a sampler

It was the 2nd Annual Good Food Fest on Sunday, so Lauren, Matt and I gathered our tickets and our appetites and headed out to the Meatpacking District to have a sampler, one of the best formats of eating if you're not buffeting.


Some pate, chicken liver mousse from Great Performances.


Possibly our favorite thing was the pulled pork and mango tostada from Delicatessen.


Some compressed apple with pickled beets on top...swashbuckingly pickly, from Gramercy Tavern.


From City Grit...


...a grits and pimento cheese concoction of goodness.


And from the Guilty Goose, round toasts with prosciutto, tomato, egg and arugula. A nice breakfasty bite. To get more of.


Tomatoes, onions, zucchini and olive oil bruschette from Dell'anima.


Spongy bread from Le Pain Quotidien.


Succulent peekytoe crab raviolis from Perry Street. Nice and peeky.


Yes, it was pretty hot out in the sun, and yes, we were eating some hot soup in the sun. But it was ridiculously good: a mulligatawny soup that was intensely creamy and rich, from BLT Bar & Grill. I could eat this hot soup all day, until I can't.


This was a tiny bite from a much larger piece of soft and creamy and bechamelly mushroom lasagna from Zampa.


Um...back for more of that pork tostada.


But save room for dessert...from Marc Forgione.


One must always double-fist dessert. Here, a "banana cream pie" and rum-soaked apple torta.


And Lady Ashton's Chocolate Cake.


And for later dessert needs, a cannele from Las Delicias boutique gourmet bakery.