Quite possibly the best 24 hours of 2007 (“He looks like Tom Cruise”)

by Tyler.

So these past 24 hours have been spent eating great food and in wonderful company.

Dinner last night: Café Steinhof with Dev. We split a red cabbage salad with ham and Brie, chicken paprika for Devon and bread dumplings with mushroom fricassee for myself.

This morning: a wonderful country kitchen breakfast: Dutch pancake, apple chicken sausage and an omelet with Gloucester cheese.

A walk to Sahadi’s with Dev to look at the glorious olive bar and cheese… oh, and to buy hummus and a tomato-feta and eggplant-roasted pepper pastry (the tomato-feta was mind blowing). While looking at cheese, a worker told Dev that I looked like Tom Cruise (I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad).

From Sahadi’s, we found Marquet Patisserie and indulged in a white mousse cake, brownie and chocolate chip cookie (while it was all delicious, I wish we walked the extra few blocks to find Sweet Melissa). We ate our treats in a park on Smith Street and watch the kids play on the lovely springlike day.

We walked back through Park Slope where were stopped in Gorilla to get some tea. We sipped our tea until we arrived at the Laurelton.

Now I’m watching my friend Robb’s daughter, Agatha while finishing my beef nagikmaki, miso soup and Kiwi roll from Oshima.