16 Jan

One of the only recommendations we had left to try was the one James was saving for last: best salt beef sandwich. Zoe and William told us to go to Katz's Deli - and go hungry, a sentiment echoes by Meredith and Woj last night. So we did, and the sandwich did not disappoint. (Side note: salt beef is called corned beef here. I guess they don't have what we call corned beef). Will post a picture of the giant sandwich, which James could have eaten all by himself but which I ate about a third of. It really was delicious. And it turned out to be the place in which that ridiculous fake orgasm scene was filmed in 'When Harry Met Sally'. Meg Ryan's following us around, I'm sure.

Afterwards, I realised we were in the right neighbourhood for my favourite NYC bookstore, Bluestockings, so we went there and both got a book. We continued our research into the perfect cupcake at Sugar Sweet Sunshine, where James had the Ooey Gooey chocolate cupcake, and I indulged in my new favourite, red velvet. Lattes as well meant that we were all hopped up on sugar and caffeine, which was just as well, as it was absolutely FREEZING (high of -5, and -16 with wind chill. Good God, it was cold). We did a little more shopping - James got some more jeans, and I got some very cool stuff in Free People, including a furry gilet which I am wearing right now, because even on full power heating, the apartment is not fully withstanding NYC's winter.

We were going to go out to Artisanal tonight, but we couldn't get a table. We've booked a Sunday lunchtime slot there for cheese (as well as tomorrow night's table at Olives - yum). So we just ordered some takeaway Indian food online, which hopefully is about to be delivered to our apartment. Don't judge us - if you were here, you wouldn't go out tonight either :)