17 – Atoboy and Aviary

Posted in New York by Mary Lynne Kupchella

Atoboy
Yet another place that I have missed terribly since I moved. So much so that I ate so quickly I forgot to photograph several dishes.

lotus root, dubu, seaweed, chili oil

beef tartare, nooruk, mustard green, myungran

sunchoke, oyster mushroom, black truffle, orange

octopus, kimchi, chorizo, parsley

Aviary
So much about the reviews is accurate and so much is not accurate at all. I am certainly biased. For me it will never be the same as Chicago, but the views sure do help compensate.

Up the Ice Ante – oat, marcona almond, white peach, horchata

Chicharron

Heart of Stone – pistachio, peach, fresno, lapsang, bourbon

Loaded to the Gunwalls – mace, pineapple, hazelnut, batavia arrack

2Dec2017

NYC – 8/18/17 – The Office

Posted in New York by Mary Lynne Kupchella

The Office NYC will likely always feel a bit strange to me having spent so much time in the original. But the amazing friends I met there and all of the memories just can’t be replicated. So I am trying hard to think of it as something entirely new and not compare. At this point I have had several great experiences in this space. The food is gorgeous and with the expanded size comes an expanded menu plus some of my all time favorites the tartare and ice cream sundae. I wish I could write this with no prior history because I am just so curious what I would think. But mostly I am just bummed beyond belief that the minute my favorite place opened in NYC, I left town.