Entries Tagged as 'west village'

Fun With Friends in NY & NJ

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

This week I am in New York for the Web 2.0 Expo. I flew out on Saturday and stayed with Jess out in Hoboken. We had a packed weekend, but I didn’t get to see Jess last time I was here and I was happy to come out early and see friends before the conference started.

On Saturday evening Kathy and Stephanie came over and we had wine and cheese at Jess’s apartment. It was really delicious, but the most impressive part is that Jess has been taking pottery classes and MADE all of these serving dishes and bowls.

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Hoboken, NJ

After a bit of wine and cheese we headed into the city to meet up with Jeanette for dinner at Ditch Plains. Jess had eaten a great dinner there recently so we all decided to try it. Walking to the restaurant was kind of bizarro because it’s located less than a half a block from the apartment where I lived for years. Everything mostly looked the same, except that this restaurant, I swear, used to be a shady trannie bar! Now it’s gorgeous inside. The menu is a bit strange. It seemed like one owner wanted to do comfort food (hotdogs, mac & cheese, sloppy joes) and one wanted to do seafood (4 kinds of mussels, seafood stew) so they just did both. Everything we had was very good.

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Rachelle & Jeannette :: Ditch Plains, West Village, Manhattan

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Jessica, Kathy, Stephanie :: Ditch Plains, West Village, Manhattan

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Clockwise: Jessica, Stephanie, Rachelle, Kathy, Jeannette

On the way home I noticed this Path train ad above Kathy’s head. Who decided that night was the night to ditch grandma’s drug stash?

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My Bestest Friends in New York

November 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Jeannette & Jessica
Jeannette & Jessica, West Village, Manhattan


On my last trip to New York we were told that the wait would be 20 minutes at Westville but we waited so much longer. So long that some of us went to Patisserie Claude and got pastries to eat while waiting in line. An then waited 20 more minutes. The line wasn’t moving at all so we just went around the corner and got diner food at Manatus.

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Must Be 25

June 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Must Be 25Last night our den mother, Frank, took us to Dublin 6 for drinks. We were teasing Jessie because he was leaving to go to some club and he said that no one under 25 is allowed inside. And then JZ, Alden and I went over to White Horse Tavern and this was the sign we saw. “Proper ID proving 25 years of age required for admission.” I was secretly hoping JZ would get carded, not because I didn’t want him to get in, but just to see how it would go down. He’s old enough to drink legally, but not old enough to go to White Horse Tavern.

We imagined that the policy was set so they don’t accidentally make a right turn and end up with a really young annoying crowd there, but at lunch today we were having a good discussion about the legality of it. Is it possible to say people under 25 can’t enter because they’re a private business? And then what if they said people of a certain race or religion couldn’t enter? Wouldn’t that be illegal? How is it different?

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Oddly Named Beers

June 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Smuttynose IPA
Smuttynose IPA :: Dublin6, West Vilage, Manhattan

Flying Dog
Flying Dog :: Dublin6, West Vilage, Manhattan

Lagunitas Pils
Lagunitas Pils :: The Other Room, West Vilage, Manhattan

A few unique beers I had while out on Thursday night. Frank took us out to Dublin6 to have some drinks with the design staff. A lot of people from FeedBurner joined as well as some friends of people who worked at FeedBurner. I had the Smuttynose IPA and the Flying Dog there. The Smuttynose was kind of similar to like a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I didn’t care for the Flying Dog, it was too hoppy. The bar had given it to me for free, so I guess nothing was lost.

Later on we were kicked out of the room we were in at Dublin6 because a bachelorette party was starting in there. So we left and went to The Other Room and that’s where I had the Lagunitas Pilsner. I liked it a lot.

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Back in New York

June 7th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Taj Restaurant
Musicians at Taj Restaurant, East Village, Manhattan

Not to confuse you because I still have photos from my Memorial Day weekend trip to New York, but I’m back in New York again, this time on business. Monday afternoon and night we all came together at Taj Restaurant on 6th Street, right in the heart of Indian Restaurant Row, which is on 6th between 1st and 2nd Avenues. The music was great but the service and ambiance was questionable. They did keep the Taj Mahal and Flying Horse beer flowing though, which was a good thing. The food was reasonably priced and was pretty tasty if you could break through the language barrier to get your order in!

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Don, Bar 82, East Village, Manhattan

Afterwards we had a few drinks at Bar 82 and then made the long walk back to our hotel, the craptacular Radisson on 48th/Lex. It’s not that bad, it’s just so random. Like the wallpaper is peeling in my room and there are only hooks and stains where the artwork used to be above the bed, yet my room has a flat screen TV and a Herman Miller Aeron chair.

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Vietnamese Coffee Granite with Vanilla Meringue, Spice Market, Meatpacking District, Manhattan

Tuesday was our first day at Google and was completely overwhelming with all of the information to take in. It’s really exciting to be working there officially. I think everyone is psyched. .. if only we can get our heads around everything. We had dinner at Spice Market, which I’d read so much about and was excited to try. It was about 100% fancier than the Indian restaurant that we’d been to the night before. The interior was really beautiful, if not over the top, and sort of Middle Eastern looking, while the cuisine was kind of Vietnamese/Thai/Indian. The Onion and Chili Crusted Short Ribs Egg Noodles and Pea Shoots was absolutely the standout dish of the night. I was expecting something like kalbi ribs, but it was the most tender bone-free beef I’ve ever eaten, I think. So delicious. For some reason I only took a photo of our desert. It was Vietnamese Coffee Granite with Vanilla Meringue. That night some people went out to the bar at the W, but I was so tired. I just stayed in and went to bed.

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Mini Beers, Bar 82, East Village, Manhattan

This is turning into a food blog of the week, but Wednesday night we had pizza at John’s on Bleecker. Later on we had a couple beers at some generic Irish pub in Midtown. Everyone was too tired to really put any effort into staying out, so I hit up Duane Reade for some shampoo because the stuff at the hotel stinks and then headed in for the night.

Everything is so overwhelming this week. I’m waiting for Friday and looking forward to nothing on Saturday. Sunday I’m flying back out here.

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