we had incredible food in new york. it was totally the trip planned by iphone, we kept going back and forth between the map app and the yelp app. we had hard times finding things that were open, but after a couple of false starts we had an amazing dinner in this italian restaurant. they said there were no seats upstairs but if we wanted to we could hear the spanish guitarist downstairs. we of course said sure and so the hostess led us through a door down a steep and rickety flight of iron stairs through a hallway which was like between the two buildings through an impossibly narrow doorway and then through the kitchen into the wine cellar, where there were tables and bottles of wine and indeed the guitarist. we had 3 courses of amazing food and the wine flight too. one of the types of wine was from heritage grapes from the specific region of italy- i forget which one. but i didn't realize most european wines come from grapes from africa or south america. when in europe you see the bombed out churches and stuff, but i never thought of war destroying vineyards to the point of making grape varieties extinct.
anyway, that's not what this picture is from. this is lunch the next day in the boathouse of central park. we can see the trees and the lake, but it was one of the most expensive salads i'd ever eaten.
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