Sunday included a late matinee show, plus a supermeal at Daniel Restaurant.
Daniel features a nine-course tasting menu that is set, or a five-course tasting menu where you
have options with each course. We chose the latter, and got different things for each course,
to have the maximum number of different tastes.
The Outsiders is based on the 1967 book of the same name, and was very well done.
It is a musical based on the conflicts between kids from both sides of the tracks, and was very moving.
Even Kimberly cried.
That night, we made our way uptown to Daniel, a two-Michelin-star restaurant.
The five course tasting menu options.
Before we even got started, we got these four different amuse bouche bites. Each of them was
a work of art in itself.
They kept on bringing us fresh bread, and we ended up eating three rolls each, including this
wonderful brioche.
For the first course, Kimberly got the duck (foie gras) ballotine with figs...
...and Wade got the crab salad, carefully hidden under these little stars of peppers and hearts of palm.
For the second course, Kimberly got the Maine lobster etuvee..
...and Wade got the seafood fricasse "open raviolo" with a variety of things on top.
The treat of the night: Kimberly's black sea bass was just an explosion of flavor...
...and Wade had the bluefin tuna with arugula and broccoli sauces.
For the fourth course, Kimberly had the strip loin with sauces...
...and Wade had another favorite: on the right is two quail breasts somehow merged together and
stuff with foie gras before being roasted.
If it looks like we are lit, it's because we are. Since we ordered different things, we each got
five different wine pours to accompany them.
Kimberly's dessert: chocolate madeleine with roasted figs and sunflower honey cacao nib ice cream.
Wade's dessert: Bolivian dark chocolate mousse, hojicha ice cream and yogurt meringue sauce.
As if that wasn't enough, we also had a cheese course, and they brought a slice of lemon polenta birthday cake...
...along with some other truffles and treats to finish with.
It was so over the top, we decided to walk the 26 blocks back to the hotel instead of taking the metro.
We needed to get our stomachs and our heads back onto this planet.
Here is a beautifully-lit church off of Park Avenue.