Everything at Santina was delish as evident by my food baby the following morning. Seriously I got up...looked down...and thought...really? Did I really eat that much? Followed by a sigh and a thought....maybe I'll juice today? Followed by another thought...but silly, you have leftovers!

First things first...after walking circles  around Meatpacking in my stilettos (on cobblestone no less!) I was much relieved when I finally found the place and saw my friend Dan who I hadn't seen in 4 years sitting at the bar. He had a beard...he looked so grown and happy! Such an occasion deserved a celebratory drink, one served in a pineapple…as in a fake ceramic pineapple w/ a hole for your straw. It's one of their most popular cocktails, the Manganelli punch: tequila, banana, pineapple, and cinnamon… I don't like bananas but I sure liked everything I was sipping out of this pineapple. It tasted like vacation and immediately brought me back to my recent trip to Thailand. When the waiter tried to take it away I asked if I could keep it on the table because looking at it made me smile :)