A Foodie New York Weekend: Healthy Eating

Vino at Lunch in Eatlay

As I had mentioned in my Friday post my daughter and I spent a foodie weekend in New York City. We stayed in the Flatiron District which is near Chelsea Market home of Food Network and Union Square which hosts an expansive green market all year. I highly recommend the restaurant ABC Kitchen which is located around the block from Union Square and specializes in seasonal and locally grown foods that it gets mostly from the green market.

Many vendors are organic at this greenmarket.

This bakery's cookbook is our bread baking bible.

Entrance to Chelsea Market

No coincidence that food network is located in a food market.

From the show on Foodnetwork: Food Truck Winner.

Inside Chelsea Market

With my personal preference for Mediterranean cooking especially Italian visiting Eataly was a must stop. When you enter Eataly it looks like you have just stumbled into a terrific coffee shop. If you didn't know that you had just entered an Italian eating emporium you would be shocked to see that the coffee shop doesn't end... it leads into a cheese shop and antipasto restaurant that continues into a butcher shop and then leads you to a produce section attached to a fish restaurant, a pasta store, olive oils, it just keeps going on and on... a never ending maze of Italian foods and every where you look there are tables set up and people eating... it made my Italian heart happy to see so many people enjoying the foods of my heritage.

If you find yourself in New York City I highly recommend a quick bite or maybe a small gelato on your way downtown... you won't regret the stop. And good news for those of you nearer to Chicago Eatlay is in the works for this city.