City Mitten

For the record, I don’t always eat like crap. I post a lot of pictures of sweets and nonsense but I actually eat a substantial amount of healthy food. Breakfast, for example:

Delicious. Peaches, plums, blackberries and raspberries; all from the farmer’s market. I love fruit.

The rest of the day, though… not so much.

Is it okay to be kind of drunk by 6 o’clock on a Tuesday? I think so. I actually don’t drink a lot, but sometimes, when things are crazy, a drink (or two) sounds really nice. Tuesday was one of those days.

My friend Joe picked me up after work (yay, riding in cars!) and we went to Pala on the Lower East Side. Mmm pizza.

This is the bufala cruda: buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomato sauce, fresh basil and prosciutto. This is very good. I’m a huge Grimaldi’s fan, but I’m going to say Pala is right up there on my list. It’s just got a little more style (and you need a few more dollar bills, naturally).

We sat at a table on the sidewalk and the best part was when double decker tour buses would roll by. By the way, since when do they go on Allen street? Interesting. But they would stop at the light and look at us and I, with interesting wine glass in hand, would look back at them and say ridiculous things (mainly only audible for me and Joe) like, “Welcome to New York. I’m having fabulous pizza and drinking wine. You’re on a bus.” It was funny – at least to me, as I was the one with the wine. And of course, when you’re on the LES, you get nothing but interesting folks walking by. Joe was one of them. He went to put more change in the meter and when I saw him walking back I burst into laughter because he was wearing his aviators and it was clearly not sunny out anymore.

After Pala, we ventured over to the Levee in Williamsburg and he kicked my ass in Connect Four. Humiliated me. I probably won three of 20 games. My Connect Four skills have room for improvement.

Beer, cheeseballs and Connect Four. Such is life at 7pm on a Tuesday night. :)