Saturday morning started with taking Adele and Paddy to Doughnut Plant. Who would have thought heaven was just two blocks from Patrick's apartment. I wrote about this place the last time I went to NYC - deliciously sumptuous, made-with-love doughnuts - made from all organic, all natural ingredients. Mine was a Italian plum jelly-stuffed vanilla glazed...yum.
Later in the morning, after picking up Wee P (he needed a little more beauty sleep), we headed off on a walking tour of NYC. Starting with brunch in Nolita at Public...the restaurant established by a bunch of Antipodeans and a head chef who worked with Peter Gordon at The Sugar Club and Providores. It was delicious and the Bloody Mary was the BEST I have ever had.
Everything in the restaurant is carefully curated and designed - from the retro menu clipboards, to the typeface, yellowed mock-aged paper stock that everything is printed on, to the very cool light fittings and furniture. A class act.
The Fry-up...
On the way we wandered by the New Museum of Art on the Bowery
Out of a building in front of me walked Peter Bromhead 2 - I nearly yelled out to him thinking it was Peter - his mannerisms were dead pan - he was just missing his little dog!
Really wish this place was open...it was very ME!
The following shot shows a woman on the subway platform...but she was actually on the other platform - behind the moving train. The speed of the train, the spacing of the windows on the train - or something! - caused a pretty cool effect...
We took the Subway up to Central Park and went wandering in the Sheep Meadow
And took in some live music
Check out the double horns...
Outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
We wandered upon a street festival
We stopped en-route for some Mexican tacos at The Diner (it's about as hard to get a reservation at this place as it is at El Buli
Across the street at an architectural exhibit...
Later that evening Panda and I went to the Met to see Don Giovanni (thanks Paddy SO much for the ticket!)
We headed back to the Lower East Side and joined Wee P and his mates at his neighboring bar - across the street from his apartment - where he was celebrating the birthday with some cups of vodka. The Toy Co bar serves cocktails in cups and beers in brown bags..!
Sunday, while the birthday boy recovered Panda and I headed over to Brooklyn to go to the Brooklyn Flea Market - a rather cool flea market I'd read about on the internet, filled with vintage, new, and remade...I fell in love with this chair
Mini cup cakes..
A great little snack from the Mexican tacqueria stand
This stall is from two women calling themselves Nightwood - they go around NYC at night pulling used furniture off the sidewalks, before the trash collectors get it, and then they remodel and recreate new pieces.
Vintage fabrics just waiting to be reloved...
A rather novel way to display magazines, as spotted on the Lower East Side
Chinatown smoking - and live prawns literally jumping out of their buckets
Art was everywhere - old, new, new old...
By chance we even wandered by the famous Banksy art piece. Banksey is a very famous, once underground (now somewhat of a celebrity) graffiti artist from London - who was recently spotted in NYC...
Thanks NYC!
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