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Bad Mood Factory

Last night we had a similar meal to Monday's: "Wild Blend" rice with pine nuts and raisins (in mine), sauteed red chard, baked sweet potatoes with whipped butt and grilled portobello mushrooms. As a small appetizer we had some cheese and tomatoes with olive oil and basalmic vinegar. To drink we had the wonderful Looza brand mango juice; it's the best one! For two days in a row we've eaten really healthily and we're trying to keep this trend up.

P told me about her trip to Grimaldi's, the famed Brooklyn pizzeria. I haven't been there but i sure do want to try it out. Besides the long line to get a table at Grimaldi's, there isn't much around besides the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (another place i want to try out).* P informed me that you can only buy a whole pie, no single or multiple slices. They have a thin crust, use fresh mozzarella and crushed tomatoes. She ordered a sausage pie and really enjoyed it. I've been lucky enough to live near great pizza in Brooklyn and Queens; the Park Slope place that used sesame seeds on their crust is now a fancy restaurant, but the Dino's on Broadway in Astoria is still around and still great. be used to go there as a kid and it's still his favorite slice. Check out this pizza blog.

Tonight, due to bad moods and bad things at work, be and i ate dinner at Sushi Park on 2nd Ave in the East Village. Their sushi is hit or miss but generally good for the price. It's 1/2 off if everyone orders at least $14 worth of sushi or rolls. be likes to go there to fill up on sushi when he's in a BM since that's his favorite food. There's a sushi place by our house called Tokyo II on 31st St under the N train, which offers an all-u-can-eat deal for $15.95. It's never crowded and we're worried they might go out of business, but the sushi and rolls are very good. They also have more vegetarian options than most places.

* I love the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory! It's a small, family-owned business that makes all the ice cream flavors by hand. They have "exotic" flavors like vanilla and chocolate but try the regular flavors like coconut and almond cookie. The mango/papaya sorbet is awesome!

posted by beXn @ 11:07 PM