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April 13, 2008
Weekend wrap-up
I'd been wanting to go to Ippudo for a while and Adam and I finally made the trek down there on Friday. Not unexpectedly, there were a lot of people waiting for tables and we ended up having to wait about 45 minutes before we were seated. The interior is nice--surprisingly spacious for an East Village restaurant although the nu metal type music didn't really seem to fit the environment. Unfortunately, this represented another NYC ramen disappointment to me--the broth was good but I didn't like the thin noodles and there was only one piece of very fatty pork in my ramen. Definitely not worth a long wait and I thought as we left that the wait for Ippudo slightly echoed the wait for Giordano's in Chicago.
I had wanted to go to the Murakami exhibit when we were in L.A. but didn't get the opportunity to go so I was excited when I found out it was coming to the Brooklyn Museum. We had plans to go to my sister's last night and since she doesn't live too far from the museum, I decided to go. Also a bit of a disappointment--I guess Murakami is one of those artists around which there is so much buzz that I got caught up in the excitement but, actually, I realized I'm not so much a fan of his work. Afterwards, it was a pre-birthday basheroo get-together for Adam (who turns 30 next weekend) at my sister's. We ate tasty Chinese food and I drank way too much wine and sake from which I did not recover until 4 this afternoon (not fun). I did manage, however, to walk over to our local supermarket after I recovered and make chicken biryani I believe for the first time which didn't turn out so badly.
Anyhow, a photo from last night:
Posted by Jennifer at April 13, 2008 08:11 PM