Alice's Tea Cup: Chapter I

Alice's Tea Cup:

Chapter I

102 West 73rd St. New York, NY, 10023

+1 212 799 3006

Alice's Tea Cup is one of the sweetest place in NYC. It is a small bakery store, restaurant and tea house. Alice's Tea Cup has 3 branches; two in Upper East and one in Upper West side. They will be on our blog either in the future.

 Let's turn back to Chapter I.  Alice's Tea Cup: Chapter I, welcomes guests with a small bakery and a store.  Delicious cakes, cookies, scones, cupcakes and numerous teas.... Everything looks very fresh and delicious. Store has vast array of items.  It is great place to look some gifts for friends, family and of course for children. Decoration is whimsical. Everything reminds the Alice in Wonderland story.

They prefer to use wood furnishing, which makes place warm and homy. Touch of decorated pots and plates makes place warmer.

We went to Alice's Tea Cup in a Saturday morning in order to have a brunch. We tasted Smoked salmon & scones, Alice's Curious French Toast and Crepe. All dishes are not only grandiose but also satisfying. The most impressive thing is the tea menu. It consists of 15 pages of wide range of teas. It is really difficult to choose. We tried Anna's Earl Grey and Alice's Tea. 

Alice's Tea Cup is absolutely the best place for children too. It is the perfect place to take your children or guests to have breakfast, lunch or a tea. Also, Alice's Tea Cup provides sweet party rooms for memorable parties.

http://www.alicesteacup.com/

Dinner at Barbetta Restaurant

BARBETTA

321 West 46th street, New York, NY, 10036

+1 212 246 9171

Barbetta is the oldest Italian restaurant in New York City, which was founded in 1906. This 107 year old historic place is owned by Maioglio Family. Today, Laura Maioglio who is the daughter of Sebastian Maioglio, founder of Barbetta, has taken over her family business since 1964.

Barbetta is one of the few restaurants that serve Piemonte (the Piedmont) style cuisine in New York. In the menu there are typical Piemonte dishes such as Fonduta, Carne Cruda, Bagna Cauda and Bue al Barolo. White Truffes from Piemonte is also served in autumn or winter time. The most remarkable thing is that, each dish is noted the year in which it was first served at Barbetta. Other impressive thing is Barbetta's awarded wine list, which consists of thousands of labels. 

Laura Maioglio decorated glamorous interior of Barbetta. She used 18th century antiques and combined these pieces very well. Maioglio created calm and elegant atmosphere from the entrance hall through the main dining room. With special pieces that are used from her own collection, she created an Italian Palazzo at the center of the Times Square. Fine touch of Maioglio is seen entire townhouse and also each private party room.

Barbetta has also romantic and lovely garden.

At the restaurant, choosing wine among wide array of wines is harder than choosing dishes but waiters are very helpful and affable. As dinner we preferred to eat traditional Piemontese dishes such as Agnoletti and Risotto alla Piemontese with wild Porcini mushrooms. Gnocchetti ai formaggi Piemontesi was our another choice. Each dish is very special, delicious and very Italian. 

Before the end of our satisfactory dinner, we wanted to try a dessert. We choose dessert from the appetizing looking service trolley. Our choice was Creme Brulee and it was also very tasteful.

  Having a dinner at Barbetta was tasteful and eye-pleasing experience. Beside eating delicious Italian foods and tasting great vintage wines, being in a hundred years old antique atmosphere was delightful. 

http://www.barbettarestaurant.com/