Kate and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary in New York City on Friday. Originally we were going to spend a night in a New York City hotel and spend the two days exploring the city trying to hit museums and other artsy things. However, money and time allowances did not make staying over a logical plan.
While researching what we could do in the city Kate stumbled accross a tour of the Chelsea Market and Meat Packing District given by Foods of New York. She has always wanted to go to Chelsea Market since hearing about it on many Food Network shows and we both thought it sounded like a fun enough way to spend a few hours.
From the moment we arrived in Chelsea we had a good feeling. The area of the city seemed calm, slowed down and cleaner than most of the other touristy areas of Manhattan. We walked into the Chelsea Market and were immediately impressed by the decorations and design of the building.
We met up with our tour-guide and began the tour. I knew it was a food tasting tour but I was not expecting much out of the tour. I figured we might get like a small bite of this, a shot sized cup of that and told about products we should buy. I could not have been more wrong. The tour was amazing! Our guide was very informed about each and every one of the businesses in the market, about the market itself and the people and companies that made it possible. We were given large samples of food products including an entire bowl of fresh seafood, a smorgasbord from an Italian grocer.
I had my camera with me and tried to get a lot of photos throughout the market, however the indoor conditions mixed with every store having it’s own level of lighting and what not made it very hard. I never had time to adjust modes on the camera and or balance my white levels for the current rooms light. We went into the Manhattan Produce Exchange and I got some nifty pictures in macro mode of some produce.
We got to tour Morimoto Masaharu’s restaurant, Morimoto, which is connected directly to the Chelsea Market and we also got to visit Mario Batali’s restaurant Del Posto. I took pictures in Morimoto’s restauarant as I loved the decor and it allowed me to try different technques to try and get some cool pictures.
After the tour was over Kate and I wandered about on our own and found the Chelsea Apple Store (by found I mean it was right in front of us). I love Apple’s design aesthetic, especially their grand stair cases and I took a few snaps of that.
All of the photos can be viewed on our photo site. A direct link here.
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