I have just come back from a wonderful week of eating my way around New York. Here are some of the highlights from my trip and then future posts will be of some recipes inspired from my trip.
GOOD BREAKFAST STOPS ……..
Buvette 42 Grove Street, West Village
We stumbled upon this place on our first day in New York and went in for a quick coffee and croissant. We didn’t realize how lucky we were to bag a table as this is apparently the “hot” breakfast spot in the West Village. I can see why. It is styled like a French cafe, really cosy and full of waiters charging around in their long white aprons. But what really stood out was the coffee. It was excellent. We only had two small croissants and strawberry jam, but looking around I could see people tucking into lots of different egg dishes and the like. The cafe turns into a wine bar later on and I could imagine it as a lovely refuge from the bustle of New York later on at night with a glass or two of fine French wine. If you can get in I would highly recommend this cafe. They also have a sister cafe in Paris – which I am definitely going to check out the next time we are there.
Ruby’s 219 Mulberry Street was our next stand out breakfast. So this was an Aussie style cafe, sans the surf boards, but full of breakfast items such as Vegemite and avocados. I loved the laid back atmosphere, and yet again the coffee was superb. I had banana bread with passion fruit butter – which was a bit like lemon curd but made with passion fruit instead. This was another cafe that morphs into lunch time fare and then into evenings. Again extremely popular and we were lucky to get a table.
Other good coffee stops are Toby’s Estate, with several outlets all around Manhattan and Brooklyn, if you see that an establishment is serving this coffee it is worth stopping by. And another recommendation is StumpTown Coffee which again serves excellent coffee and nice pastries.
The Urban Garden Cook 