Barney Greengrass

I tre merli / kimchi tacos

Brooklyn

Today we walked around in brooklyn. We got some sick doughnuts in a small french speaking bakery, I took a chocolate and earlgrey doughnut, rob took a dolce de lece with almonds. Then we kinda got lost in a not so recommendable  area, once back on our track "after a sketchy buss ride" we went in a small delicatessen. We had some Gehackte leber (chopped live with eggs and onions) a some pretty amazing bagels. 

Coffee

Every morning off our trip we started our day at this one coffee shop "9th street expresso" They only serve coffe and nothing else. The expresso there is quite the thing, it's ultra bitter but still enjoyable, the prefect kick start :)

NOBU

I'm just speechless, probably the best meal i've had so far.

Katz's / Clinton st bakery

Day two, we started our morning with a triple shot expresso, the only served coffe and nothing else. I will have to take a picture off next time. After this we headed towards the Clinton st bakery. People were already waiting in front of it so we got our name on the list (aprox an hour wait) and went for a walk around the block. This took us to some pretty cool places, we found a barbecue place that we are gonna hit up soon a pretty sweet skate shop and last but not least katz's delicatessen. Kats'z is one of the oldest delicatessen in new york, we took just one corned meet sandwich (pickled fleisch for the connoisseur). It was pretty mind blowing, my great grandma used to prepare it when I was a child and this place brought it back to me. After this little side track we turned back to our original destination and ordered more breakfast. Robert ordered some mexican things (some sort of tortilla toped with eggs guacamole chorizo and a lot of other stuf), I went for the pancakes. Once again the food was really good, i can't believe i'm saying that but it seems that it is way easier to find good food and at decent price in the states than back in europe.

Headquarter

here is a quick pick a our "headquarters" :)

Shake Shack

After our pizza dinner we went on a random walk around town that actually lead us to this place. It's a pretty known burger joint and was actually on our to do check list. We didn't have the indecency to take a burger there but we didn't try one of their shakes. I must say I was pretty nuts, I took what they call a cement shake (the shack attack),  it's was über thick, über chocolat  and my liver felt it pass. Albeit being one off the richest ice cream I have ever ordered it was still pretty good.

Lombardi's

For our first meal we decided to head for one off new york most known pizzeria. Pizzas there really live up to their reputation it has nothing to do with american standards. We took a 6 pieces pizza with the following toppings: pepperoni, italian meatballs, oven rosted peppers and garlics spinaches.

At first I thought  3 slices each wasn't gonna be enough but the pizza proved me wrong. Also I highly sugest you to take the Brooklyn Lager with your meal.

The place is pretty touristic but the service is pretty fast we only waited 20 minutes to get a table

Pizza del ammazza 

Travelling to NYC

After 3 hours delay at the boarding gate and an other hour and a half on the tarmac our plane finally decided to take off. We travelled with Continental, nothing special is to be mentioned about them. The plane seemed a bit shabby next to some other compagnie i've traveled with, you couldn't start a movie as you pleased on your personal screen, food was pretty bad, but you kinda get over it all after a couple Jin and Tonic.

Over cooked pastas with under cooked chicken cordon blue accompanied with its rancid ranch sallad

Salvation in a bottle