Lincoln with broad window views of Lincoln Center's arts complex. This was the wedding anniversary choice. Especially because we were going to see Renee Fleming in Czech opera
Rusalka...yes same songstress as Superbowl Star Spangled singer. Jeanne's sparkling wine from the Prosecco bar mixed with cassis and elderberry let me know I chose well. Tangerine sorbet was intense...in a good way.The table side manners of the staff the smoked pepper pasta and the cod in a prosciutto consume with clams added to my confidence.
I was awake for much of the opera and was touched by the tenor Piotr Beczala but a little bit hurt by the bias against humans exhibited by the gnomes. Special occasion=Lincoln.
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| Cod and taters and clams(baccala) |
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| radicchio and endive and grapefruit salad split |
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Aview into the glass enclosed kitchen
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An urban hike began on Sunday afternoon in the slope on 5st and 5 av and headed through Hasidic Boro Park where grandma had her paint store and Moms diary suggested she went to movies 3 or 4 nights a week...then through a Bklyn Chinatown with signs for pulled noodles and dumplings....but miles later we were ushered in to Il Colloseo. I had wanted to go when we visited the Xmas lights in Dyker Hts but this was the first chance. As in my childhood at Salernos or Mama Leones this was special. A montage of family tables each a kind of diorama filled with vibrant conversation,and raw Brooklyn laughter or animated controversy punctuated by musical back of the hand jabs. The salads and broccoli rabe and the huge shrimps that i only touched with my eyes were key players but the setting was star...and the luscious buffalo margarita. And there was Vincent eating his pizza with a knife and fork asking the waiter why they were picking on the Mayor. The waiter agreed.
