Food & Drinks
Explorations of food and drink through craft, experience, and the systems behind hospitality and taste that is the best around.
Happy Hartz
Sultry Sunday Scallop at Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co.
Zenkichi Valentine’s Omakase with Bae
Zenkichi Valentine’s Day Menu
Valentine’s Week Omakase
8-Course Special Tasting Menu
$120



蛤のお味噌汁
Hamaguri Littleneck Clam Miso Soup

前菜五種
Assorted Chilled Plates:
熊本オイスター
Kumamoto Oyster
ズワイ蟹の酢の物 蟹味噌添え
Hokkaido Zuwai Snow Crab Sunomono
鮟肝の旨煮
Ankimo Uma-ni
本鮪のタルタル キャビアと共に
Bluefin Tuna Tartar & Caviar
寒鯖の箱寿司
Kansaba Winter Mackerel Hako-zushi

シェフお薦めのお造り三点盛り
Three Kinds of Chef’s Premium Sashimi
Kanpachi Amberjack, Kagoshima, Japan
Kinmedai Bigeye Snapper, Shizuoka, Japan
Lightly Seared King Salmon, Alaska

雲丹と海苔の大葉包み天麩羅
Uni & Nori Seaweed Tempura

銀鱈西京焼
Saikyo Miso Cod

神戸牛フィレミニョンステーキ
黒トリュフ添え
Kobe Beef Filet Mignon Steak & Truffle

ハドソンバレーフォアグラ丼
Hudson Valley Foie Gras Donburi

黒ゴマのフローズンチョコレートムース
Frozen Black Sesame Mousse
Squad Goals Achieved Nomo Soho


Marikorico Cocktial $16
Rooibos Tea Infused Plantation 3* Rum, Orgeat Syrup Velvet Falernum, Lime, Pineapple, Tiki Bitters
Brunch’n with Bae at the Smile NYC
A new neighborhood favorite called Cherry Point
The Meal
TGIF & a Sweet Rob Roy Cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 shots Scotch
- 1 shot sweet vermouth
- 2 dashes of Angostura bitters
- 2 drops lemon juice
- 1 lemon peal
Directions
- Mix liquor into a shaker or bar glass and stir with ice
- Add to Martini or Low Ball Glass
- Garnish with Lemon peal
What’s in a Name?
According to Wikipedia there is a story to this drink with two first names.
The Rob Roy is a cocktail created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York City. The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor. (source)
Sunday Laduree macaroons & monsters
Almost Winter Healthy with Sweetgreen
I ended up saving half the salad for the next day and using the bread for some homemade soup.
Club Coffee Break
There’s a particular calm that settles in when you give yourself permission to pause.
Club Coffee Break wasn’t loud or rushed. It was the soft scrape of a chair, the steady cool of a marble tabletop, and the warm, textured weight of brick walls holding the room in place. A simple moment: sleeves rolled down, hands around a clear cup, ice shifting quietly as the straw leans off-center—like the day tilting into something gentler.
I like spaces like this because they feel lived alongside you. Not staged, not sterile. Just steady. The kind of corner where you can watch your thoughts move without needing to chase them. You sit for a minute and notice the small mechanics of being human: the way you grip the cup when you’re thinking, the way light lands on a patterned shirt, the way a break can feel like a reset.
Coffee, especially in the middle of an ordinary day, becomes less about caffeine and more about marking time. A small ritual that says: I’m here, and this is enough for now.
If you’ve been moving too fast lately, consider this your reminder to stop somewhere quiet, let the ice melt, and let the world keep spinning without you for a moment.