Yet another Soho image!
Balthazar is ever photogenic. I'll have to sneak a picture from the insides one of these days, (you can see it on their website). It is bustling and beautiful at night, and the food and service are great (that's if you can get a table).
There are eight different menus. I recommend the mussels and steak frites at the restaurant, and just about everything at the boulangerie next door - the madelines are fresh and buttery, the round chocolate biscotti encrusted with sugar are devine, the shortbread cookies are yum (and I don't usually like sweets!).
In the morning at the bakery, there's a line out the door. People sit out on the benches with their dogs, eating breakfast and reading the paper.
One of the great things about NY is that there are the busy avenues going north-south, like Broadway, which are chock full of big stores and traffic and banners. And then there are the smaller, one-way streets, where there are boutiques, boulangeries with benches outside and charming brownstones.
Big and small manage to coexist. It's the best of both worlds.
Photo by myself on Spring Street in Soho.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Balthazar
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4 comments:
One of my favourite things to do in New York on a day off is to have breakfast at Balthazar. Have you ever tried their hot chocolate? It's divine, creamy rather than overly sweet. I've been craving it recently ;-)
You don't eat sweets?!!! I would rather give up air than give up my sweets. LOL
hey fish!
I'll have to swing by for their hot chocolate, yes. That sounds really decadent. Actually, just about everything over there is decadent.
and Tammy...I feel like it's a blessing not to have a sweet tooth. Else I'd be gi-normous!
Balthazar's chocolate madeleines and the bread are among the reasons I will trek into the city.
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