Three Things

Don't-overthink-it dinners, breakfast burritos, rituals as a mindset

Greetings friends! Since we last spoke, I’ve discovered my new favorite way to consume rhubarb: Infused in a cocktail with Dorothy Parker Gin, Cocchi Americano, Lillet, and coconut milk, and if you want to know exactly how to make it you’ll have to ask the geniuses at ABCv who served it to me on Friday night. I don’t think my enthusiasm for that restaurant — which pre-dates my 2018 vegetarian pivot — will ever wane, and I was not in the least bit surprised to see that it’s included once again in the New York Times’s 100 Best Restaurants in NYC. As always with these kinds of round-ups, it’s almost as much fun to read the reactions to the list — no Bar Bête? No Cosme? No Chinatown spot with the bad lighting but the world’s best peanut-sauce drenched hot-and-spicy wontons? — as it is to read the list itself. It made me realize yet again that a) every single New Yorker lives their own New York experience and b) I need to spend wayyyy more time exploring Queens. (I was, however, very pleas…