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saraghina: a very pleasant pizza adventu...

Posted by cherrypatter in american, bedford-stuyvesant, brooklyn, cheap, food, outdoor dining, pizza on 09 29th, 2009 | No Comments

as i’ve mentioned before, our family has this pizza friday tradition. while sometimes it has to be local (and last friday i endured two boots which while extremely family friendly really leaves something to be desired in the taste department), we try to make a bit of trek out of it both for...

shake shack: still amazing despite all t...

Posted by cherrypatter in american, food, ice cream, madison square park/union square, manhattan, nolita, outdoor dining, take out, treats, upper west side on 09 28th, 2009 | No Comments

shake shack is not exactly a revelation for anyone who knows anything about the new york food scene, but i’m very happy to report that it continues to be as good as it’s ever been, and i’ve been coming here from the very very beginnings when it was just a hot dog cart. my office...

tompkins square park: toddlers exist in ...

Posted by cherrypatter in east village, ideas, manhattan, public spaces on 09 25th, 2009 | No Comments

we spend many of our weekends in new york hunting down the best playgrounds. we travel all over to explore the newest, the most fun, the biggest and the wildest play areas in the city (we are so tired of our local one at j.j. byrne parkwhich isn’t so great anyways). if we hear or see of a...

mini guide: tompkins square park...

Posted by cherrypatter in east village, manh: below 42nd street, manhattan, mini guides: new york on 09 25th, 2009 | No Comments

before moving to brooklyn, the far east village was totally my stomping ground. ten years ago, this part of town was a little less gentrified, a little rougher around the edges, and that allowed for smaller shops anda few restaurants to really thrive without worrying about whether they could pay the...

tia pol: tiny nuggets of spanish wonder...

Posted by cherrypatter in beer and wine, chelsea, food, manhattan, snacks, spanish on 09 22nd, 2009 | 9 Comments

i haven’t had the best of luck with spanish food. j and i have been to barcelona and madrid (5 months pregnant so that may have had something to do with it) and both times we never really found that nirvana in tapas eating. we kept trying out different spots, trying to pick what looked like...

bklyn larder: the best blts around!...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, park slope, prospect heights on 09 21st, 2009 | No Comments

it is a very seriously good thing that we do not live too close to the bergen street stop on flatbush avenue or i would destroy what exists of our family budget. i am a wee obsessed with bklyn larder, and mostly lately is has been all about their blt. it’s not big, but the white bread (many of...

top of the rock: maybe the best views in...

Posted by cherrypatter in ideas, manhattan, midtown east, music on 09 18th, 2009 | No Comments

although very early on in our little courtship, j and i made it to the rainbow room, i think unfortunately we didn’t time it right or go to the right event there. despite the incredible art deco space, that night seemed to have been filled with tourists which made it just a little less...

mini guide: rockefeller center...

Posted by cherrypatter in manh: above 42nd street, manhattan, midtown east, mini guides: new york on 09 18th, 2009 | No Comments

i feel like i was just hovering in the midtown area with my bryant park post only a month ago but thought that this top of the rock event was too good not to write about, and really 10 blocks away in midtown could be another city given the density, so one more midtown guide for the fall is in order. with...

commune: luxury hair and affordable jewe...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, gifts, home, jewelry, miscellaneous, shops, williamsburg on 09 16th, 2009 | No Comments

so i’m feeling guilty for playing hooky yesterday and not doing my usual daily post. since i started this blog in january, i have been very good about posting during the week except for my (self-approved) vacations. but yesterday my routine just was out of whack, and most importantly, working with...

num pang: some oomph with your bahn mi...

Posted by cherrypatter in asian, food, take out, treats on 09 15th, 2009 | No Comments

while i have been enjoying the bahn mi phenomenon, i cannot say i have tried what seem like the dozens of places out there to see what was best. i just remember being excited about 5 years ago or so (maybe even more) when there was one tiny shop that opened up in the grand central station food market. ...

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with two small and darling kids and one lovely husband who all occasionally need some amount of tending to as well as a full-time job, this blog is an excuse for me to explore the streets of new york, with a focus on brooklyn -- my home -- and manhattan, for those great little finds that seem to appear randomly on all sorts of blocks around new york but are sometimes hidden from plain view. i gravitate toward small, beautiful, independent places with interesting things, fantastic and friendly service and mostly affordable stuff (or at least an excellent value) and food that is extremely tasty, reasonable and in a great space -- though taste will trump design every time. to help put all these ideas in one place, i also will provide a series of new york mini-guides. in each of these, i will highlight something fun to do and then give some food, shop and doing suggestions nearby. these mini-guides, soon to be accompanied by mini-maps, will help to fill an afternoon -- where to pick up a snack, what shops to check out nearby and is there a really sweet little park along the way for a much needed rest. and i am always looking for ideas -- so if you have any suggestions for where to eat and shop or what to do please let me know. . you can also follow me on twitter at cherrypatter.

and for those of you more interested in the photos, i have absolutely no photography training and while i have been picking up a few tidbits here and there, mostly i think the credit for the photos goes to my lovely camera. it is a canon rebel xti, and the lens i use most of the time is the 50 mm 1:1:8. i also have a 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 for longer views.

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shake shack: still amazing despite all t...

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bklyn larder: the best blts around!...

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