My brother Andrew and his wife Jess arrived late last night from Wyoming to visit me for the weekend. For breakfast, we headed to Clinton St. Baking Company for stacks of pancakes. Whether they are the best in Manhattan is open for debate but the warm maple butter served on the side was welcome. Andrew had the wild Maine blueberry variety and I opted for the banana-walnut. We conducted a lot of browsing and shopping in SoHo and thereabouts, and checked out the Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. I enjoyed the unexpected video clips looped on giant screens, representing the best of non-static Dalí: the unfinished Disney cartoon, Destino (completed and released posthumously in 2003), the dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Spellbound and, with director Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou. For dinner, we dined expensively at Craft.
Clinton St. Baking Company
- 4 Clinton Street (between East Houston and Stanton)
- (646) 602-6263
- Meal 42 of 52: pancakes ($12) and a side of grilled chorizo ($4).