A FINAL MEAL IN MANHATTAN

We had one final meal left in Manhattan before heading to visit Tom's brother and family in upstate NY. We decided to make it a quick meal since we still had to check out of our hotel and catch a train, and made our last trip over to Bouchon in the hopes of grabbing some breakfast. Unfortunately, we learned that though the Bakery was open, the cafe part of it wasn't, and there weren't many seats open in the bakery area, so we decided to check out Landmarc, just down the hall from Bouchon.

I knew that the Landmarc served 3 meals a day, and after checking out the breakfast menu, I decided that it looked fairly reasonable (by NY standards at any rate). We headed over and after finally getting the attention of the hostesses who were chatting amongst each other, we were seated at a table for 2. The Landmarc is a huge, sprawling restaurant, with a totally industrial look featuring lots of metal and brick. The ceiling is decorated with metal rods, and it has great views of the city. Here's a view of the semi circular bar located behind Tom.

Once we were seated, we were given menus and then were left to wait.

During the time we were waiting to order, I noticed that this huge sprawling restaurant, though pretty empty, was full of beautiful looking staff - basically all aspiring actors and models who chatted amongst themselves and generally ignored any of the diners. When we were finally able to order, we both got a simple breakfast.

Here's my plate of eggs with toast and potatoes.

And it was fine. The eggs were well cooked, the potatoes were crispy and drenched in butter. Tom just got a toasted baguette with butter and jam. Overall, our meal was fine. Though the service kinda sucked (a trend for this entire trip) at least the runner was nice to us. In retrospect, we probably would've enjoyed a simple breakfast at Bouchon more, but luckily, we can just drive up to the original one whenever we feel like it.