The Brooklyn Local

Wow I was pretty impressed with The Brooklyn Local event by City Harvest. The event was to raise money for City Harvest (City Harvest works with greenmarkets and restaurants to take their food that usually would go to waste and gives them to the needy).

I was impressed by how organized the event was and it never felt too crowded even with the 75 local food vendors. Looking forward to next year.

Matt placing more Chicken & Waffles cupcake

Fig cake w/ goat cheese buttercream, balsamic gastrique & prosciutto

Ian attacking a Chicken & Waffles cupcake

Sea Bean Goods

Trio of soup shots from Sea Bean Goods

Pie from Four & Twenty Blackbirds

Roast beef sandwich from The Meat Hook

Whimsy & Spice

Slider from DuMont

New Amsterdam Market Ice Cream Sunday

This past Sunday was the 2nd Annual New Amsterdam Market Ice Cream Sunday. Besides getting to see some friends (La Newyorkina and Steve's Ice Cream), I was finally able to try The Bent Spoon. I have heard so much GREAT things about them and their ice cream did not disappoint (planning a trip to Princeton soon). Actually every tiny scoop of ice cream I had from all the vendors were great.

Cotton Candy From Liddabit Sweets

Liddabit Sweets selling cotton candy at the New Amsterdam Market and Jen looks like she's in a giant space bubble.

Montauk

After 7 years of talking about making the trip out to Montauk, I finally made it! I think what I really wanted to do what to see the lighthouse and also to just get out of the city. Anh, Howard and I started our trek around 8am and didn't get to Montauk till 11am. First thing we did was to get some breakfast then followed by some beach time. I hate the beach and sand actually but it wasn't so bad. I pretty much laid under the umbrella and read. After the beach we drove over to the lighthouse and hiked around there. Before going back to the city, we had dinner at a restaurant called 668.

Overall it was a fantastic day trip but Montauk is super expensive.