I just finished up a quick trip to NYC to celebrate a family member’s birthday.

Lunch at Jean-Georges was good, I still maintain that the service has gotten a lot better but food has slipped a bit. I started with the uni starter on toast with yuzu and chili. I then had the sweet and sour sweetbreads as my main and finished off with the berry dessert. My dining companion had the bacon wrapped gulf shrimp as his starter, the salmon as the main, and the chocolate dessert.

Dinner was was supposed to be at The Modern, but the Midtown blackout put an end to that... they handled it very well though, we sat in their lounge having drinks trying to figure out a backup and they got us into Gramercy Tavern with about a 20 minute wait. Dinner there was great as usual, but I did think the service was a tad more removed than usual.