Continuing our New York City travelogue... We began Saturday with some breakfast (of course!) at the amazing
Chelsea Market. It's a converted warehouse with all sorts of shops, restaurants, coffee houses, and more. We headed there looking for Sarabeth's Bakery, and were pleasantly surprised to find the entire market.
More cupcakes! New York is a cupcake city, I tell you.
After spending some time in the market, we ventured outside to the
High Line, an unused elevated train line that was converted into a community park last year.
It's really an amazing project and a perfect example of urban reclamation. The train line is now full of plants, benches, walkways, performance areas, and more - all of which offers some amazing views of Chelsea and the Hudson River, because it's above street level.
A stop at the Purl fabric shops in Soho. Fabric...
...and yarn!
And then we had one of our craziest meals of the trip: dim sum at Jing Fong. Several people suggested trying dim sum in Chinatown, with Jing Fong as one of the top recommendations. We had no idea what we were in for, but we found the restaurant, took an escalator upstairs, and suddenly found ourselves in a massive (and full!) dining room. Before we were even seated, a series of women pushing carts jammed with food surrounded us. They plied us with all sorts of specialties. Eventually we just started choosing some, and found ourselves enjoying a delicious meal.
We don't know everything we ate that meal (though we did decline the fried chicken feet), but it was all delicious. But we can't convey the rush and noise of the experience. If you're in New York, try it yourself!
A look at Chinatown.
Grand Central Station.
On our final day, Sunday, we had breakfast at City Bakery, who makes an amazing crack-laced hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows.
City Bakery is known for their pretzel croissants. Oh yeah.
We concluded the trip with a short walk into Central Park, then had to part ways, to get home to our kiddos. We're looking forward to our next trip with Kim, Kurt, and Maddie already!
Continuing our New York City travelogue... We began Saturday with some breakfast (of course!) at the amazing Chelsea Market. It's a converted warehouse with all sorts of shops, restaurants, coffee houses, and more. We headed there looking for Sarabeth's Bakery, and were pleasantly surprised to find the entire market.
More cupcakes! New York is a cupcake city, I tell you.
After spending some time in the market, we ventured outside to the High Line, an unused elevated train line that was converted into a community park last year.
It's really an amazing project and a perfect example of urban reclamation. The train line is now full of plants, benches, walkways, performance areas, and more - all of which offers some amazing views of Chelsea and the Hudson River, because it's above street level.
A stop at the Purl fabric shops in Soho. Fabric...
...and yarn!
And then we had one of our craziest meals of the trip: dim sum at Jing Fong. Several people suggested trying dim sum in Chinatown, with Jing Fong as one of the top recommendations. We had no idea what we were in for, but we found the restaurant, took an escalator upstairs, and suddenly found ourselves in a massive (and full!) dining room. Before we were even seated, a series of women pushing carts jammed with food surrounded us. They plied us with all sorts of specialties. Eventually we just started choosing some, and found ourselves enjoying a delicious meal.
We don't know everything we ate that meal (though we did decline the fried chicken feet), but it was all delicious. But we can't convey the rush and noise of the experience. If you're in New York, try it yourself!
A look at Chinatown.
Grand Central Station.
On our final day, Sunday, we had breakfast at City Bakery, who makes an amazing crack-laced hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows.
City Bakery is known for their pretzel croissants. Oh yeah.
We concluded the trip with a short walk into Central Park, then had to part ways, to get home to our kiddos. We're looking forward to our next trip with Kim, Kurt, and Maddie already!
2 comments:
crack laced hot chocolate! ha!! but in all seriousness, what did they put in there?
How fun! I've only had dim sum once, and it was awful. I think I need to try it again somewhere good.
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