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The July custard calendar is up!  We tried to predict the flavors last night, thinking there would be an abundance of fruit flavors and may...

Beach Bound.  No, not me.  For lunch today, I got the "Beach Bound" - one of the summer seasonal salads at Just Salad. Th...

After lunch , we continued wandering around Barcelona on our "adjustment day."  We went over to Las Ramblas, the famous pedestria...

June was a light custard month for us since only a few of them were new.  (We like Shake Shack custards but it's probably better for our...

We got a late start on our first full day in Barcelona because we were exhausted from traveling and still suffering from jet lag.  After o...

Our last new custard this month was the Wednesday custard - blackberry buttermilk. M's thoughts : First, I loved the color o...

I am afflicted with migraines from time to time. Some of them, I have found, are caused by my apparent addiction to caffeine. Because of th...

We arrived at our hotel in Barcelona around midnight and after getting settled, wanted to look for a bite to eat.  We had read in our trav...

Our flight from Amsterdam to Barcelona was relatively short (a few hours).  It was a late flight and after our day trip, we were quite tire...

Our last meal on the Amsterdam segment of our trip was back at Schiphol Airport at the Mediterranean Sandwich Bar.  Traveling seems to make...

On our last trip to The Netherlands, we did everything we could to try pretty much every fry shop we walked by. It was no surprise that wh...

One of our favorite places in Hell's Kitchen for a casual dinner is Farmers Rotisserie.  Over a year ago, I wrote about the delicious ...

Over the years that we've lived in Hell's Kitchen, we have been to Chai Thai (55th & 8th) a number of times, especially after...

It was hot today - 96, felt like 100, at lunch - which made me not want to eat anything other than popsicles (happy about the Clinique-...

When it feels like 100 degrees out, popsicles are a priority.  Luckily, Clinique has been teaming up with the Sweetery truck yesterday ...

This is a post I was supposed to write a very long time ago. El Rey Del Sabor is a Mexican food cart that M and I both love a lot. Every y...

Today I went to Jean Georges for lunch with some of the summer associates at our firm.  A and I have previously gone to Nougatine, the mor...

The Chinese Mirch truck has been roaming the streets of Midtown for a bit, but I never had a chance to try it until today.  They specialize...