NYC - Food

This is a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese, chopped in half for ease of eating, for breakfast. Joy of joys. 

I think I have three things to say: cheesecake, pizza, bagels.

Unfortunately, we only managed one piece of New York Cheesecake, and I love any sort of sweet dessert really, so I’m not sure I’m a good judge of taste. But it was very nice! My ideal way to eat cheescake - with a cup of tea, slowly, with good company. How I ate this cheesecake - hurriedly, while trying to stretch the baby just five more minutes, just before he got really sick of sitting down and got away and started trashing the place. Also, while trying to convince the baby that the dollop of cream wasn't ice cream, and while trying to not let the children eat the whole dessert. 

Secondly, pizza. It has a flat crust, very little by way of toppings, and they’re HUGE! Also, garlic knots, which are knots of pastry covered in oil. We found a pizza shop up the road from our hotel and ate there twice.

Finally, bagels. We found a little bagel shop up the road, it was like a bakery, only it sold bagels (and coffee of course!). The bagels were so good. We had bagels for breakfast twice, and bagels for lunch another day. I need to learn how to make bagels.

We had hot dogs from hot dog stands, and my more adventurous hubby even tried an Italian sausage, but more than one hot dog in a four day period and I start feeling like I’m eating stodge. Luckily, we also found a deli selling salad, which I had for lunch one day.

My number one recommendation for travelling with children, is take apples. It is difficult to insist on salad in a restaurant, even more difficult when you’re eating pizza, but I had the little zip lock bags and a sharp knife, and every morning I would chop an apple into a bag for both the kids (and another two whole ones for us), and make them appear just when the kids got grumpy at about 9.30am for morning tea.