So I am realizing that the intentions of going out to dinner every weekend on a college students budget is a little difficult. So these posts may be less frequent than I would have liked. Regardless, I had a busy week that was full of new adventures.
A few of my classmates and I went to New York for the College Art Association conference in New York City. Seeing so many professionals in a field I want to work in was inspiring and motivating. I definitely came back with a drive to work even harder in school. We had a lot of downtime in between the panel discussions, so I got to see a fair bit of the city. Dinner on Thursday night was delicious for two reasons- the food was genuinely wonderful, but we also had been walking around in the cold and wind and were desperate just to sit down and eat. We found a little Italian restaurant on 44th street called Gallo Nero. For being so small, this quaint little eatery has a lot of rustic charm, with wonderful, homemade food to go with it.
I had a glass of Rose with my dinner, which was a special of home-made tagliatelle pasta with shrimp in a vodka sauce. The pasta was incredible- perfectly al dente. The sauce and shrimp were well-seasoned.
The desert was my favorite part of the whole meal. A pear tart with coconut ice cream. The pastry dough was light and fluffy, and the custard and pears were just sweet enough. I was pleasantly surprised with how delicious the coconut ice cream was with the pear. It was clearly real coconut, no artificial flavoring. The whole dinner was delicious, and paired with the small space and rustic ambience, I felt like I was in a little cafe in Italy.
