On Thursday, Jason had no class because of the Jewish holiday so he took us to Eataly for lunch.  It’s a huge indoor market dedicated to Italian cuisine.  It’s divided into different “food groups” like pasta, fish, meat, cheese, veggies, bread, desserts, and cured meat.  It was like being in a candy store!!  Each area had a restaurant/eatery and we chose the pasta/pizza one and it was tasty!  Makes me wish we had one of these near our home.

I loved the display of handmade fresh pasta and of the pre-cut cheeses that were packaged like slices of cake.

After we did a little bit of shopping in SoHo, it was time for dinner at Ippudo.  It’s ranked as Jes’ #4 Ramen Place and it had a 2-hour wait.  Sheesh.  Jia met up with us and after putting our name down on the list, we walked over to a French bakery for a pre-dinner snack.  We finally got seated around 9 pm and enjoyed some tasty pork buns and then a big bowl of ramen.  The air conditioning vent above our table was leaking little drops of water so they comped us two desserts at the end of the meal.  Sweet!