As with most parts of our relationship, my husband and I ended up with a much better anniversary tradition than we would have if we planned it from the start. See, I unintentionally started this little game with our anniversary dinners when I started thinking about how we would celebrate our first one back in 2006.
That first year, Dan and I went to Hearth for the simple and selfish reason that I had never been and really wanted to sit in the pass. We had such a rocking time that for our second, we decided to keep the Marco Canora theme going and tried Insieme, which had opened a few months earlier. Terroir, Marco and Paul Grieco’s wine outpost in the East Village, seemed a bit too casual for the third anniversary dinner, so we ended up at Craft, Tom Colicchio’s flagship and the spot where Marco won his James Beard award. And where we completely overordered, but that’s another story.
So to keep the lineage going, what to do for the fourth anniversary? Craftsteak, Craftbar… reduced to dinner at ‘wichcraft? Or how about taking it all back to the beginning, to the granddaddy of New York greenmarket cuisine: Gramercy Tavern, where Tom made his name starting way back in 1994 and Marco got his original start.
The Tavern Room, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons user _rockinfree
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