Yatagan

Yatagan is a filthy little Kebab place on Macdougal Street near NYU. I had a big, sloppy Döner Kebab sandwich on Pita covered in yogurt and hot sauce. Delicious, but impossible to eat without a fork... which is probably why it came with a fork sticking out of it.

Sidenote - this place houses the biggest spinning log of meat i have ever seen. Seriously. I don't think I could get my arms all the way around it. At least not without ruining my shirt.

Peep, SOHO

My writer and I had lunch at Peep in SOHO. I was a fan. It's a small Thai place on Prince near Macdougal i think. Fast, cheap, and tasty. I had Leek Spring Rolls and Chicken Pad Thai for about $10. Then we got loaded and went to a nudie bar for the rest of the day.

Risotteria

We were really hungry and this place was open. The lady liked it. Me not so much. I guess you have to like risotto to go to a place called "Risotteria."

Hummus Place - Upper West Side

Today was Labor Day, and it was beautiful out, so we just followed everyone to see what people do here when it's nice out and you don't have to go to work. It turns out, there's this MASSIVE park uptown. It's huge. It starts at about 59th St. and it must go for 50 blocks. Maybe even 51. Who'd have thunk there would be a big park right in the central part of Manhattan??

Anyway, we grabbed a lunch to-go on the way up at the Hummus place on Amsterdam and W74th. We ordered hummus and favas, beet salad, quinoa salad, and a side of falafel. Way too much food for two people, but we ate it anyway because there are starving kids in the Middle East that are so sick of eating hummus that they ship it all to New York.

Five Points

Dinner at Five Points. Another good one. We had a couple glasses of the pink wine. Do you like pink wine? I know I do. Dinner was an obscene grass-fed cheeseburger with some thick-ass bacon for the lady. And I had a baked pasta which was something like a deconstructed cheesy melty lasagna. And someone ordered the chocolate brioche bread pudding for dessert, which got eaten.

Brunch at Jane

Delice! Roasted Shrimp Huevos Rancheros. It was great. It had shrimp, which were roasted. And Huevos. I could't find the Rancheros anywhere. Maybe they were under the spicy red sauce.

Otto, New York

What was intended to be a light afternoon snack quickly turned into a pizza, salad, cauliflower and a full bottle of wine followed by a two-hour nap. Otto makey happy.

A Salt & Battery

This is probably a case of two people unwittingly stumbling into one of the most popular places in town thinking that they are the first to discover it. But like I said, we just got here a few days ago. I don't know if this is the most popular fish and chips place in town, but it probably could be. It was delicious. I'd drop an F-Bomb in front of delicious, but I'm trying to cut back on F-Bombs. I had the Haddock, she had the Cod. Both were great.

Kombit, Brooklyn.

Kombit is on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It is a Haitian Creole restaurant. Haitian. As in Haiti. I guess when they're not dodging hurricanes and social upheaval, Haitians like Creole food. I liked it. Creole shrimp, beans and rice, and fried plantains.

Joe's again.

I'm here again. And I'll probably come back tomorrow. Went for the fresh Mozzarella this time.