back from New York

[redbird]

Cattitude, Adrian, and I just spent a couple of days in New York City, mostly to see my mother. We talked a lot, walked a lot, and ate some good food. Good sushi at a randomly selected restaurant Friday evening, and Ukrainian food for lunch today before we came back to Boston. I had two kinds of pierogi: truffled mushroom, new on Veselka's menu since my last visit, and sweet potato.

I also showed Adrian the Cloisters, and we had dinner last night with my aunt Lea, her husband Dave, and my cousin Janet, as well as Mom.

[I will try to post more later, but want to at least touch on this before falling over. Tonight the cats need my attention.]

Comments

[minoanmiss]

*waves*

[sine_nomine]

Ah Veselka!!

And if you remember the random sushi inquiring minds would love to know... too much sushi in NYC and too much of it mediocre, imho.

[redbird]

I don't know the name offhand, but it's the first sushi place on the east side of Eighth Avenue as you walk south from 23rd Street. I can check with Adrian, she might have kept the receipt.

Good things about this place include that the mackerel was very good; the server said "it's not on the menu but I'll make it special" when we asked for a saba roll as dessert (it was included in the sushi and sashimi platters and my chirashi).
Also, when Adrian said she wanted fish only, no shellfish or octopus, the server clarified what that meant, and then came back to ask me if I minded shrimp.

[sine_nomine]

Thanks so much for the great directions and help with address. Delighted to know of a place worth eating in that part of Chelsea.

[redbird]

You're welcome. cattitude's recollection from the early 2010s was that there were enough good restaurants that "first cuisine we like" would work, but he also thought there'd likely be something suitable on 23rd between Seventh and Eighth. I'm glad we got lucky, and glad I mentioned liking the restaurant instead of just "my mother met us at the hotel and we went out for dinner."

[adrian_turtle]

It's called Royal Thai, but there was a lot of sushi on the menu and at least one sushi chef working where we could see him. The address is 240 8[smudge].

[redbird]

The smudge part would be "8th Avenue."

[sine_nomine]

Excellent; thank you! Based on redbird's directions I am guessing "smudge" was 8th avenue.

I will hunt it up next time I'm in that part of town (which is infamous for tons of really not great restaurants one eats at because one is hungry).