| NYC with Baby Bro! Sept. 27, 2001 Day #2 Today was pure shopping. We cabbed down to 2nd Avenue Deli but it was Yom Kippur so it was closed. We never did get a chance to go back but we did find Lombardi's. I highly recommend this place. Great, great pizza baked in coal ovens with a nice thin crust. Soooo good! We hit a lot of shops in SoHo. Dave found his jacket at Bergdorf Goodman. Then it was a hunt for the retro Reeboks which was not a success. We must've schlepped across the entire city looking for those stinking shoes. Now, you can't go to NYC without doing something hoity toity and cultural so we decided that the evening event would be a Broadway musical. We went to the TKTS booth in Times Square and bought tickets to "Contact." We had high expectations since it had won the 2000 Tony award but Dave and I left quite unsatisfied. It probably didn't help that we had the dining experience from hell at Houlihan's. Yes, we ate at Houlihan's before a Broadway show. We got to the area too late to try risking a real meal so we figured that a chain restaurant would be decent. That was a mistake. The table was disgusting, Dave's beer was skunky, the food was below par and the service was worthy of a Korean restaurant. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the ajumas at Korean restaurants but they are generally not customer service oriented. That was a bad ending to a good shopping day. |