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One Year!

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

Posted by Monique in Uncategorized

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anniversary, brooklyn, My Moon, wedding, Williamsburg

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Just recently, hubby and I celebrated our one year anniversary.

With it being so close to Valentine’s Day and the venue being closed on Monday’s, we made it a twofer. Happy Anniversary and Happy Valentine’s Day. The temperature on Valentine’s Day was just like our wedding day- FREEZING. But I am not that shocked since…spoiler alert…we got married in the winter.

When we were seated at our table at My Moon NYC, we told our waiter we were celebrating our anniversary. It was incredibly heartwarming that they remembered us.

To paraphrase, their recognition went a little something like “Oh you guys got married on a REALLY cold day, right?” yeah. That was us.

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We love our bubbles so a bottle of bubbly was in order.

There was a prefix menu for the holiday but we decided to order off of the regular menu.

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We started with a mixed seafood plate- calamari, shrimp, and homemade chips. Fried with an airy crisp.

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Hubby ordered the rack of lamb atop a parsnip puree and roasted carrots. The lamb was cooked perfectly.

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I had the steak. It came with roasted red peppers and a creamy potato puree. The roasted peppers with the steak was so good!

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Hubby ordered the caramel cheesecake which was great.

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I had the molten lava cake. Wasn’t a fan of the ice cream but the cake was warm and rich. A perfect end to a great meal.

We had successfully finished the entire bottle of champagne when we asked for the check.

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The staff surprised us with more champagne and a lovely anniversary message. I can’t believe its been a year! It has definitely been challenging with him being away for school but he will be home for good very soon!

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Happy Anniversary my Love!

The Palm Tribeca- Lobstah!

07 Friday Nov 2014

Posted by Monique in Restaurant Review

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anniversary, dinner, lobster, NYC, tribeca

Well, look who decided to share.
I will admit that in the last few months, when B and I are about to sit down to a dinner at a nice restaurant, he sighs with the “you’re not really going to take photos of your food here, are you?” face and I quickly snap shut my phone case like I was only checking the time. It’s not just B, though. There are restaurants that outright ban photo taking. And as a blogger for fun, stopping for a second to actually eat my meal without remembering the photo op, has been fun as well. I have even noticed service has changed- I never stopped to think of how my constant photo taking effected the folks serving me my dinner.
I won’t completely stop taking photos all together but when the photos come, they will be more specialer (that’s a word because I say so).
Back when I worked in Lower Manhattan, I had a hankering for lobster. I was on the internet searching and searching for a place to have a lobster dinner that wasn’t a shack or bar. It was, after all, my 2 year anniversary with B- our last anniversary before we become Mr. and Mrs. While complaining about the lack of lobster establishments to choose from (other than Red Lobster), my mother had suggested I go to the Palm.
The Palm, which has several locations in NY and several more all over the country, was having a special at the time. A 4 lb lobster, 2 appetizers and a side for $99; to make it a 5lber, add $20. We went to the Palm Tribeca which was in a convenient location for the both of us to get to. We got there at 6pm on a Friday and dinner service was definitely starting to pick up.

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We both decided that we were greedy bastards and the 4 lb lobster to share just wouldn’t be enough… so we got the 5 lb. And a 3rd appetizer. And a bottle of champagne.
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We aren’t wealthy by any means but we do enjoy going on a dinner to splurge or treat ourselves. It’s our monthly ritual. So when we chatted up our server about champagnes (because anniversary!) he talked us into getting the more expensive bottle that was on sale if we joined their club.
So we joined.
We couldn’t resist. They said something about a free lobster on your birthday!!!

 

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Our new thing, or should I say Brent’s new thing is Caesar salads before the main course. We ordered our Caesar salads but he added an order of calamari because we were so hungry and its calamari! Both were delicious. The dressing on the Caesar, just thinking about it, makes my mouth water. So creamy and tangy. The calamari was crisp and delicious.

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The server came over shortly after our appetizer plates were cleared to drape lobster bibs over us. Such service! And when the MONSTER lobster came out in pieces, they shelled that bad boy right in front of us. A little awkward, I will admit BUT the young man assisting us was quite the conversationalist once we started to pull some teeth (Where are you from? How do you like working here?) Once our lobster was completely shelled, we went in.

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In hinsdsight, the 4lb lobster was MORE than enough especially after all the starters and the heavy goat cheese and chive mashed potatoes (omg SOOO good), and even as we spooned the last of the mashed potatoes into our mouths and swallowed the last drops of the champagne I couldn’t believe my ears when we both agreed to order dessert.

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One dessert. The coffee and donuts special. A brown paper bag filled with cinnamon sugar dusted donut holes with a chocolate and raspberry dipping sauce. And a cup of coffee

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Fat assness. We ate all of it and considered walking home. We walked for 20 minutes after. We still were disgustingly full.
Now that we are members, I can’t wait to go back! I’d definitely skip the salad though.
Just kidding. I’d do it all over again! (but maybe skip lunch?)

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