This is from a visit in August for a family of 4 with kids ages 8 and 10. The day before this was our big pizza crawl, but this day was more for sightseeing. “before” picture on the left was taken at 9 am and “after” picture was taken at 7 pm.
We started our day with a trip to The Met. Before the museum opened, we had breakfast at the UES Breads Bakery for croissants, and egg sandwiches. After Breads we walked to Orwashers for black & white cookies. (Don’t worry, a local friend gave us a hard time for missing that laminated b&w at Breads.)
Two lunches for us… first stop was Pastrami Queen for the Hot Pastrami Platter and fries. After that, headed to Xi’an Famous Foods to fully saturate ourselves in spicy oil. We got the N2 (my daughter won’t eat lamb because that’s what her lovey is 😇) and dumplings.
For the afternoon we headed to Hudson Yards for bubble tea at Xin Fu Tang. All the other food options there were pretty much a bust, so we got Cava and Emperor Dumpling (not pictured) on our walk back to the hotel. (Side note: we ended up going to emperor dumpling and the halal cart by our hotel like 4 times on this trip. My kids loved those.) We usually try to plan better and not to go to national chains like Cava, but it was a bit of a pinch.
We finished the day with a Statue of Liberty cruise and stopped at the DiFara pizza by the pier (I just saw they closed!). We enjoyed it and went to the Tin Building after for desserts.
My step count for the day was 27,967 but it apparently wasn’t enough to counteract the bloat from all that food. The next day was our LES Bakery Crawl and a trip to Brooklyn for more bakeries and pizza.
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