Thursday, February 4, 2010

An afternoon in SoHo





Our first trip to the city this year was on a cold but sunny day at the very end of January. We headed to SoHo to meet up with a couple of friends for brunch at L' Ecole, the restaurant of the French culinary institute. It was a lovely brunch, very reasonable for the a $19.99 prix fixe menu that included an appetizer and the main course. At the end I had to have my favorite dessert of the season, the crème brûlée which was totally delightful.

Then we headed down Broadway indulging in some shopping. This is really a great street for clothes, shoes and accessory shopping. It has a great mix of high end and low end stores with some eclectic boutiques. Among them, I really enjoyed visiting Kiteya, a Japanese store that carried various traditional and fusion items. It is a great place to shop for unusual and interesting gifts. The earrings and bracelets, which were all under $20 especially caught my eye. Inspite of the winter blues, SoHo was a bustling hub of activity as usual. The street vendors too had braved the weather to give SoHo its unique flavor and despite my lack of tolerance for the cold, I was tempted to stop by and admire their assorted collection of jewelery.

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