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… 

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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… 

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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… 

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