a single indication that somewhere behind this door lies the genius that is David Chang’s Momofuku Ko.
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Remember Top Treats? Top Treats is what happens when American Express and toptable get a little too friendly and create a baby whose 100% focus is to bring us good food and good value. And now they are going one step further to help brighten your holiday season – want to win £200 to spend on any Gordon Ramsay Restaurant?
Sure you do! And it’s easy!
God bless America. If there’s one country we can count on to not only double up on the fried chicken in their burger but hey, why not go all out and get rid of the bread all together – I mean, why not just make the chicken the bread – you know our US buddies would do it. And do it they did.
Check out KFC’s Double Down burger: bacon and cheese sandwiched by two pieces of original recipe or grilled chicken breast. No bread. Who needs bread?
It’s Friday night here in NYC and one work week is OVER. Awesomeness. It’s been a bit of a brain straining week and I’d been looking forward to taking it easy, wandering around this great little city on my own. Of course by “taking it easy”, I totally meant “go shopping”.