Last night, my buddy Verena and I went to Shake Shack. This afternoon, I went again.

Actually, we caught nothing (unless you count the same little smidge of clam that I reeled up over and over and over). The misery of defeat was, however, quickly mitigated by a trip to Gajyumaru for lunch.

My family and I have been frequenting Il Fornaio for years, mostly because it's an inexpensive gem of a hole-in-the-wall that's nothing like the overpriced tourist traps that make up the bulk of the restaurants on the Mulberry strip.

I've never eaten banh mi before. Shameful, I know. Happily, I corrected that little problem earlier this afternoon at Baoguette, a Vietnamese sandwich shop in Gramercy that Kendrick frequents for lunch.

Last night, I met reader Natasha for some heart-to-hearting and fantastic ramen at Menkui Tei.