12 June 2004
You know you're eating at a good restaurant when you feel you've been transported elsewhere.
Based off of Robert Sietsema's recommendations in the Village Voice, Suzanne and I ate at Bianca's today, which is located at 5 Bleecker Street. I highly recommend this place because the seafood is delicious and the decor is lovely. Suzanne ordered the calamari/seafood dish while I ordered an appetizer of mussels because I had eaten quite a bit at lunch (more about that later). The decor was very Newport, Rhode Island-esque--white-painted wood, blues, candlelight. Quite an ambiance. The food arrived very quickly; most likely, this was because we ate at 7.
And man, oh man, was the food just plain good. My mussels, the menu said, were cooked in a white wine sauce. I could also taste olive oil, garlic, and basil. Isn't that really all you need? Usually I shy away from mussels because they taste so fishy, but these tasted like real meat, you know? No fishiness evident at all. As for Suzanne's fried seafood... Robert wasn't lying when he called it a paragon. The batter was wonderfully done, just the right amount of saltiness and bay leaf.
Okay, now that I am done gushing about food--it's time to gush about Ikea! Which is actually, now that I think about, a lot like gushing about food. How about if I summarise: it made me want an apartment, just so I could buy all of Ikea and stuff it into the apt. Also the food was quite good for the price..
After Ikea, we headed to H&M, then Suzanne and I wandered around the East Village, Chinatown, and Soho. I do so love wandering.
An aside: anyone else been seeing a lot of instances of 'wondering' instead of 'wandering'? People are committing heinous crimes of word misusage.
Based off of Robert Sietsema's recommendations in the Village Voice, Suzanne and I ate at Bianca's today, which is located at 5 Bleecker Street. I highly recommend this place because the seafood is delicious and the decor is lovely. Suzanne ordered the calamari/seafood dish while I ordered an appetizer of mussels because I had eaten quite a bit at lunch (more about that later). The decor was very Newport, Rhode Island-esque--white-painted wood, blues, candlelight. Quite an ambiance. The food arrived very quickly; most likely, this was because we ate at 7.
And man, oh man, was the food just plain good. My mussels, the menu said, were cooked in a white wine sauce. I could also taste olive oil, garlic, and basil. Isn't that really all you need? Usually I shy away from mussels because they taste so fishy, but these tasted like real meat, you know? No fishiness evident at all. As for Suzanne's fried seafood... Robert wasn't lying when he called it a paragon. The batter was wonderfully done, just the right amount of saltiness and bay leaf.
Okay, now that I am done gushing about food--it's time to gush about Ikea! Which is actually, now that I think about, a lot like gushing about food. How about if I summarise: it made me want an apartment, just so I could buy all of Ikea and stuff it into the apt. Also the food was quite good for the price..
After Ikea, we headed to H&M, then Suzanne and I wandered around the East Village, Chinatown, and Soho. I do so love wandering.
An aside: anyone else been seeing a lot of instances of 'wondering' instead of 'wandering'? People are committing heinous crimes of word misusage.
i have seen a couple misused "wonderings" and also a lot of incorrect "to" instead of "too" and "their/there" mixups. also at work a nurse corrected me when i was telling a girl that the noun for immersing something in water is "immersion"... she was convinced it was "emersion" which has quite the opposite meaning. being an old grammar queen, i must say that these things pain me greatly.
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