Still comfy and cozy in the East Village today :). I can’t even imagine trying to sit at work today after this past weekend. Also, blogging from the boyfriend’s PowerBook all weekend has only solidified my strong desire for a MAC. Time to start saving. Ok let’s see. Well sadly Team Patron Patrol did not win the beer pong tournament, but we played decently. The first game I was on fire and hit every single cup securing us the win. After that I cooled off just a tad, but luckily my partner remembered how to hit cups and we won a few more games.

Our custom banner made by Budweiser

Team Patron Patrol
The bpt started at 5 pm and went until 9:30, and for $25 it was an open bar for that entire time (well all the Bud Light you could drink anyway). Needless to say everyone was a little intoxicated by the end. I have a vague recollection of stuffing a cheeseburger and fries in my face in between games at one point. Hey, it was dinner time, and once you see one person with food it’s impossible to not order your own. I think the bf and I lasted until 11 before calling it a night and heading home.
Yesterday was a pretty lazy day, although I did find an awesome natural foods grocery store around the corner that I plan to visit before heading home later today. Since we were impatient and opened our presents on Friday, mine and Alex’s v-day didn’t really start until we headed out for drinks and dinner. We went to a bar called Drop Off Service, which apparently used to be a laundromat. It was very nice, had an awesome beer selection, and comfy couches to lounge on.

After our drinks, we headed over to Barbone for dinner. You have the option of doing a 5-course tasting, and since there were so many things both of us wanted to try we decided to do that. First things first though, we started off with a bottle of red wine.
It was pretty good, the bf said it tasted a little carbonated to him. We drank the whole bottle, so we obviously liked it just fine. The free glasses we were given at the end of the dinner were much better (and probably much more money). For our appetizer we ordered the Buffalo milk mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and gremolata.
It was delicious. I ate my entire tomato, and most of my mozzarella, but gave Alex the last little bit. We were able to make two choices from the primi section of the menu, and went with Duck Ravioli red wine and balsamic glaze, and Black pepper pappardelle braised short rib ragu. I never had duck before, so I was a little nervous but willing to be adventurous.
They were very good, I was pleasantly surprised. The sauce was a little too bitter for my liking, so I ate about one and a half of the ravioli and handed the rest over to Alex. I think his favorite part was eating everything that I didn’t finish.
This was my favorite course! I ate every single bite. After our two primi courses, it was on to the secondi. It was a toss up between the semi-boneless cornish hen with roasted potatoes or the prime flat iron steak with broccoli rabe fingerling potatoes and salsa verde. We decided on the steak, and I was very happy with it.
I ate one of the pieces of steak, my potato, and some of the broccoli, and then handed my plate over to an anticipating bf. Then it was time for dessert. Normally I’m not a big dessert eater, but it came with the tasting so why not.
Our two desserts. One was a pecan cheesecake, and I cannot remember what the other one was. It was sort of like cheesecake, a little more gelatin like and cold. Both were fantastic and we cleaned the plates.

It was the most delicious dinner I’ve had in a very long time. I can’t wait to go back and try some of the other things on the menu. Best Valentine’s Day dinner that I could have asked for.
As I was standing outside taking this picture, a guy and his girlfriend walked by and I thought I heard him say something about my legs, but they kept walking. Being the dummy that I am, I only brought black stockings to wear with my brown shoes so instead of looking mismatched I went barelegged. Then I looked down the street, and the guy was standing there with his pants around his ankles yelling “oh my god, this is what your life is like right now!” Haha, apparently he was shocked at the fact I was walking around in NYC like that in February. It was so funny, both the bf and I laughed very hard. Hey a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Ok, the bf just finished up some work he had to do this morning so now we’re off to lunch and playing in the city on our day off!
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