For all my New Yorkers- NY Food & Wine Specials

We all know that NYC is expensive. period. A street cart hotdog costs up to $4.50 (plus the $25 co-pay you will be paying when you are at the doctors with food poisoning the next day...).

Here's a little tip on how to do the NY food and wine scene on a budget: Tasting Table New York is a free daily email that delivers the best of food and drink culture in NY.... Tasting Table also has a wonderful email that they put out called Tasting Table NY Specials. It's a free weekly email that provides insider access to the city's best eating and drinking experiences, from dining deals and exclusive reservations to bargains at some favorite wine stores and cookshops.

One of the cool specials they are offering this week is a free wine tasting event at Pasanella and Son vintners, an awesome little wine shop at the Seaport. This shop is super fun, I was there in the Fall and I loved their selection! They have a fab selection of under $15 wines. And it's always fun to walk around at the seaport and visit the shops!

You can subscribe to Tasting Table NY Specials here http://tastingtable.com/lander/NYspecials

Take advantage of these specials on a date night or a night out with your best friends... and instead of seeing a Broadway show (SO expensive these days, right??) go to a museum. The MOMA & the American Museum of Natural History is only $12 for students, and $20 for adults... And a beautiful walk in Central Park is totally FREE!

A NYC night is totally doable and doesn't have to break the bank!

xo E

My first blog post! woohoo!

Ok, so I am totally new to this whole blogging thing. That being said, forgive me if it takes me a little while to get the hang of it.

The totally predictable, yet totally necessary, why I started my blog story:

So, a few days ago, I was showing my husband Matt the website of the Bed & Breakfast that we are staying at in a few weeks, and I was all but squealing with delight in the amazing price per night that I had just secured..when he said to me "You know, you should really write a blog about this or something". Me: "About what?" Him: "About how you are always planning something" Me (kinda defensive): "It's our anniversary & its suuuuch a good deal!" Him: "That's what I mean..you should write a blog about how you always find a good deal. And thats why we get to go away a lot".

Now, mind you...we do not think we go away a lot. Other people tell us we go away a lot...and upon thinking about it...mayyybe we go away a little more than the average couple. And mind you, we are not world travelers. We like to visit new places...though it doesn't matter to us that they are exotic, popular or tourist attractions necessarily.

So, after this brief, but life altering conversation (I am exaggerating..) with my wise Buddha like husband (exaggerating some more...), I decided to start this blog to write about our super fun, albeit frugal, life and some of the cool stuff we do. I'll review the places we go, the people we meet and the food we eat. I'll let ya know the websites I search (I do HOURS of research when planning most things), and the right people to talk to. We cut other corners to do the things we love (i.e. I cook dinner at home 6-7 nights a week), but life is about living...and most of all having fun...and I happen to think I am really good at both...

xo E