Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How not to be cheap

Do not pick the day of a 6-mile run as the one to try that Japanese restaurant in Tribeca you've been so curious about. Even if said restaurant is shockingly affordable by Japanese food and Tribeca standards. In fact, going near any meal that is not a huge plate of pasta prepared in one's own kitchen is, on such a day, a cheapness disaster.

However! $1 for two decent-sized pieces of vegetable tempura! (Of which I had... more than two.) A Cheapness Studies Guide to New York's Priciest Neighborhood may be coming soon.

2 comments:

Miss Self-Important said...

You run six miles in 30-degree weather? Is that safe?

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

It was over 40 degrees and sunny the day I did this - 40 seems to be the threshold. The run was slightly unsafe, but only because I couldn't figure out how to exit Riverside Park and ended up in what I think was a cars-only zone.