American Traveler

Hot dog, homemade beef chili, gruyere, and sauerkraut. Delicious!

We also had the Turtle Crossing  signature chicken wings, homemade, fresh onion rings, shrimp kisses, mexican corn on the cob, and pulled chicken sandwich. It was a great lunch! filling and delicious. This is great pub food like with imagination and a twist.

P1010371, a photo by wjsvt on Flickr.

The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center

Lauren with Red-tailed Hawk at benefit in Southampton

What $16 Gets You at Rowdy Hall

I’m thinking that Rowdy Hall’s half an acorn squash stuffed with spinach is a bit pricey at 16 bucks. Agree?

Next stop: Nick and Toni’s.

New Year’s Eve 2010: Early dinner at Nick and Toni’s. Started with cocktails, of course. A hot pepper infused vodka martini for Lauren and for me, a Rosemary’s Baby—organic gin with homemade limoncello and rosemary. Delicious! Lauren had a wild mushroom and frisee salad which she loved. I chose the warm cauliflower salad which blew me away. Cauliflower was al dente and perfectly cooked. They snuck some bacon in there too. Main course, whole branzio stuffed with citrus for her. Osso Bucco for me. Lauren finished hers down to the eyeballs. Me? I couldn’t get through mine. Too much moist tender, delicious meat.

Nick and Toni’s is delightful in November. Nick and Toni’s during Restaurant Week in November is doubly delightful. We sampled their prix fixe menu last weekend. I had the beef short ribs wile Lauren had the fluke. Both were wonderful. Had dosas for lunch the next day at Hampton Chutney in Amagansett. Had the deluxe Masala. Delicious! You can check out my article about the place here: http://bit.ly/99sTa3

It was warm enough that i was able to take a bike ride out to Napeague Bay Saturday. Beautiful, quiet, not a soul around.

Here's Lauren waiting for the LIRR train back to Penn Station on Sunday.

My off off Broadway play (Who Put the Ex in Xmas?) closed Friday night. The snow storm kept out of town friends from coming for the weekend, so Saturday I hopped on the jitney to spend the remainder of the weekend with my woman in the Hamptons. We had had a memorable (and expensive dinner with friends at Nick and Tony’s in East Hampton earlier in the winter and decided to go back to take advantage of their movie deal: two course and a movie voucher for 30 bucks. Not bad! Because it was off season and because we made a resy for 6:00, (not so much because we’re fabulous) we got a great table.

Why so early? Because we wanted to make it to the screening of “Mean Streets” and post-movie talk with Alec Baldwin at Gild Hall. (Lauren has crossed paths with him before in her professional life and his repeated refusal to grant her an interview has become something of a bit between them.) Lauren kept telling people that the Q&A would be moderated by Ted Nugent. Of course, peoples response was “Wha?!” It wasn’t Ted Nugent at all of course, but David from the Hampton’s Film Festival.

But, back to dinner…

we didn’t realize until after the fact that the special was drawn form their Alsatian menu. Lauren had an onion tart with greens as an appetizer an I had a frisee, ham and Gruyere salad. Both were delicious. For main course, Lauren chose the chicken, while I had the baeckoffe, a stew of brisket lamb and pork under a blanket of potato puree. with desert and a glass of wine, our bill broke the $100 mark, but we did pocket two movie passes. (Or I should say Lauren pocketed two movie passes. I barely got a glimpse of them before they disappeared into her purse.

That was not our only food for the night; the movie event included a free desert at the Maidstone Living Room. I’ll just have a bite of desert, Lauren said as we walked to the restaurant. (Actually, we walked away from the restaurant as for some reason Lauren got it in her head that we were going to the Hedges. Once we got straigtened out we made it to the maidstone where we had more than a taste. We actually shared three deserts between us. (That brownie with warm espresso sauce was too inviting to resist.) At least we had pre-worked off a few calories with that walk to the wrong restaurant.

Nest stop: Miami!