Times Square, 50th Street Between Ninth and Eighth Avenues

Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

In a city where restaurants turn over so fast that often you don't even bother to remember their names, as in, where did you eat? Oh, you know, that restaurant on the corner of Broadway and whatever. As I was saying, in such a city, I'm always surprised when every ten years or so I see that Seeda Thai still stands. In 1982 when I was a temp at Equitable Life Insurance around the corner on Broadway, my friend June came to town and we had lunch at Seeda Thai. In 1982 Thai food in New York was basically sweet food; think pineapple and marachino cherries. I don't think we had yet heard of pad thai. Be that as it may, I have no recollection of what I ate that day.

So here it still is. I walked on by and over to Thalia where I had my first gin and tonic of the warm weather season. Can't find a link to Thalia that shows its beautiful bar. By the way, they have hooks under the bar that you can hang your bag on. So smart.

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Times Square, 50th Street Between Ninth and Eighth Avenues

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Ah, my destination. Originally, in January, I think, Carolyn and I booked dinner at Chez Napoleon, knowing nothing of it, only because it was across the street from William Finn's Make Me a Song, a theatrical review we thought we were attending. Alas, it turned out that the production had already closed unbeknownst to us since I had ignored the notification from Ticketmaster, thinking it just another annoying email.

Soooooo, we went to a movie instead. No Country For Old Men, a pretty good movie with a really scary villain.

And then we had dinner at Chez Napoleon. Oo la la. This is unrepentant French food, the full fat, uninventive, tried and true version. Snails in garlic butter, the best I've had maybe ever. The night turned out to be pretty fine after all.

So on our recent visit, our third, Ilana also came in celebration of her brand new American citizenship. I guess we should have taken her to, uh, an American place.

Nah.

They had my book.

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Midtown, 50th Street at Madison Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2006 …………………………click to enlarge

And here's the second shot from last Monday's trip to the dentist. Not a Halloween shot.

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