Monday, December 18, 2006
Good food in Midtown East and a friend in town
I just had what I think of as a "New American style" lunch, meaning the core was roast chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans and cole slaw but surrounded by a stuffed vine leaf and mixed peppers. All this and a cup of decaf hazelnut coffee for $6.47 at a buffet restaurant whose exact name and location I'll reveal on my next post. Mostly I've been eating Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish (Oh, the crema catalan) but finally got hungry for the old familiar food, especially the sweet potatoes.
The artist Theresa Ramey who lived in Guanajuato for three years until the end of 2003 is in the Bronx visiting her middle son. Today we met to eat Chinese soup laced with shrimp, beef and pork, then went down to Chelsea where we gallery hopped galleries with contemporary work, Theresa filling in just the right amount of explanation, and finally topped the day off by sharing a vegetarian platter of garbanzos, rice, veggies, salad and rotis (warm flatbread) from an Indian takeout near Jon's apartment.
Theresa's heart problems seem under control and she is doing new work, smaller than the canvasses she used to lug around from place to place, made of lots of little short strokes. It was wonderful for me to connect with an old friend in the City of Cities. As Theresa, had already told me about the free Fridays evenings at the Museum of Modern Art, by now I've been to MOMA twice.
The artist Theresa Ramey who lived in Guanajuato for three years until the end of 2003 is in the Bronx visiting her middle son. Today we met to eat Chinese soup laced with shrimp, beef and pork, then went down to Chelsea where we gallery hopped galleries with contemporary work, Theresa filling in just the right amount of explanation, and finally topped the day off by sharing a vegetarian platter of garbanzos, rice, veggies, salad and rotis (warm flatbread) from an Indian takeout near Jon's apartment.
Theresa's heart problems seem under control and she is doing new work, smaller than the canvasses she used to lug around from place to place, made of lots of little short strokes. It was wonderful for me to connect with an old friend in the City of Cities. As Theresa, had already told me about the free Fridays evenings at the Museum of Modern Art, by now I've been to MOMA twice.
Labels: buffets, ethnic restaurants, New York City
