Karen’s on Astor Place, surrounded by scaffolding…
Ok, well, it wasn’t exactly breakfast. As we were making our way out to Williamsburg via the L Train and Union Square yesterday early afternoon, we were getting very conscious of the fact that we were yet to fill our bellies with a beautiful NY breakfast.
We were also feeling a bit worse for wear after having an epic day of walking and frozen margueritas the night before.
So we headed to Karen’s on Astor Place, between Broadyway & Lafayette, a vegan and meateater friendly establishment that smells of HEALTH as you walk in the door. Honestly! We were greeted by a tremendous waft of wheatgrass, which was not entirely unpleasant.
I went for a delicious acovado and salad sambo – beautiful crisp tasty salad leaves and lovely lush avocado – and Niall went for an egg salad sambo.
My saviour for the morning was the giant pint of green stuff entitled The Green Goddess. It was a mixture of spirulina, soy protein, banana, apple and one other outrageously healthy ingredient that I can’t recall. It looked vile but it was really delicious, although it did have the same texture as grass and was not unlike drinking a freshly mown lawn.
It set us up for our trip to Williamsburg, wherein we said “DRATBA” everytime we saw a hipster. Needless to say, we were saying it a lot. But Williamsburg was cool and I’m planning on going to SEA on Sunday for lunch. It’s a Thai restaurant with a swimming pool inside it. And I’ve been told a scene from Garden State was filmed there. Nice.
We popped into a pet store as our friend Sean wanted to get a ball toy for his terrier Bad Bass Billy. In the store we found some pretty amazing looking Dog Food.
The ones on the left are ‘Puppy Plates’ or ‘Venison Holiday Stew’ and the ones on the right are ‘Working Dog Stew’ and ‘Mediterranean Banquet’. Lucky dogs!
Okay. On recommendation from Rayne from Lo-Lu’s Kitchen, I’m heading to Dizzy’s Diner in Brooklyn for brekkie – gonna get me some waffles. Yesssssss!!!
