by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Showing posts with label nathalie's restaurant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nathalie's restaurant. Show all posts
morgana was having a twelfth night theatre meeting with a half birthday get together for a friend all in one night so greg and i decided to stay out longer after driving back home from connecticut. we went out to eat at my friend's friend's restaurant machiavelli's. we had been here before about a year ago.
i had the goose liver special! they were very good. i had never had goose livers before.
we also had the special dessert: an apple heart tart with vanilla ice cream.
nathalie's french press coffee is amazing!
i think the coffee with cream was actually my favorite part of the meal!
it was another beautiful day and after picking up a bag of gifts from our friends who had seen morgana, greg and i went to third street for chanda's music hour.
i was going to put the movie up, but supposedly it's too big of a file to upload onto the blog. i then tried sharing it onto youtube, but my account isn't letting me sign in from the home computer. i'll have to ask greg for help when he gets back.
(it's now the middle of july and i finally got it posted . . funny how things can suddenly work out once a little time goes by. i have no idea what i did differently from when i tried in march.)
greg and i had dinner uptown at a friend's restaurant. she has a special pasta chef so the pasta was amazing (greg had strazzopreti with broccoli rabe and sausage, and i had pappardelle with mushrooms and green beans in a cream sauce). for dessert we had the sorbetto.
the coffee was also . . superb!
the restaurant is decorated beautifully. behind me, on the wall, is a fresco based on an italian painting from the renaissance. you can read about the artist and his work, and about the restaurant itself, here. (oh dear, actually i can't find information about the artist on the website . . she has it only in the menu at the restaurant . . i suppose i will suggest to her that it would be good to put up online!)
chanda is at a birthday party that is ending late, so greg waited for her (at barnes and noble's) while i went home . . i ended up walking downtown . . through times square. i haven't been through times square at night in a long time.
