Shoulder Season - Home Edition

Touristing in Times Square.

The holiday season tourists have left; we get the city back to ourselves. And that means Winter Restaurant Week(s) and Broadway Week(s)! We have a great low season here in New York City - prix fixe menus and 2-for-1 theater tickets! Why let the tourists have all the fun? Much better when the out-of-towners aren't clogging the sidewalks and we residents can take advantage of the NYC Tourism deals for ourselves - book new-to-us restaurant reservations close to the office for a super early pre-theater dinner, then walk briskly (no tourist pace here) to the Will Call window at the venue, arriving just in time for the start of the show.

Our picks: Glass House Tavern for dinner - very tasty, lovely ambience. Truthfully, service could have been a bit faster, but they did manage to get us out and on the way for the curtain, as promised. We rather suspected that they took care of the senior citizens first, and figured we could hustle and make it.

Onion soup with cheese crouton.

Quinoa spinach salad.

Salmon with roast corn and cous cous risotto, citrus, chiles, blood orange vinaigrette.

Lamb shank with white bean-Merguez sausage cassoulet, horseradish gremolata, rosemary jus.

Apple cinnamon bread pudding with 
cinnamon gelato, caramel and vanilla sauce.

Cappuccino panna cotta with candied hazelnuts and espresso glaze.

Our show selection was "& Juliet" - SO MUCH FUN!! We were pretty much the target demographic - late '90s pop female power anthems and boy band music. If I could have danced in the aisles and sung out loud without disturbing the people around me, I would have.

It really WAS the most fun we've had on Broadway!

Dining out and sharing musicals for our local shoulder season was the high point of the day - a nice off day from the physical therapy for my frozen left shoulder (having migrated from the right, which was afflicted pre-COVID), the other experience that has made for a less fun shoulder season these past couple of months. Statistically, a decent number of the other folks in the target audience of "& Juliet" are sharing that latter type of shoulder season with me as well - perimenopause and genetic predispositions stink.

Ah well. I suppose there has to be some tradeoff between reaching the measure of economic stability that allows for fully enjoying Restaurant/Broadway Weeks, on the one hand, and the season of physical ailment-free youth, on the other.