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Activities
Our Favorite Brunch Spot: Balthazar
Balthazar is a traditional French Brasserie with a bustling railway station atmosphere. The kitchen serves a variety of meat and poultry dishes including: Duck Shepherds Pie and Steak Frites. Balthazar also specializes in seafood with an array of fish entrees and a complete raw oyster and shellfish bar.
Our Favorite Dishes:
Scrambled Eggs in Puff Pastry
with wild mushrooms and asparagus
Le Panier
basket full of freshly baked breads and pastries from Balthazar's bakery
Our Favorite Japanese Restaurant: Gyu Kaku - Midtown
Gyu Kaku is a Japanese Barbecue restaurant with several locations in Manhattan. Here you are your own chef, cooking tasty morsels to your liking right at your table. It combines food and fun whether you're here on a date or with friends and family this restaurant is a must.
Our Favorite Spot for a Quick Bite: Parm on Mulberry Street
Parm is a full service restaurant that celebrates classic Italian-American cuisine. With restaurants on the Upper West Side, Battery Park, and SoHo, Parm features appetizers like baked clams and fried calamari, pastas, and entrees such as chicken parm and whole orata.
Lindsay & Joey are obsessed with the freshly made mozzarella sticks. For entrees Joey usually opts for the chicken parm over spicy rotini pasta and Lindsay, the ten layer eggplant parm.
Our Top Pick for a NYC Hidden Gem: The Back Room
The Back Room aims to give its patron the authentic experience of a speak easy in the 1920's. This hideaway has a prohibition-esque vibe serving cocktails in tea cups and beer in brown paper bags.
Our Favorite Broadway Shows:
Aladdin
The Book of Mormon
For Broadway fans, visiting New York City's theater district is a must. From the hustle of the Port Authority Bus Terminal to the bustle of 42nd Street and Time Square, much of New York's vibrancy and energy emanates from this area.
Our Favorite Rooftop Lounge: Upstairs at the Kimberly Hotel
Situated thirty stories above street level the Upstairs rooftop lounge offers breathtaking views of Midtown. This setting is perfect for evening cocktails or even weekend brunch. The experience here is unparalleled.
Our Favorite Dessert: Palachinka at Ristorante Grifone
A tried and true East Side option since 1985, Grifone is a Northern Italian restaurant that flies under the radar. Its menu is extensive, but here Joey and Lindsay cannot get enough of the palachinka dessert with a small shot of Mario's homemade grappa.
Other Places We Like to Dine
Nello
A casual yet sophisticated restaurant serving fine Italian Cuisine.
Our Favorite: Risotto ai Funghi Selvatici
The Smith
An American Brasserie with three locations in New York City.
Joey's Favorite: Candied Bacon
Lindsay's Favorite: Sicilian Baked Eggs
Sicilian Baked Eggs
Artichokes,
Burrata, Spinach, Spicy Tomato Sauce, & Ciabatta
Our Favorite Pizza Spot: Rubirosa Ristorante
Rubirosa is located in the heart of Nolita and its customers bridge the gap between the old and new neighborhood regulars. Its take on Italian-American classics feature a wide array of pastas made fresh in house daily and a 56 year old recipe for thin crust pizza. The homey and comfortable ambiance is great for family style group dining or a quick bite at the bar paired with one of their signature cocktails.
Lindsay & Joey's Must Have:
Tie-Dye Pizza
Vodka, Tomato, Pesto, and Fresh Mozzarella
Our Favorite Low-Key Bar: The Daily
The Daily is a cocktail bar serving drinks that are "made on honor, sold on merit." The menu consists of modern interpretations of classic drinks and an ever-changing selection of creative tapas. Here Lindsay and Joey like to indulge in a Hendricks Gin & Tonic.
Our Favorite Sports Team: New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team located in the New York Metropolitan area. They are a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
MetLife Stadium opened as the New Meadowlands Stadium in 2010 and shortly thereafter in 2011, MetLife, an insurance company based in New York City, acquired the naming rights to the stadium. At a construction cost of approximately $1.6 billion, it is the most expensive stadium ever built and is the second largest stadium in the NFL in terms of seating capacity – it holds a whopping 82,566 seats!
In a unique arrangement for the league, the Jets share MetLife Stadium in East Rutherfrod, New Jersey with the New York Giants. It is the only NFL stadium shared by two teams. MetLife and the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), are the only current facilities to house two teams from the same sports league in the US.
2016 New York Jets Home Football Schedule
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 7:30 PM TV TBA
Preseason Game - Jacksonville Jaguars at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Saturday, August 27, 2016 - 7:30 PM TV TBA
Preseason Game - New York Giants at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Sunday, September 11, 2016 - 1:00 PM CBS
Cincinatti Bengals at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Sunday, October 2, 2016 - 1:00 PM FOX
Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
* Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 1:00 PM CBS
Baltimore Ravens at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ *
Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 1:00 PM FOX
Los Angeles Rams at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Sunday, November 27, 2016 - 8:30 PM NBC
New England Patriots at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 8:30 PM ESPN
Indianapolis Colts at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Saturdat, December 17, 2016 - 8:25 PM NFLN
Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Sunday, January 1, 2017 - 1:00 PM CBS
Buffalo Bills at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Asterik (*) denotes our first LIVE game as Mr. & Mrs. Camerata