Keste, Cones, and a Few Movies

Keste, 11:30pm Friday

It doesn't take much to make me happy. Friday with Zubair. First, pizza at Keste, then Cones, followed by a night of movies on the projector. Laidback, lowkey. Simple is best :)


Keste was packed, even close to midnight, but we were lucky enough to get the table closest to the window, looking out onto Bleecker. It's BYOB now (take advantage!), so we went across the street to grab a few beers. Adam over at Slice did a great review on Keste - read it here. We shared two pizzas, the first: Mozzarella, Prosciutto, Basil, and Cherry Tomatoes. But it was really the second that was worth swooning over.

BURRATA! SO MUCH burrata! It was ridiculous. It was special of the night: burrata, basil and cherry tomatoes. I wasn't expecting them to be generous with the burrata, so you could imagine my (very excited) surprise when out came a pizza that nearly bubbled over with the warm, creamy cheese. Bliss, bliss, bliss. I was actually craving a bit of pesto on top of this, but I suppose that would take away from the purity of the pizza, heheh. One can dream. We wolfed this number down in a matter of seconds and it took all my will not to order another.

Then across the street to Cones where he picked Corn (top) and I, Tiramisu (bottom). The two flavours on their own are fantastic (especially the corn), though I'm not sure if I'd combine the two again.

Pizza + Gelato (or ice cream, custard, soft serve) have got to be my all time favourite dinner and dessert combination. Perhaps that's why I love living in NYC so much...for all the pizza and frozen sweets!

The possibilities are endless...
Bleecker Street Pizza + L'arte del Gelato
Artichoke + Momo Milk Bar
Luzzo's + Sundaes & Cones
Vinny Vincenz + ChikaLicious
Co. + Subway Ride + Cones
DiFaras + Longer Subway Ride + Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (or I guess Grimaldi's is more convenient location-wise, but I'm not a great fan of Grimaldi's).
Lombardi's + Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
(I still have not yet visited Una Pizza Napoletana...)


P.S.
Look at this Chow Chow I spotted Saturday afternoon...too cute for words ^_^

Keste Pizza & Vino
271 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
(212) 243-1500

Cones
272 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
(212) 414-1795

Just Wanted To Say, Congrats to Jessica!! :)

...on her ICE Culinary graduation this Sunday! Below, a few of my favourite photos from the evening.

This girl is nothing short of amazing :)

Jess, myself, and Robyn.

Jessica's savoury dish of the night ->

Thai Pulled Pork Lettuce Wraps with Pickled Vegetables, Spicy Mayo and Sesame Cilantro Breadcrumbs.

...and some very awesome Fried Curried Corn Dumplings with Coconut Cream.

Congrats, Jess! :D

@ Greg's: Moffles & Okonomiyaki

This photo sums up Wednesday evening at Greg's just about right :)
Robyn attacks, Greg cooks, and I lurk in background.

We gathered for a night of MOFFLES...aka mochi-waffles. See HERE, HERE, and HERE for more background.

Scroll below for photos.

Greg bought three types of mochi for our first moffle adventure - plain, red bean, and mungwort. The process of making moffles (and oohhing over their transformation in the waffle iron) was more fun than actually eating them.

Robyn summed it up accurately, saying they, "tasted like crispy rice bits." Granted, we did little in the topping department which was our fault. You could really go all out with these...honey, butter, NUTELLA, sugar. Or go savoury with the ham and cheese route. Moffle sandwiches!

Here's the red bean and mungwort mochi...almost pau.

Acutally, the moffles just bored us and failed to capture interest for long.

So Greg topped pieces of mochi with bitty butter pats and toasted away.

We enjoyed these much more :)

And then it was onto real food!

Greg, the waffle genius, and now, okonomiyaki master did all the cooking that night - many props to him for keeping our bellies full and happy...

...with plenty of pork...

...and even more kewpie mayo - huzzah!

I'd say it was a pretty swell night ^_^