Our first day in New York and it was brilliant, Hana and I managed to fit so much in! We first headed out on the L train to Williamsburg in Brooklyn and chatted a lovely lady called Lyn at the simple cafe, they serve their drinks out of old jam jars and it was really nice to sit out in the sun, she told us about the cool vintage shops and studios/shops around Bedford street. (We did a bit too much shopping, we loved the Catbird shop) We wanted to go for lunch at Relish as I remember it did the most amazing burgers but it was closed for filming and the camera crew wouldn't let us in!We also managed to stumble across some interior exhibitions which are connected with New York design week at the moment. One we really liked was Voos who's tag-line is ' The largest and best selection of furniture made in NY' and it was definitely impressive.
One thing we loved was the graffiti and street art we found all over Williamsburg and the East Village.
We then headed back over to the meat packing district of Manhattan, and I showed Hana where i used to work at DVF, it was really stange to be back there, but nice to be able to enjoy the area without it being on the way to work.
We stumbled across this solo exhibit by Mr. Brainwash called Mr. Brainwash presents Icons. It was a series of large scale pieces on fine art and installations.
See a review of Mr Brain was on the OBEY website.
We then meandered our way down Bleeker street, past Magnolias and had ourselves a red velvet cupcake (really good) before heading back to our new home for this week in the east village.
In the evening we headed out to an lovely little Mexican place our hosts had recommended us called Mary Ann's, good food, huge portions, great guacamole!
We finally ended out evening at Arlene's Grocery where we saw a John Broadeur playing. We were really impressed with his music and have been playing his C.D while writing the blog, we also chatted to his wife we plays Bass for a band called Soren Well, both are obviously very talented musicians and are definitely worth checking out!
So that was out first 24hours in the Big Apple... don't think we did to bad!
1 comment:
Ok, so there are five things in this post that rocked my socks off:
1) Drinks out of old jam-jars = amazing
2) I feel like I spent the day seeing the sights of Williamsberg and the meatpacking district with you (even though in reality I am in a rainy and chilly UK!)
3) Your stripy red and white jumper is loads of fun
4) The fact you used to work for Diane von Furstenberg is, let's face it, pretty darn cool
5) Mexican food is one of my favourites
Looking forward to the next day in your week of NYC adventures. Have you visited The High Line before? It's ace, check it out if you have time: thehighline.org
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