Sunday, February 1, 2009

A Breakfast Indulgence

This morning I woke up and made myself fresh-squeezed orange juice with my breakfast. Fresh-squeezed orange juice is one of my favorite small indulgences. I became hooked on it during college where we had a juicer and pre-sliced oranges ready to make our own juice in the dining hall. It served as a major motivator to get out of bed early on days when I had late classes and ordinarily would have slept right through breakfast!

One of my favorite things about vacationing is that restaurants and room service usually always serve fresh-squeezed juice. Last weekend in New York City we started off our Sunday morning with room service of fresh juice, tea, and croissants. Then, after a morning of sightseeing we stopped at Cafe Lalo on the Upper West Side for a late brunch.


Excuse the photo, please! I am bundled up in a thousand layers as it was freezing!!

Cafe Lalo was featured in one of my all-time favorite movies, You've Got Mail. Meg Ryan's character arranges to meet her online mystery man (played by Tom Hanks) there for the first time. The cafe has a European aethestic with French posters on the walls and most importantly, good food! Their eggs are steamed with no butter or oil making them absolutely delicious and guilt-free! And of course, fresh-squeezed orange juice in an elegant stemmed glass!
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4 comments:

parkaveprincess said...

omg I recognized it right away! I was like... isn't that from You've Got Mail? haha. You're so lucky you got to go there!

The Pink Tutu said...

Sounds like a delicious place!

Snickerdoodle Champagne said...

Ahh, how I love fresh-squeezed orange juice! And that place looks just as darling as it did in the movie!

Piper Jacquelyn said...

Oh how pretty is that place? I remember it from the movie, very romantic. I've tried to make fresh squeezed orange juice but never had much patience & ended up with about 2 ounces worth, ha!