places to go | new york city | PALETTES AND PASSPORTS

New York is such a cool city – full of hip spots and thousands of restaurant choices. I spent a few days there in 2007 and have been dying to go back ever since. We hopped around on Saturday morning through SoHo and Lower Manhattan on a rainy New York day. We stopped in SoHo’s French bistro Balthazar for brunch and I ate the most amazing brioche french toast. We spent the afternoon indoors browsing the Chelsea Market and taking in the contemporary art at the New Museum. The days were gloomy and grey and I love how these photos seem to capture a bit of the grittier side of the city. On Sunday we found our way over to Brooklyn. I wish we would have had more time to explore and I was really hoping to check out the Brooklyn Flea. We ate pies at Grimaldi’s and the clouds cleared long enough for our stroll back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge. One of my favorite spots on our trip was the High Line – a park created on what once was an abandoned freight rail that is scattered with public art projects. I’ll be talking more about it in a post next week. Sunday night we dined at tapas restaurant Tertulia in the West Village. As a big group we had the Chef’s Menu – the paella was delicious but the croquetas were my favorite. We stayed two nights in a small modern hotel in SoHo. The location was prefect – we were able to walk and get coffee in the mornings, had tons of options for food and were close to public transportation. New York was as beautiful as I remembered it and it was fun exploring new places, eating our hearts out and pretending to be locals for a few days.