Showing posts with label pommes frites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pommes frites. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2009

waiting for weekend

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with no days of pre-call or post-call, it is a full work week. meh.

last night i went out for pommes frites and dollar-sushi. (yes, you read that right. dollar-sushi). first stop, pommes frites. i may have to eat fries every week until i have tried all the dipping sauces. last night, we had the cheese sauce, sundried tomato mayo, & parmesan peppercorn mayo. the next ones i want to try are mango chutney mayo and grilled eggplant mayo. (as per recommendations). second stop, dollar-sushi. it may sound totally sketchy, but it was surprisely o-k. the place was packed, which is generally a good sign. after, i was too lazy to walk to butter lane to get "the better cupcake." (next time...)

tonight, i was contemplating checking out barney's warehouse sale which started today. after reading some stories online of the queue to get in this morning and the lack of any worthy sales, i passed and decided to check out the saja sample sale in the lower east side. i'm glad i did. although the sample sale was a disaster with absolutely no rhyme or reason to the way merch was put on the racks...there were a lot of great deals. trying to look thru the racks was deadly. i don't know why, but there were a lot of tiny asian girls there. and asian girls can get mean when they are shopping for deals, peoples. i snagged this small sized dress (which were few, most of the merch was size 6), as angry little asian girls watched with envy.

saja cowl neck dress in moss print. (retail $470! who would pay this, really?!!) sample sale $70


finally friday tomorrow! want to try one of ippudo or jewel bako .

this weekend: visitors! saturday night booked at bouley. the tasting menu. all i can say is, it better be good, peoples. it better be really good.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

sweetface & laura merkin

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earlier this week i checked out the sweetface sample sale. there were good deals to be had with jennifer lopez's contemporary line sweetface, seeing that the line was cancelled earlier this year. i picked up this emerald silk dress.

the detailing is all in the back, with ruffled straps and an asymmetrical ruffle down the back of the dress.


today i was post-call and after lunch in koreatown, i headed to the lauren merkin sample sale after hearing that there was a great collection of discounted clutches up for grabs. true to word. i got this one.

lauren merkin tatum patent croc amethyst clutch.

i also stopped by the frank tell sample sale (which only had 10 pieces for sale, i kid you not) and the cynthia rowley sale. the cynthia rowley dresses were greatly discounted, all pretty much under $100, but i didn't see anything that i liked.


now for food thoughts....


momofuku milk bar review:
cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie. surprisingly, a fan.
compost cookie. not a fan.
banana cake (banana cream, hazelnut crunch, gianduja fudge). huge fan.
crack pie (toasted oat crust, gooey butter filling). not good at all.


being a huge french fry fan, it's surprising that i haven't tried this place yet. i pass by it everytime i'm in the east village since it's so close to my cousin's place. 25 different dipping sauces?! and poutine?!! yes.

i may have to have french fries for dinner one night next week.