NYC the Final Frontier

So, as I mentioned in the last post, we were about to eat some dinner after a loooong day of walking around the city and sightseeing. We ate at a place recommended by a friend of Sara's called Five Napkin Burger. They have several of these around the city and it was delicious! It's a gourmet burger place that is always busy, so we waited at least 40 minutes to get a table. It is a little but more pricey than your everyday Chili's or Applebee's though.

I'm sure that the burgers weren't on the healthy side either, but "when in Rome." {haha}
After dinner we headed back to the hotel and got some much needed sleep. Sunday morning we decided to take it a little but slower and slept in for a little while. We headed out for a late breakfast at my favorite NY eatery. Now, eatery might be too strong of a word. Ever since I can remember, my uncle Jeff has worked for Amtrak and gone to many different cities as his route often changes. One of those cities is the ole NYC and he shared a great place to get bagel sandwiches with me a few years ago on my first ever trip to the Big Apple. It's called Al & Am's Grocery. It literally is a small store with a deli counter that is about 8 feet wide and 30 feet deep. It's just a couple blocks up from Penn Station and we were able to head there from the train and grab our yumminess.

That tea is also delicious. I first had it when I spent the summer in China the year after I graduated college. They also have this kind of tea that is warm and, when you open it, the air reacts with molecules in the drink to make it cold. We ate our little meal at one of the places in NY that is dear to my heart: 30 Rock:)

Almost all of my favorite shows are on NBC and a couple of them are even filmed in Rockefeller plaza. We went to the NBC store and got our Jimmy Fallon shirts and my Parks & Rec sweatshirt. They had some other great t-shirts too:

We eventually made it over to our Broadway show as I described a couple of blogs ago. Since we didn't eat lunch, we were starving when we were done! So we headed to a pizza place just a couple blocks away called Carve at a recommendation from another work friend. They had GIANT slices of pizza with all different kinds of toppings, a build your own salad bar, and a glass case with delicious cupcakes in it too!! We each got a salad:

And a slice of pizza:

And a cupcake for later that night when we got to the hotel:

And any trip wouldn't be complete with Sara without stopping at a Godiva store:

Sara has a special kind of membership and gets free stuff almost every month. So, of course, we each had a truffle and a chocolate covered strawberry. :)

So, next time you are in NY, take the time to hit up some of these great places...or let me know about somewhere I should make a point to go next time!!