MLK Weekend in the NYC!

Thanks to Brothatime!! I got to spend the weekend in New York City. It quite possibly was one of the all-time great culinary weekends of my life - everything we tried was knockout great. I didn't even take any pictures of our dinner Saturday night at Bowery Meat Company, which included a 100-day dry aged double ribeye that's the only piece of meat I've ever considered to touch Luger's porterhouse. Everything we noshed on at Chelsea Market was fantastic. Paddy Mac absolutely crushed it with his pizza select, Ribalta. And Brothatime!! found us the perfect pastrami sammy at Sarge's Deli - which we then went head-to-head with against Katz!!!!!!! Even the sausages at the free breakfast in the hotel were great!

Speaking of great food in NYC, you know you’re staying at a classy hotel when you open up the fridge and this is waiting for you. Thanks Marriott! 🤗

You know you're in an old-school Jewish Deli when the waitress who's obviously been there for 50 years matter-of-factly says to a customer, "alright take it easy, lady" without breaking stride. Thanks Sarge!

Brothatime!! teaching Paddy Mac that just showing up doesn't mean a victory is guaranteed...

   

...although beer showing up in a boot does!

  

 

This is pure genius.

There is noting better than snow falling in NYC, here's a coupla fellas scampering through the flakes to get into PJ Clarke's. BTW that's my green arm on the left, not the Incredible Hulk's.

Just a coupla fellas hoisting a few at PJ Clarke's, along with Paddy Mac thinking he's posing to try out for a Korean boy pop band. Good luck, Paddy Mac! 🍻🤗

Table 53 at PJ Clarke's, where Buddy Holly proposed to his future wife Maria Elena. Thanks to the young couple who pretended to not notice my earnest excited sweat dripping onto their table as I hovered over them.

 

True Love Ways was written by Holly as a wedding gift to Maria Elena, here's the final scene from The Buddy Holly Story of him playing it several hours before his death.

I'm usually fairly ambivalent about buildings, so of course I took this one because I thought it looked like it had cat's ears.

Holden Caulfied’s view if he’d wandered into a Burlington Coat Factory because his goddam nephew didn’t think to pack steakhouse-appropriate pants the night before:

A great weekend!  :)