City Mitten

My mother is in town visiting me this weekend which is lovely. The weather hasn’t been too lovely for her though. Rained a bit today and it’s supposed to be even worse tomorrow. Oh, well! We walked to SoHo and I finally bought a brand new umbrella from Uniqlo (as seen above). And there is my mother dearest taking shelter under it on the streets on NY. It’s nice to have her here.

We took advantage of Restaurant Week (since it’s turned to Restaurant Year just about, extended til Labor Day) and had dinner at Kittichai, one of my favorite restaurants that I’ve been to in the city.

But I was disappointed for two reasons. One, the tuna tar tar was NOT on the RW menu as an app as it was during Winter RW and also as it is currently listed online! Actually the RW menu posted on their web site was all wrong. I was planning on getting the seafood bouillabaisse but that was not an option either (the second reason I was disappointed). Good thing the valrhona chocolate cake was on the menu or we would have walked out right then. Okay, probably not, but still. Instead of the tuna tar tar they had salmon tar tar which was good but not the same. I didn’t even know they made salmon tar tar. We also had a squid and octopus salad and for the main course we had short ribs with curry and blackened mackerel. The short ribs were the winner in that one and then we both got the valrhona chocolate cake for dessert. I love their cake, it’s yummy (very chocolatey) and it’s cool because it comes in a giant leaf that they unwrap after they put your plate on the table. It’s really exciting.

Mmm, mmm. It’s just got a really great texture and I love it even though it’s not served warm. It was served with some sort of cream dollop of sorts and I wonder if during the winter it was actually served with ice cream? I’m not sure.