Sunday comes, and FINALLY a day off. I slept in like a little baby. The combination of fatigue, eye masks and ear plugs are like a big hit of valium for me.
Sunday was just the perfect day to have off. There was a free Six60 gig in Brooklyn!! We went out to Williamsburg trying to go to the famous pizza joint Roberta's. It was packed (as expected) and we were told the wait would be an hour and 20 minutes. Yea...Nah...
So we made our way down to a small bar named Tutu's which we had walked past earlier. It was a nice little place with really delicious burgers so we were very happy. I really like it that people ask to what temperature we want the burger patties done! According to Amba, people die from eating undercooked burgers but medium rare burgers just taste so much better!!!
Oh and what a small world. I met Renee & Brian's friend Mou? Mu? (I'm still not sure how to say his name) who was from Germany and is working for the Maldives mission. I introduced myself and he knew that I worked at Ambeli! Turns out he flatted with one of the chefs (Marty) and I had met him once before. Such a small world.
Anyways, after dinner, drinks and a pickle back (for those who don't know, it is a shot of whiskey followed by a shot of pickle juice, Brooklyn thing apparently), we went on our way to a free gig at a bowling alley. When I saw the name 'Brooklyn Bowl' I imagined something similar to the Hollywood bowl in CA but perhaps smaller. No. It was a bowling alley with a (reasonably sized) stage to the side.
While waiting for Six60 to come on, I heard a song that sounded little like a cross between Beirut & Fun. which I really really liked the sounds of.
Hail Great Caesar!
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| Great Caesar |
It's been a while since I've been wowed by a band and these guys were AWESOME! They were a six piece band which included a trumpet player and a sax player, who also played a larger, bassier instrument I don't know the name of. Great original songs, energetic and fun. We (Sam) bought their CD for $5 and that's all I've been listening to in the past week or so. Check this video out!!
After Great Caesar was The Griswold or something. They were pretty 'meh'. Pass.
Six60 was pretty awesome actually. To be honest, if they were in playing in Wellington I don't think I would have ever paid and made time to go see them. But when you are in a foreign country you become all patriotic and shit you know. It was pretty cool to see the scarfies reaching out to the world on a stage, albeit a small, free one.
And then my work week started again. Now the work has become a routine and I feel much more comfortable. The thanks giving service was a killer though. We started at 9.30 am with a big family meal of turkey and didn't stop till like 12 am. Two highlights of the day were:
Family of four dine in for thanks giving. It's a $195 four-course pre fixie menu (not including tax & tip) with $95 supplement if you want a pasta dish with fresh white truffle as your appetiser. This little girl who looked to be about 8 or 9 orders one saying 'truffles are my faaaaavourite!!' Awesome. She follows that up with a little picture and a poem about truffles to the chef. Brilliant.
After service we had another big family meal of, you guessed it, turkey (this common theme continued for the next four days or so). I see Dustin (our wine director, a master sommelier and an indie film star) drinking PBR. Let's say Double Brown equivalent in price but considered 'hip'? It made me happy.
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| Family meal pt. 2 |
I also made some friends at work! We often go out for drinks after work and here are some photos from one of those nights. I'm using their names and photos without permission. COME AT ME BRO!
Looking back at the photos we also went to K-town one of the days. It was a lot of fun eating Korean food and drinking soju! Except it felt so much like I was in Korea with foreigners and no Ally...sad face...
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| Soju & Samgyupsal |
What else...what else...oh we decided to try Roberta's once more on Sunday. There were 9 of us this time but still had to wait an hour and half. We were little more prepared though. We went earlier so we wouldn't starve and didn't have a gig to go to after. While waiting I tried this thing called Michelada which was kind of like a beer version of Bloody Marry. Unexpectedly delicious!
After a while we got our table and had some delicious food. The pasta dish I had with oxtail was super yum but super tiny portion :( The pizzas were great but I am yet to find a pizza that , for me, is better than Gambaretti at Scopa! All and all, it was a pretty cool place with good food but would I wait 1.5 hrs for it again? Probably not. There are just simply too many placed to check out in this city. I'm glad I have been though.
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| Roberta's |
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| So true...so true... |
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| Pizza! |
I think that about wraps up my couple of weeks. Hopefully Ally will write a post too so you guy more stuff to read! Looks like she's got exit if couple of weeks ahead of her :p
