Yep, it’s NY Restaurant Week again and we had reservations today for Aquavit. For those who don’t know, Restaurant Week offers three course lunches for $24 and dinners for $35. Aquavit is located in midtown East 55th St. and offers contemporary Scandinavian cuisine. And they sell Kopparberg cider. I was happy our fabulous waiter Jarrett […]
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BAR 13 UNION SQUARE
I met up with a Finnish friend of mine after work on Thursday for a dress hunt. She has a wedding to attend to on Sunday and no proper dress. The right dress was found at Esprit that actually had 30% of all dresses. I fell in love with so many items there. We also […]
GRAND WAS THE CANYON
The trip I took last week with my sister (she’s visiting from Finland for 2 weeks) was to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. I love the mountains and it’s been my dream to visit the Canyon for a long time. It was very quick trip, but I’m happy I got to experience it. We stayed […]
DRINKS IN THE CITY
The other night we took a visitor from Finland to the revolving rooftop restaurant/bar View on top of the Marriott Marquis hotel. I’ve done dinner here once with my family and was not happy with anything. Food was mediocre, service way below the bar and prices very high. So I knew I probably shouldn’t come […]
LOVE IN LES
When I first moved to Manhattan in 2004 I was renting a room in Lower East Side right at Delancey Street (Baruch projects). The blue building in the background is Hotel on Rivington that I’ve mentioned few times before, for example here. I loved that I could walk to East Village, Chinatown and South Street […]