Day #28- Tuesday

Here we are, the last Tuesday of the trip. Only 3 more full days of NYC left! Wah!!!

That Collodial Silver worked, because Tuesday morning I woke up feeing much better. Still not 100%, but a definite noticeable difference. Thanks, Mom, for reminding me to get this!

Scott and I went to a late lunch at 3:00. We went to this noodle bar, called Momufuku. As I have a deep burning love for noodles, this was right up my alley. Scott and I split the prefix lunch menu, which consisted of a beef brisket bun, a bowl of duck ramen noodles with red miso broth, and chocolate truffle balls for dessert. We also ordered a side of shitake buns, and a bowl of heirloom tomatoes, because I also have a deep burning love for tomatoes.

OH. MY. GOODNESS.

This lunch was one of the best meals we'd eaten in the whole trip! Check it out:

These tomatoes were peeled, and accompanied with thin carpaccio beef slices, melon balls, and a savory chili vinaigrette. This is possibly the best tomato dish I have ever eaten. Complete deliciousness!

This is the beef brisket bun. The "bun" was actually a soft, chewy, wrap; it had the texture and thickness of a pancake. It was a delicious little chewy pillow, stuffed with fall apart tender brisket, bibb lettuce, and a tangy barbecue-like sauce. So delicate yet so much flavor!

Somehow, these shitake buns were even better than the brisket. Look at how fluffy those buns are!The shitakes were sautéed until crispy, which gave them a perfect chewy (but not rubbery, like mushrooms can sometimes be) texture. This was to die for!!!! Well, not literally, but they were little buns of heaven!

This is a duck egg, on top of a bowl of chewy, perfect ramen noodles, swimming in a salty red miso broth, and a few pieces of seared duck on top. I think that description alone should be enough to describe how incredible this dish was. Absolutely scrumptious! I could eat this every day and be happy :-)

Dessert was chocolate chip truffle balls.

This tasted like a ball of cookie dough. Which is good, because I love cookie dough! I can eat it by the spoonfuls out of the mixing bowl before I even get them into little balls and into the oven.

This lunch was absolute heaven. We'd both give it a 10/10. I would eat here again and again!

After this feast, we went back to the apartment to wrap up a few things at work. As it was raining again, and just a cold, yucky day in general, we stayed in until about 7:30. We then went to a little wine bar in the East Village that sold half price bottles of wine all night! It was called the Bourgeois Pig. We split a bottle of white wine, and it only cost $20! That is a steal in this city. The night before when we went to PDT, we each had one drink, and they cost $14 each. We spent more on 2 drinks at PDT than we did on a whole bottle of wine at the Pig.

After the wine, it was around 10:00 so we decided we should grab something for dinner. We had considered eating at the Pig... they had some awesome looking fondue trays. But after the bottle of wine, we decided we wanted something a little more substantial than a bowl of melted cheese. We went to Butter, which I had been wanting to go to since I always see the chef, Alexandra Guarnashcchelli on cooking shows on Food Network. She is one of the usual judges on Chopped, and has been on Iron Chef quite a number of times as well. Plus, the restaurant's name is Butter, so come on, we had to go here!

Well, the name of the restaurant turned out to be the best part about eating here. The food was average. I didn't even take pictures of it, so that should say something about it right there. I honestly can't even remember what we got- I guess the main point is that it wasn't memorable.

However, since we'd had such a fabulous lunch at Momofuku, and a nice bottle of wine for $20 at the Bourgeois Pig, we'd had a great day overall.