Day 3, the final day in NYC! More walking, more exploring, more great food, and more blisters! Eric joked that I had more moleskin on my feet than an ultra marathoner. A word of advice: Do not break in shoes on a trip to NYC!
We picked up a few Christmas gifts at FAO Schwarz, a huge toy store filled with neat things.
Fish’s Eddy…a really cool kitchenware store!
It’s too bad I couldn’t pack much in my suitcase or this store could have been trouble!
I love all of their bright coloured dishware.
Then we ended up at the Union Square Market.
What a GREAT market! This was so much fun.
I picked up something I’ve been looking all over my hometown for…Smoked Paprika!
We got some HOT mulled apple cider. I burned my tongue over all the excitement.
After the market, it was time to eat again! Walk and eat. Eat and walk. This time, we had lunch at Angelica Kitchen.
Eric ordered the cold apple cider and I ordered a veggie juice.
Mid-drink I realized there was a celebrity sitting outside the restaurant! It’s Liev Schreiber from X-men & other films. He was on his cell phone for a good 30 mins or so.
We actually had no idea what his name was so we sent the pic to a friend who quickly identified him for us. :)
I read that his mom raised him a vegetarian, so maybe he had been dining in the restaurant?
To start, we shared the Agrarian Salgado made up of baked rounds of mashed Yukon Gold potatoes and herbed seitan with a parsley-almond pesto centre; topped with dill-tofu sour cream & garnished with piquant marinated kale.
Oh my word this was fantastic!!! One of our fav dishes of the entire trip! It tasted just like a croquette, but only better. The dill sauce was outstanding too.
We also got some sourdough on the side with onion butter.
For Eric’s main, he ordered one of the specials- “Tales of the Onion” made up with savoury quinoa-vegetable croquettes with b’nut squash, carrots, celery, and chopped parsley; crowned with tarragon cream and served over green split pea sauce. It also came with broccoli and roasted turnips garnished with tatsoi and radicchio.
He raved about this dish…as did I. The croquettes were really flavourful and crispy and the sauces went lovely with the dish.
I ordered off the special menu too- the “A-meze-ing Stories” which is a Mediterranean meze plate featuring an assortment of vegetables including grilled portobello and button mushrooms red & green peppers, onions and carrots served with a creamy white-bean basil pate, baked garlic chips, and a spelt-berry salad tossed with a hazelnut kalamata olive-caper pesto. With Brussels sprouts and arugula too. That was a mouthful!!
It was also incredible. I thought the hazelnut olive caper pesto was a really fun idea for a pesto. Normally, I’m not a big olive fan, but I really enjoyed it.
Wait, I just remembered I had more with my meal! A side of sea vegetables and quinoa. :)
With “no room left for dessert”, we each enjoyed some tea before heading out to explore the rest of the afternoon.
However, SOMEHOW we ended up stuffing our faces with vegan baked goods not long after!! I really have no idea how this happened…
Hello Babycakes!
This was our second stop into Babycakes.
It’s a little hole in the wall down some random side street…it took us a while to find it! The interior is really cute, but they have a sign saying no pictures.
I’ve heard great things about the Babycakes’ apple toastie bread as well as the doughnuts, so I picked up an Apple Cranberry Toastie, pumpkin cupcake, and a chocolate crunch doughnut.
Apple cran toastie:
They were all delicious. I think my fav was the toastie bread and Eric’s was the doughnut. Very fresh and sweet, but not overly so. We shared the doughnut and then saved the rest for later…
I also had something else on my list to try from Atlas Cafe in East Village. This is such a fun cafe with a HUGE menu written all over the walls in chalk.
Then, somehow this happened…
We shared a pumpkin cupcake from Babycakes and a Peanut Butter BOMB Brownie (added to clarify about the brownie: by Vegan Treats) as found in Atlas Cafe.
OMG….that brownie!!!!! Check it out.
Here is a better picture of it:
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It’s made up of a thin and dense brownie base topped with a cloud-like peanut butter mousse, a chocolate shell, and a peanut butter drizzle. Heaven.
This brownie is on my must make list. It was one of the best things we tasted on the trip, hands down.Eric doesn’t even like peanut butter and he could not stop gushing over this brownie. If you are near Atlas Cafe anytime soon you gotta order a PB bomb brownie as soon as possible. You won’t regret it!
We ended the trip with a great meal at Pure Food & Wine, followed by a stop at a bar on the way home. It was a great finish to the trip.
