speaking of food...

We had lots of great food while we were in NYC. Just quickly, some of our food stops:

• Shake Shack on the UWS
• Crumbs for cupcakes. Panic attack moment when it appeared the UWS outpost had moved and wouldn't be open until July 1 - fortunately, old store a block or so away was still open and we were able to procure red velvet, vanilla, hostess, and cookie dough 'cakes without incident. Except later, when Heidi was eating her cookie dough cupcake and discovered this weird, chocolatey fudge center. "It's staring at me!!"
  
  
• Pigalle for dinner pre-Mamma Mia! Where the words "raspberry sorbet" escaped my lips completely on their own volition because I had meant to order lemon.


• Nice Matin for the Best Waffle in the Universe (they don't list them that way in the menu, but they should, I tell you. They should.)


• A Salt and Battery for fish and chips (and yes. We went there just for the name.) We had a bit of a Venice flashback here, because the guy behind the counter was so intent on the World Cup match he was watching, we had to wait to place our orders until there was a break in the action. The adorable English guys next door at Tea & Sympathy were also watching the game - but on a Spanish tv station. I guess soccer is a universal language.


• Bagels and lox and shmear at a place on the UWS (79th and Amsterdam, I think) because we thought that they would probably throw us out of Manhattan otherwise. Don't they check your blood-cream cheese levels at the airport now??


• Max Brenner's Chocolate Bar OMG, OMG, OMG. The man has his own chocolate philosophy and his own gift shop. How could I not love this place??
  

My "Eighties Milkshake" including vanilla rum ice cream, and chocolate and probably some other things too, with an artful chocolate shell (a milkshake with a shell!! Squee!) and served in the "Alice" glass (the other side says "Drink Me" Too right I will!) BEST. MILKSHAKE. EVER. I may or may not have purchased an Alice glass of my own to keep forever and ever.

Heidi's treat involved creating her own popsicle using the above shown vanilla ice cream bar and her own little assortment of fixings. We may or may not have used our spoons to just eat the chocolate in that little bowl.

• Dinner at Landmarc in the Time Warner building with Cara, my lovely former college roommate, now a high-powered New York attorney.