I went to brunch at Ovelia in Astoria with my sister and cousins when they visited. Ovelia is one of my favorite Greek restaurants in New York. I love their modern take on traditional Greek foods! And it’s got a great funky vibe going on with the decor.
Sunday I went to one of my favorite places for brunch: Supper. With exposed brick, stained-glass windows, and an eclectic mix of chandeliers, the East Village establishment fits in with the view of downtown Manhattan I had in the ‘90s—cozy and sort of bohemian. I almost exclusively have Eggs Florentine for Sunday brunch but when I go to Supper I get Molly’s French Toast. It comes with strawberry butter and freshly cut strawberries, bananas, blueberries, and raspberries. It’s hard to say whether I love raspberries or Hollandaise sauce more….
After brunch we walked over to Chelsea Piers, which I’d never actually been to before. There’s a trail outside where you can walk along the harbor. The salty smell of the river reminded me of my childhood. There’s a ship near there that was converted to a bar called The Frying Pan. I’d first heard about it a few years ago when I was covering Slideluck Potshow, which was having its after-party there, for Resource Magazine, but I hadn’t actually gone because a woman journalist going to the pier at midnight seemed like a good way to inspire a Law & Order episode. Now that I actually went to visit it—in the daytime—it was so cool! They had an actual train car onboard the boat—it was the turducken of transportation!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
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