For just 3 days, I think we really packed in a lot! Literally. ;)
Has anyone seen my elastic waist pants?
All this food looks amazing. Not a single thing in this post I’m not drooling over! I really need to get to some of these places next time I’m in the city. Glad you had such a great trip!
The BOMB brownie is from Vegan Treats bakery in Bethlehem, PA. Atlas doesn’t make their desserts. They order them from Vegan Treats.
Thanks for clarifying, I’ve added that into the post.
oooh those do look good:)
You must have a very high metabolism! Don’t fret about elastic pants, my dear, you’ll be fine! It’s only a vacation, and you will be back to your work-out routines and regular cooked meals. I have to remind myself of this every time I go on a trip with my family somewhere (like my very go-out-to-eat grandparents in LA).
Looks like you had heaps of fun! I want to go to NYC someday, and check out Baby Cakes! I’ll take lots of donuts!!! :-)
yea I dont worry much on vacation…it’s a once and a while indulgence. We were also walking for literally hours and hours a day so we were constantly hungry every few hours.
Such beautiful pictures! NYC is definitely on my must visit places.
babycakes sounds amazing!! A Gluten free friend of mine has their cookbook too. …also, i love Liev Shrieber!!! such a fan!!! He’s also married to Naomi WAtts if i am not mistaken..??? One more thing, I have smoked paprika by McCormick’s..u can TOTALLY get it!!! ( i think i got it at Longo’s here in Ontario) have a safe trip home!
That looks so delicious. I love peanut butter brownies. This is making me want to go back to NY again sooner than I had intended.
All of your eats look INSANE!!!!!! The Union Square market is amazing!! I just love NYC. :) I would have been all over the $.99 flatware sale! What a fun trip!
That kitchen store looks AWESOME! I’ll be in NYC in a few weeks–definitely want to stop by there!
Everything looks so amazing! I’ve never seen that donut before at my local Babycakes, I love texture so that looks sooo good!!! Glad you had a nice trip!
You sure lived it up Ang! That is all that counts…Well done. :) thanks for sharing your trip with us, I want to go NOW!
Your eats were amazing and Now that dessert…..that is what it is all about, the lil moments that you will not forget! (Remember Eric that time in NY when I got so many blisters and then we ate those desserts!)
I feel so sheltered :( LOL I have loved every NYC day blog you have written. I truly felt like I was there minus the delish food and naked cowboys!
You packed a TON into 3 days….wow!
That last brownie…worth the trip right there.
“t tasted just like a croquette, but only better. The dill sauce was outstanding too.” – that’s not even something I’d normally gravitate toward but it looks so good!
And Fish Eddy’s…could spend a fortune on cute dishes.
FUN trip!
oh I am so jealous!!!! Montreal has good options but not like that!!! wow… :)
What a wonderful vacation! I’ve been wanting to go to NYC so badly! Maybe one day for New Years Eve, that would be my ultimate dream. Haha. :)
AHHHHHHHHH!!! Atlas is my FAVORITE! I went to NYU, so it was always just around the corner. I’m afraid to think about how many of those brownies (as well as the peanut butter bomb CAKE) I have eaten in my day. SO SO good!!
haha that’s amazing! I’m glad that you enjoyed them too!
Wow! Everything looks amazing and delicious! I buy smoked paprika at European markets in Mississauga and they even have it at Winners! :-)
good to know, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed some of my favorite places in the city! Just want to make sure you know the peanut butter bomb brownie (and cake, and many others at atlas) are from the holy mecca that is Vegan Treats in Bethlehem, PA :) Just want to give Danielle credit because that woman is truly amazeballs.
oh I didn’t know that Elise…I’ll add that in :) Tks!
With all the wonderful photos, I would have guessed you would have been there much longer! Yoga pants…all the way! That last dessert picture and description made my mouth water…oh my!!! :)
Fish’s Eddy I need to go to. I am such a sucker for themed kitchenware. Slash Ugly Dolls are such a throwback to middle school — I haven’t seen one in forever! Haha.
Love reading this! I am a NYCer (from the east village), so it’s cool to see a tourist at all my local spots :) Angelica Kitchen is amazing! Also, (not so) fun fact, Atlas Cafe was closed by the sanitation department… apparently they had mice and stuff. HOWEVER you will be happy to know that they get their sweet treats from elsewhere (as Elise said above), so you are safe =p
You really hit all the best places, going to the farmer’s market & Fish’s Eddy too. Glad you had such a great trip!