Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Landmarks are emptier during the recession

One of the only pluses about the current recession is that if you want to go to a nice restaurant at the last minute without a reservation, you can go right ahead. This past week, Asha and I checked out Landmarc, one of the restaurants in the Time Warner Building (it's weird to have a mall in New York, but at least the food there is good - like the Bouchon Bakery).


We started off with the endive salad. I found it a little bitter, but then again, endives are bitter, so what was I expecting?


The cheese and nuts were a nice compliment to the endives. I found myself hunting for the bits of cheese and nuts while trying to avoid the leaves. Whoops! That's probably not the point of salad.

Asha had mussels - you can get them prepared a variety of ways, and she chose chorizo and onion (because it seemed different - you can get shallots, white wine and parsley anywhere).


They were very good - lots of flavor from the chorizo and yummy broth leftover to dip bread in and eat. I was a big fan.

(Dad, look away - don't scroll down any more, you're not going to like this)

Here comes one of my favorite dishes of all time.....be prepared to be a little grossed out if you're squeamish.


That's right, bone marrow. I love bone marrow. A lot. I will order it almost any time I see it on a menu. You've seen me eat bone marrow before. It is so delicious and creamy and decadent without being fancy or pretentious. You make a huge mess eating it - meat juices run down your face and grease gets everywhere. I feel super alive when I'm eating this - it takes all my concentration to dig out the marrow and then spread it with onion confit and sea salt. I pick and poke at every little bit and I'm not focused on anything else - just splitting apart bones and eating them. YUM!

So, I'd go back to Landmarc is what I'm saying, I think. I mean, they have bone marrow. And mussels. And some pasta specials that looked good as well. You should check it out.

3 comments:

Mikochan said...

Is it odd that eating bone marrow reminds me of when people used to eat the hearts of their enemies to gain their power? ^_~

David Borgen said...

yucky food...nice photo of asha...

Meredith said...

Yeah, I'd like to eat some marrow with you there sometime for sure.

P.S. Your commenters who aren't me are crazy.