New England

Two meals on the deck in Surry (NH) - it doesn't get much better than this.

Breakfast at Miss Bellows Falls (VT)

Cod and bacon and aioli and other stuff at Burdick's Walpole (NH)

Fried clams at Legal Seafood Boston (NA)

Oyster at a bar at Harvard Square (MA)

Romaine and kale Caesar salad at the same place

"Nicoise" salad, again at Harvard Square

Potato latkes at Zaftigs Brookline (MA)

Fran and Woody's table, Jamaica Plain (MA)

Very nice crispy, Asian style salad at Willoughby (OH)

Mexico

Excellent hotel food in Mexico City (Hotel Geneve) above.

This very authentic Mexican restaurant was written up by the New York Times - in the 1960's. Still very good (we went twice).

Hotel breakfast.

We arrived in Acapulco to a house party.

Joe had bought a goat.

Went fishing in Joe's mega boat (that's Joe on the left) and had it three ways for dinner

Light dinner the next night.

Hotel food in Mexico City (above and below)

Pulled pork and mole.

Breakfast before departure.

Chicago

Lao Sze Chuan - chili pepper chicken (so HOT and so delicious).

Union - Sea Urchin ice cream (savory).

Han202 (new Chinese) - menu

Han202 - amuse

Han202 - salad

Han202 - salad

Han202 - duck

Han202 - calamari

Han202 - Chinese something (kind of disappointing actually)

Han202 - dessert

Han202 - dessert

Girl and the Goat - breakfast (scallion pancake, egg, pork belly, etc.)

Flo and Santos - "Flying" pork wings

Eataly - antipasti

Eataly - pizza

Nightwood - agnoletti (didn't look like much quantity but turned out to be satisfying and delicious).

 Nightwood - salad

Nightwood - "pulled" mozzarella

Nightwood - fried smelts

 

Nightwood - pasta and clams

 Nightwood - sirloin

 Nightwood - duck

Nightwood - striped bass, 45 minute egg, dungeness crab sauce, crispy onions (outstanding).

 Nightwood - dessert

Nightwood - dessert

Nightwood - dessert

Brooklyn

Franny's Pizza in Brooklyn - absolutely amazing:

Another Eataly

A second visit to Eataly was (for me) another first: raw, shaved asparagus.

Here is my take:

Asparagus, romano, (olive) oil, lemon zest, lime juice (have I previously mentioned Nellie and Joe's Key West Lime Juice?), Hawaiian Black Lava Sea Salt (thank you Kathy).

An excellent summer dish - if you have the time. Shaving the asparagus isn't quick - partly because I had thin asparagus. I used a vegetable peeler but ended up cutting them into fifths or quarters with a knife that could be sharper.