You’re never going to guess where this mini ice cream is from. Actually, you will, since the name of the restaurant is in the title of this blog post. Opps. But it was at the Oak Room at the Plaza. The Plaza. They serve ice cream cones. Hilarious.
Okay, remember yesterday when I voiced the need for feeling like you’re being taken care of when you’re at a nice restaurant? Well if you’re not sure what this is like, go to the Oak Room. You feel like a million bucks. The place just looks like a million bucks. Actually more. But I don’t want to think about numbers.
The Oak Room is so nice I almost didn’t blog about it. I certainly didn’t take five million pictures like I do normally. There’s just too much class. And my cousin was embarrassed. Haha. There was a girl there wearing a suit that looked like it came from the closet of Hilary Clinton. And she was probably younger than sixteen. That’s just the Upper East Side, y’all!
Anyway, the Oak Room and Bar is somewhere worth going to. I had such a great time. Lobster and corn bisque and hanger steak. A million bucks. I’m just going to keep saying that.
The only thing I wasn’t too impressed with was the Oak Bar:
It’s chocolate-praline mousse and brown butter ice cream, but it sure didn’t taste like it. It tasted like a frickin Butterfinger. Yep. My cousin thought it was amazing. I had one bite. So that’s that.
Here’s a picture of my cousin telling me to “Stop it” with the pictures (seriously):
And those were the only pictures I took. Ha.
We walked down a hallway for a bit and saw this ginormous room with nobody in it:
Even in the basement, huge areas were blocked off. How much would I love to explore the Plaza? It has so much history! I just learned that it was originally opened as a bar for men only. Which means white men, at that. What an interesting world we live in.
And now here is my favorite part of the evening. So I had just enjoyed a fabulous meal and fabulous wine with my fabulous cousin. When we came out of the the restaurant, it was lightly snowing. When I came out of the subway stop near my apartment it was still lightly snowing. And gorgeous. So I had the hugest smile on my face because I just love everything and then I get up to my apartment entryway and what do I see? An action figure sitting on one of the posts, covered in snow:
Just like that. It was so great. In the morning, he was gone, but when I came back from work the next day, he was there again! I wonder where he is now.
What a quaint little ice cream cone! Is it vanilla?
I wouldn’t have liked the dessert either as I am not a fan of butterfinger candy bars…gimme a cheesecake with some strawberry puree though and I’ll lick the plate clean!
Oh I forgot to list the flavors! There was vanilla, maple and chesnut I believe. Or I am forgetting. Definitely vanilla and maple.
Also I think there was a cheesecake option!
Love that little ice cream cone! I would have named it “Ted”. I like Butterfingers but there ain’t no way I’m paying more than a dollar for one. Oh, and come visit Cincinnati and I’ll get you some Chickfila– there is REAL CUISINE FOR YOU!
I just left a sweet comment and it disappeared. Now I’m mad. But not at you. At the interwebs.
Haha, I just fixed it, sorry about that! And yes, more than a dollar for a Butterfinger is not happening here either! And I would looove to try some Chickfil-A :)
Also, good choice naming the ice cream cone Ted! Haha!
Mmmm…all I got out of this post once I read the comments was ‘chick-fil-a’
You should have told Steph to shut up and kept taking pictures WE like pictures.
Oh, and xoxo to the action figure.
Hi there…I couldn’t find a contact anywhere, so figured this would work also. I’m doing a piece on my blog about the Oak Room and I was curious if I could use your pic of the chocolate praline dessert? We had it on our visit and I failed to take a pic, can you believe it? Anyway, I’ll of course link to your blog with credit. Thank in advance!
Sure! Thanks for asking.