I'm on the road this week, posting from sunny Carmel, CA. One of my best friends is getting married on Saturday and with the bachelorette party tonight and my birthday tomorrow (the big 2-7 on the 27th!), I figured I'd turn a birthday and wedding week into vacation week. If anyone on the left coast is in or around Stinson Beach this evening, look out! Some wild and crazy girls will be painting the town red. Hope everyone's having a fabulous week and I will catch up with you when I return to New York, if I do...
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Lunch at Quartino, a casual Ligurian restaurant, offers a perfect mid-day escape for downtown diners, providing respite from the crowds pushing to and from the nearby Seaport, as well as a culinary diversion from the same-ness of the dozens of chain eateries of Pier 17 and the underwhelming steam table joints that line the canyons of Wall Street. Quartino also has the distinction of being one of the few restaurants in the city that focuses its efforts on organic foods, a reflection of the health-conscious preoccupations of its original physician/owners.
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It was a beautiful summer night, love was in the air and I was determined to find it, so I turned to a friend for a last minute set-up. I wanted to dine under the moon with someone new and different. He suggested someone who’d just moved to the East Village with an extensive knowledge of Italian, homemade pastas and organic wild salmon.
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Most of the mahogany-paneled restaurants downtown are billed as having been open since 1600, and they specialize in giant steaks seemingly aged since then. Therefore, it is refreshing to walk into the high-ceilinged, airy Quartino, a Ligurian restaurant tucked away below the Brooklyn Bridge exit ramp. I never expected to find such an oasis of charm just one block away from South Street!
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