She has never been to the city so I had somewhat planned a full day of touring. Our day started by going to Iron Chef Morimoto's restaurant:
IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST RESTAURANTS I HAVE EVER BEEN TO! <- the caps and exclamation mark don't do it justice. The restaurant itself is gorgeous. The entire ceiling is all fabric and the sides are bamboo imprinted walls with lighting that is truly exquisite. I had an ice tea with actual different fruit chunks and seasonings in it (looked like a mohito- spelling?). For lunch I had tempura shrimp roll and angry chicken. The sushi was great! I wouldn't expect it not to be, but the angry chicken was an "adventure." I true adventure. Out of the country sort of adventure. It was a roasted chicken breast, which was seasoned and cooked to perfection over what are called fingertip peppers- (side note: The wait staff were as informed about the food as any food network host would be.) What made this an "angry" dish was that fingertip peppers can be very mild to the point where they are just delicious or can be VERY spicy (Scoville units: 6-8 out of 10), and there is no way to know which pepper is which. Just so you know I didn't know anything about these peppers until after this experience :) The first pepper was very mild and tasted amazing. So I was under the assumption they would all taste the same. I took about a half a pepper and paired it with a piece of chicken. Within three seconds of swallowing- wow. I have never felt as though my mouth was bleeding from a pepper being so hot, but that was the feeling all the way down my esophagus. It was really funny actually. Good thing that there was plenty of water at the table. My mouth actually burned for about 10 minutes and was sensitive to anything I put in my mouth. It was an experience. The waitress told me that a woman once ordered the dish after she informed them about the peppers and started flailing her arms to try and get the waitress to get her milk. I would have enjoyed seeing that. So our lunch was really good and after that we walked to Little Italy (about a 2 mile walk). We went through Soho, Noho, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and the East and West Villages on our way to Mulberry street and at our destination had a world famous cannoli. From there we walked to Spring Street where we went to "Rice to Riches," which is Ellen Degeneres' favorite "restaurant" in NYC and was in the film Hitch. We ate some rice pudding.
After stuffing our faces with more food we took a taxi to Lincoln Center.
We went into the Metropolitan Opera house and then went into Juilliard's library which had a lot of books about art- duh. We ventured to the lawn roof, which is a building that you can walk on top of it's roof that is a lawn- kind of cool. We then walked to Central Park and spent about two hours meandering around seeing all the major sights including the boat house, Bethesda Fountain, Sheep's Meadow (relaxed here for a good 30 minutes), and we also went to The Mall. After Central Park and walking at that point about 4-5 miles, walked back to my apartment. We watched some shark week and then we were off again. We went to In the Heights broadway lottery and didn't win, but got tickets, came back to the apartment (watched more shark week) and then Sarah had her first NYC pizza and broadway experience- very exciting. We went to Famous Famiglias for a "slice of pie" and then went to In The Heights.
It was good as always (3rd time seeing it). Actually, it was the best out of the three times I saw it- the original cast was back from L.A. I believe. After that we went through Time Square and then came back to my apartment where I slept on the comfortable floor :) In the morning we got up and I went to work. We were supposed to go to lunch, but I didn't have time so she came to my work to say goodbye and she got on a bus to Delaware. It was a great 24 hours! A lot of fun spending time with someone who wanted to come visit me :)
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