We get our brows shaped and tinted with Heidi at Benefit. I think Heidi is great and leave pleased. M's experience is a little less favorable. She goes to Bloomingdales and is accosted by people at the various cosmetics counters. Two different people tell her that one eyebrow is darker than the other, so she later returns to Heidi to get it fixed. But these same people get her in a chair, and slather her with the world's best ointments, oils, and neck creme.
"Such a difference."
"Here, look in the mirror."
"Check out how good your neck looks." (Not that it looked bad before).
"If you can only get one thing, you must get the neck creme. It is amazing."
It's also $600. M passes.
At 8:30, appropriately primped and shaped, we meet M's son Sam and his girlfriend Josie for dinner at Park Avenue Winter, one of my favorite restaurants. It's restaurant week and many of the city's best restaurants have $38 prix fixe 3-course meals. Ours is amazing, even with half the ingredients being things I've never heard of.
Here are our appetizers.
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Josie's kale and manchego salad with chorizo and chestnut honey |
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| Sam and M get the squash soup with toasted pepitas |
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| my scallop sandwich |
The main course.
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| Josie's amish chicken with savoy cabbage and black garlic vinaigrette |
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| Sam and M's braised short rib with roots and aliums |
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| my everything-crusted branzino (inspired by the everything bagel) with smoked cream cheese and pickled onions |
And then of course dessert.
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| the Park Avenue Chocolate Cube is the clear winner |
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