My husband and I went to see two Broadway plays in 2 days! We saw ‘Wicked’ and an Arthur Millers’ ‘A View from the Bridge’ starring Scarlett Johannson and Liev Schreiber. The hotel where we were staying was a brisk walk away from Broadway, and we were so glad we found it, it’s a really cool hotel.
In making the most of New York City, we have deemed this year our ‘Year of Great Restaurants and cool bars’, and what a better city to embrace our New Years resolution. Manhattan is bursting at the seems with great venues and it’s because the competition in New York makes everyone outshine the next. New York restaurants week began our resolution with night-time tirades. We picked a selection of super high-end venues. We ate like royalty for the entire week. One place was to the restaurant called Nobu, it was absolutely phenomenal. I had the eggplant special, which came with shrimp, scallops, spices and a miso soup, and my husband had artic charr with inaniwa with a crispy baby salad. For dessert we shared the warm bittersweet chocolate soup! Oh, and if you go, which we highly recommend, try the spiced pear martini’s, so good!
Afterwards we hit a little know cocktail bar in the West Village called ‘Employees Only‘, the neon sign ‘psychic’ is used to detract the riff-raff, all the while, those in the know slip past tarot cards and crystal balls. It’s straight from the 1920′s speakeasies. The host took our coats before we could blink. The cocktails were a classic piece of art, we just wished the prices stayed the same as back in the 20′s; very expensive. No matter what anyone says, it’s so tremendously satisfying to leave a bar that we entered seamlessly, only to find a line of needing people waiting in the snow just to get in; we felt so cool and happening.
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