Some people wake up early to go to work, some others for school, or even to catch a flight… but I woke up to meet up my girl for breakfast.
I know we are insane, but she is leaving for Turkey and we still haven’t done our “Breakfast at Balthazar.” So we decided to meet up at 7.30am.
If you have ever been to New York you should know that Balthazar is a restaurant that is always busy . You can “book” a table, if anyone answers to the phone, so you better go and put your name on the list. Every time we go there we become very creative to get quickly a table: we pretended that we had a booking and made a scandal, charmed the hostess (male or female), or even tipped the hostess.
But this morning no need to do all that…I was the first customer:) So picked my favorite table which is the corner booth, ordered my coffee and waited for my girl. Our typical breakfast is eggs benedicts, with extra hollandaise sauce on the side and crispy bacon… I know a very light way to start the day.
Do you remember when I told you sometimes I don’t wait for the week-end for my brunch fix? Well it was one of those days…
It was yummy as usual, if you go for lunch I highly advise you their fresh oysters from the bar and French Fries!!! And for the cold days their Onion Soup looks amazing, I am always sad that I cannot digest onion cause the cheese crouton on top of the soup looks to die for.
I would love to talk about the crowd, but beside us two crazies there were 5 other people… but normally it is full of everything: tourists, shoppers, or people meeting for business breakfast (not 7.30 am though) or lunch.
We ate and chatted until 9.30am and walked in Soho a little while to digest. As the stores open at only 10am, it was a great for my shopping diet… I can watch but not buy
If I continue this restaurant marathon, believe me I might need to do a serious food diet as well!!!