Sunday, February 1, 2009

NYC Restaurant Week

This year NYC Restaurant Week brought me to a few lovely places (for those of you who don't know what restaurant week is: its a week or 2 where select places have 3 course meals for $24 at lunch and $35 for dinner, a great deal for NYC standards). One of which was Steak Frites, I ate some decent Frenchy steak and fries while enduring horrible service, unfortunately no photos are available from that meal (and even if they were, I wouldn't deem it as grub worthy).

So the other place I went this season was the River Cafe in Dumbo, Brooklyn. A fancy pants New American spot that sits right under the Brooklyn Bridge and faces the Manhattan skyline. It just so happens to be a few blocks away from my work so this meal made for a very convenient and lavish lunch. Lets start with course numero uno, lamb meatballs with cognac sauce:



Course #2 was a Scottish salmon fillet on a bed of creamy lentils paired with a fennel-apple salad. This was the best part of the meal for sure, the salmon was cooked perfectly, a nice medium rare.



Dessert really did me in; it was a duo of warm lemon pound cake with Meyer lemon curd on top and a miniature baked Alaska with caramelized bananas.



Needless to say, I didn't get much work done for the rest of the day after that meal.

-J

2 comments:

  1. JJ, you didn't mention if it was good, great, mediocre??? It looked bomb so I'm assuming it was but give me some detail homay...

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  2. We have been to River Cafe for our anniversary a couple of years ago - it's lovely. At night there is a piano player and the view is spectacular.

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