Restaurant week continues: La Fonda del Sol

Lunch during Restaurant Week is also a great deal, as you can get 3 courses for $25. You can also get away with not having reservations, which is what a friend and I did one day for lunch. La Fonda del Sol is a Spanish restaurant, serving tapas, but we came for the Restaurant Week menu. What I loved about this place though is the light. Located right outside of Grand Central Station, it had floor to ceiling windows that flooded the place with lots of light. Paired with bright decor of reds and yellows, the place just makes you feel so happy and light-hearted.

Calamari Salad

Scallop appetizer

We started off with two appetizers: a calamari salad with beans and arugula and then a scallop dish on top of cherry tomatoes. Both were outstanding and looked beautiful too.

Roasted chicken breast

Skirt Steak

Next course brought us a roasted chicken breast topped with olives and paired with a veggie medley. The chicken itself was a little dry, but the olives and vegetables were so good that it made you forget all about the dryness. Unfortunately, we weren’t so thrilled with the grilled skirt steak. The mango and peach party sitting on top were fine, but the meat was bland and dry.

Torta di Santiago

Buttermilk Panna Cotta

Dessert then comes around with a Torta de Santiago, which I think was a lemony almondy Spanish cake with fromage blanc ice cream. The star of the night, though, was the panna cotta. Buttermilk panna cotta with strawberries. Absolutely amazing. We scraped that plate clean.

La Fonda del So
Metlife Building
200 Park Ave
New York, NY 10166l

 

Kellari Taverna

Whew! The past 2 weeks have been crazy busy! I just moved back into my apartment at school, and classes have just started. Add on top of that loads of things to do for organizations and clubs and fellowships. I’ve literally not have much time to breathe at all. I’m so behind on these NYC posts. There are still several in the works, so forgive my inadequacy and slowness.

Restaurant Week is one of my favorite events ever, and I was lucky enough to be in town when New York’s Restaurant Week took place. The special prix-fixe menus were $25 for lunch and $35 for dinner, which is a pretty awesome deal! I went 3 times, which definitely added up, but I very much enjoyed the meals regardless.

Kellari Taverna is a Greek restaurant, with a beautiful interior. They were also very accommodating since we had a party of 8, and each of us drifted in at a different time.

Snacks from the bar

The bar had a bunch of free snacks: cheese and crackers and various cookies. While we were waiting for everyone to arrive, they served bread with hummus, olives, and radishes. The hummus was the best!

Bread and more

Cocktails

Some ordered cocktails. The lychee one was gorgeous, which is hard to tell from the picture. I forget what this red one was, but I remember trying it and really liking it.

Scallops

Here is a sampling of some of the dishes around the table. For the appetizers, the scallop dish was BEAUTIFUL! Look at that! It was hands down my favorite dish of the night. The scallop sat on top of a truffle risotto and slices of beets. Absolutely delicious.

Spanakopita

Others got the Spanakopita, stuffed with spinach, leeks, and feta. Not as pretty as the scallops, but tasty.

Seafood Yiouvetsi

Next enter the entrees. The seafood yiouvetsi had shrimps, clams, and mussels along with a mountain of pasta. The portion sizes were huge, and this is when I started regretting eating so much of the bread earlier because I was so stuffed at this point.

Moussaka

I tried some of the moussaka as well, and it was great. A casserole of lamb and yogurt in once again, huge portions.

Lavraki

Several people got the lavraki, which I learned is grilled bass. It came as a whole fish, as you can tell, with head and tail and everything.

Galaktoboureko

After loving every course so far, I was expecting dessert to be a home run too, but I didn’t like the galaktoboureko, which was a vanilla custard cake. I thought it would be more creamy, and the flavor didn’t sit well with me. The others got the a dark chocolate torte, paired with some gelato on the side. Those were much better than mine, so I just ended up eating other people’s dessert.

Sokolatina

But the winner of the night was…SCALLOPS AND TRUFFLE RISOTTO! I could’ve eaten a pot of that stuff.

Kellari Taverna
19 W 44th St
(between 5th Ave & Avenue Of The Americas)
New York, NY 10036