They always say, “you never forget your wedding day”…
… but in my experience, it’s really more like a whole wedding weekend, filled with memories of all the wonderful meals we shared with loved ones. Because nothing makes me happier than knowing my friends and family are happy — and well fed.
Our first stop after city hall was to head directly to Jing Fong for dim sum (my favorite kind of brunch), followed later by a banquet with family and friends at Taiwanese Gourmet in Elmhurst, where we celebrated two of our friends’ birthdays. We made sure we had all our favorites, like their pitch-perfect crispy pork chop and blood sausage, to ginger scallion lobster and fiery fly’s head, and we surprised our friends with the yellow cake with dark chocolate frosting from Bar Bête (which required some assembly on our part, but was well worth the effort).
The next day, we had dinner at Semma with our immediate families, and it was just so sweet to be able to share a meal there, especially with my mom, whom they took such special care of. And lastly, there was the party we threw over at Ammazzacaffè. All together, we grazed from a massive antipasti spread, filled up on sunchoke salad and pasta, had a slice or two of kaya toast cake from Four Corners Co., and sipped on martinis and Manhattans on a stormy Sunday.
— Deanna Ting, New York & Philadelphia Editor, Resy Editorial
Dining and Cooking