Gallagher’s Steakhouse NYC located at 228 W & 52nd St is certainly in my opinion, in the top 3 restaurants I have ever had the pleasure to dine in. As you can see from the photo above it was a freezing cold night in the Big Apple & I really needed a good steak dinner.
A week ago I was in North East Brazil & the temerature was 38 degrees celsius. 🙂
This is what you see first
The aged beef at the entrance gives you an idea of what awaits you inside. 🙂
Interesting entrance
Immediately you know a memorable experience awaits.
Not too crowded
The TripAdvisor rating is #35 of 7,468 Restaurants in New York City
A jack Daniels before dinner perhaps?
Only if you insist. 🙂
A huge mural
I’m betting there are a lot of people you recognise here.
My Surf & Turf
Food does not get much better than this. 🙂
Gallagher’s Steakhouse NYC
For those who like their beef rare, this one could almost walk off the plate. 🙂
Fabulous seafood platter
As good as this looks you just have to order a steak at Gallagher’s. Perhaps it would be good to share it with a friend for an entre.
Gallaghers most distinctive features.
The flame above the logs pays tribute to our hickory coal grills—unique among all the restaurants in New York as the only way we cook our steak.
The logs echo the bold design of the restaurant’s chandeliers—dating back to 1940s. Crafted from hickory logs notched across each other and suspended from the ceiling, all fourteen chandeliers have been artfully restored and rehung in their original place of honor in the dining room.
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Tokyo London Lisbon Rio NYC, plus Florianopolis, Belnario Camboriu, and Curitiba. In 2007 my 2 month trip which turned out to be one of the two best around the world journeys I have ever done.
Anyone for coffee?
Food, food and more food, you gotta love Tokyo. It is certainly one of my favourite cities in the world. In fact I was here for the first time in April this year and loved it so much I’m back in December.
Joan and Bill from Wiltshire
In fact we were having dinner in Bath, I was travelling to Dorchester the next day with Bill to visit his brother Alan who was a guest of Her Majesty.
Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. It is famous for its picturesque appearance; the view looking down from the top of the street has been described as “one of the most romantic sights in England
December 2007 and the city is winding up for New Years Eve. After a couple of weeks I will go to Curitiba to meet my friend Craig aka Sudzy from Australia, then after visiting a few cities we will head back to Rio for Carnival
Sergio, do you think our ship will ever come in?
Beautiful Copacabana and the first of nine cruise ships arrive for NYE
Barra da Lagoa Beach has good waves, clear water and a tropical rain-forest, this makes Barra da Lagoa the kind of place you can easily loose track of time! Just sit back and watch the pretty girls at play.
A similar statue to Rio de Janeiro. Balneário Camboriú is famous for the cable car which (uniquely in the world) links the two beaches of Balneário Camboriú and Laranjeiras. The town is located 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the city of Itajaà and 80 km (50 mi) north of the state capital,Florianópolis, and has a population of 94,344 (2007 census office estimate), which swells to over one million in the summer.
Balneário Camboriú
Antonio cycled around the world for UNESCO in 1999, on his trip the both times he was robbed was in Australia while the Olympics were on in 2000. And people say Brazil is dangerous.
It’s Probably not hard to guess why this is my favourite photo, a rose between two thorns, I don’t think so. Paraty grew in the 18th century as a strategically important port for exporting the gold mined in Minas Gerais. When shipments in nearby Rio began to attract the attention and ambition of pirates and privateers from rival European powers, the Portuguese began using Paraty as their safe port for getting their gold to Lisbon.
To see more of this beautiful creature just follow THIS LINK.
Take me to your leader
Once a year, when the great Rio De Janeiro carnival takes place, the coastal town Paratywhich is located 250 km south west to Rio, holds a unique carnival. In Paraty’s Mud Carnival – (Portuguese: Bloco da lama) the costumes that its participants wear is black sticky mud which is smeared on their bodies. The carnival preserves the ancient local tradition when the Indians smeared their bodies with black mud for medical reasons, and held ritual ceremonies in order to bring cure to the ill. In contrary to Rio carnival where the participants wear marvelous colored costumes, in Paraty carnival the fiesta is based mostly on the simplicity of the junction between men and nature.
Back to Rio for Carnival
After a fascinating trip down south we head back to Rio for Carnival.
Ipanema Carnival street party was one of the best nights in my life with my friend Dave Wylie. There was a “bloco” going on in front of the restaurant. A “bloco” is a block party during carnival. There are hundreds of them just in Rio. They are organized by local Carnival groups and the best ones move up the food chain of blocks to become the big samba schools that put on the big Carnival parades each year that Rio is famous for. We had a window table at “Garota de Ipanema”with of course means “The Girl from Ipanema”, and this is the exact spot the song was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.
Here I am with my good friend Dave Wylie at our window table at Garota de Ipanema. All night the action was all around us as you can see from the photos. As I said earlier Ipanema Carnival it was one of the best and most memorable nights of my life. Another equally memorable night was 4 weeks earlier, New Years Eve on Copacabana, simply awesome.
This crazy guy was so funny, he was absolutely smashed and spoke to Dave Wylie who is fluent in Portuguese, he said “Voce sabe quem eu sou?” (do you know who I am?”) “Eu sou o deus de dor da cabesa”) (I am the God of Headaches”).
As I said before New York is my favourite city, I like to say to friends, if the cities of the world could be likened to a horse race, New York would win by 10 lengths over the next bunch of cities which would include Paris,London, Sydney,Bangkok,Tokyo, Rome, Budapest,Amsterdam, Rio De Janeiro & Cape Town, not necessarily in that order.
