Hello. Hope all of you are doing fine : ) Yesterday I met up with an old friend to catch up and we had lunch at Petite Abeille. I’ve been there once before and the food was amazing but we had to wait for it forever. This time we had better luck. The restaurant was…
My Belated Birthday Dinner at La Mangeoire
When picking a restaurant for my belated birthday dinner, I naturally gravitated toward French food. Duh. My first choice was Balthazar but apparently reservations there have to be made far in advance. So I decided on La Mangeoire – a Provencal-style bistro in Midtown. The décor there is rustic. The walls are decorated with lovely…
Veselka, East Village, NYC
Hello there! My sister and I had dinner at Veselka tonight. Veselka (Ukrainian for ‘rainbow’) is a Ukrainian café in the East Village. I was drawn to it because of the name, here’s the story – Lily and I often use the term ‘Durdom Veselka’ (rus.-Veselka Mental Asylum) to describe an out of control situation…
Red
Saturday, September 5th, was my friend Dina’s birthday. She asked me to pick a place to go to dinner and requested Mexican. My first choice was Dos Caminos but all the tables for Saturday were booked. Then I came across Red, a Tex-Mex restaurant in the South Street Seaport, which turned out to be a…
Petite Abeille
This Wednesday I had dinner at Petite Abeille on West 17th St. My memory fails me now but I’m pretty sure I first heard about this place on the Travel Channel and have been wanting to try it ever since. Petite Abeille – “little bee” – is a Belgian café, which has been open for…






