I booked a reservation for 8PM for a special occasion dinner. So the meal had a lot going for it, and a few missteps. Although very tasty, I would have liked it a little lighter, with a slightly more bitter chocolate taste. Lastly, one of us got the chocolate mousse. I was worried there might be too much sour, but that didn't happen to this dish. Two of us got the panna cotta which had wonderful vanilla tones, light delicate texture, and a sour cherry sauce, that enhanced the dish. The pumpkin ravioli dish was also very well done, but I prefer this dish with a less sweet squash such as acorn or butternut. The cookie was doing more for texture than for taste. I was happy that the raison was way in the background, but I would have liked a little more amaretti taste. Al dente pasta, classic sage butter sauce make this a can't miss dish. The casoncelli are pasta packets stuffed with veal, raison, amaretti cookies, in a sage butter pancetta sauce. For the entree course, two of us got the casoncelli and the other member of our group got the pumpkin ravioli. However, the first two salads were too heavily salted. ![]() All dishes had fresh ingredients that played well off each other. The third was buffalo mozzarella, beefsteak tomatoes, and roasted bell peppers. The second was spinach, pancetta, almonds, pecorino cheese, and mustard dressing. The first was romaine salad with speck, apples, walnuts, and gorgonzola cheese. Another cab driver in a yellow Nissan-New York City’s “Taxi of Tomorrow,” the NV200 van-is amazed I can keep up.Three of us came for a restaurant week lunch. The unassisted rack has all the accuracy of a butter churner, but it’s refreshingly alive and full of road feel, allowing you to count every expansion plate and sewer grate on each block. The steering effort is fairly high at low speeds, just like an E92 3-series. With the pedal mashed, the Twizy’s mushy regenerative braking setup disappears and the anvil drops. Then a Prius taxi in my draft suddenly stops, rightfully so, for the next yellow, and I do too. ![]() It’s the Mulsanne straight with Chinese restaurants. I punch the Twizy through a chain of yellow lights on Seventh Avenue, flat out. ![]() Without side windows or insulation and with the asphalt vibrating my ankles through the plastic floorboard, that speed feels more like 55 mph. ![]() Nissan just started renting these cutesy buggies by the hour in San Francisco, and while it has no intention of offering them elsewhere in the U.S., the company’s PR staff packed a bunch in their suitcases so New Yorkers could gawk at them during the city’s auto show week. Looking somewhat like a motorized Little Tikes Coz圜oupe, the Twizy is 14.1 inches stubbier and 16.8 inches narrower than a Smart Fortwo. Yet another strangely endearing French design from Nissan’s corporate partner, the Twizy has been on sale in Europe since 2011 as a quad/microcar/neighborhood electric vehicle. The New Mobility Concept is a rebadged Renault Twizy (we’ll call it Twizy from here on out). “It’s a lot smarter than the f**king Smart car,” exclaimed one cyclist, peering down into the tiny bubble cabin. For instance, when I whipped Nissan’s New Mobility Concept around Manhattan, cyclists and cab drivers and otherwise dumbfounded citizens fell in love with all 92 inches of it. When they see something they like (or don’t), you’ll know about it. But New Yorkers are neither cold nor indifferent. New York is the greatest city in the world, so New Yorkers should be excused for any superiority they feel over those who live outside the five boroughs. Anyone accusing New Yorkers of being cold, indifferent, and self-important is only correct about the last part.
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