Happy Anniversary!

Those of you who know us well know that we are all about cheap eats! We would take a train for an hour to find small restaurants.
But once or twice a year, we like dressing up and go to restaurants like Morimoto.
This time our excuse was our wedding anniversary.

It was relatively easy to make a reservation, unlike Nobu.
And staff was very accommodating. We were seated in the corner next to a very annoying couple, so we asked to be moved, and the manager got us a new table in 2 minutes.

But food...
Fish quality was great. They are supposed to be shipped from Tsukiji Market, so they better be good. However, other dishes were not that impressive.

I am sure Masaharu Morimoto is talented; however, I think that his restaurant is more of a hype than anything else. People were there to be seen. Teenagers were taking pictures of themselves with flash. It was a restaurant for a Food TV generation! - generation that has made chefs celebrities!

Ok... chocolate cake was very good...

Morimoto
88 10th Avenue
212 989 8883

Brussels, Belgium

When we were shopping around for tkts for Morocco (besides the fact that I was missing my airline days), the cheapest one we found had a stopover on the way home in Brussels. I had never been to Brussels, and Christoff didn't mind a stop in Brussels, so we ended up saving $300 per person on our tkts.

It was a nice transition from Morocco - clean and weather was cooler, until we started noticing different problems. People were starting at me instead of Christoff.
And I almost got into a fight at a chocolate shop with an employee there. Let me just say that they don't like people like me... Don't get me wrong, I still like Europe, I still like Belgium, one of my favorite places in Europe, but I couldn't stop thinking.... 'I don't miss this about Europe.'

On a lighter note, our flight was delayed in the morning, so we had about 3 hours to kill. I was tired, so I didn't want to go back out to the city, but Christoff insisted. I knew that if I didn't go with him, he would have gone by himself, so I reluctantly followed. We checked all our bags except for tagine, so we only had to find a small locker. We took a train out to the city, which was really easy (welcome to Europe), and had nice breakfast there and did a bit of chocolate shopping - my favorite chocolate is Belgian chocolate - that's quite something considering I used to work for a Swiss company for 6 years.

I have to say, though, our modest breakfast was 24 EURO.
That's why we don't plan a trip to Europe, at least not for a while....