One New Thing: Eating at Covo

Today I was home at lunch time, so we decided to eat out somewhere new in the neighborhood. We walked down to Covo. Everybody raves about Covo, so it was exciting to finally get to see what this place is about. To get there, you have to go down a huge set of stone steps leading from Riverside Park, and it's there at the bottom--under the highway, in this cute loft-type building. It was a pretty day, so we ate outside! All of the other patrons seemed to be businessmen in suits, and they all sat inside, so we had the whole patio to ourselves.

We split Bruschetta for our appetizer. I thought it was OK--a piece of toast with chopped tomatoes on top--nothing amazing. For my entree I tried black linguine with crab and spicy tomato sauce. It was REALLY good, except for there were pieces of crab shell floating around. A lot of them! For the love of god, Covo cooks, why would you fail to pick out the shell when you are cooking? Nevertheless, I ate everything on my plate. I would go back, but I would not get anything with crab in it. I did enjoy sitting outside and sort of feeling "away" from it all. Sitting outside a restaurant on Broadway, with cars honking and garbage trucks stopping a couple feet away from you just doesn't seem as relaxing.


-Kristin

For my entree I ordered the Tagliatelli Alla Normal, which translates to noodles with tomato sauce and eggplant. I have to give props to Covo since this wasn't the worst food I have ever tasted. However, I think I could have done just as good at home. But at home I would have had to do the cooking and the dishes and the grumble, grumble, grumbling so it was much nicer to have it out on the sidewalk (or patio as Kristin says) of Covo.  What gave the meal that extra special something was the Pepsi I ordered. As I haven't been drinking soda lately it was a quite a treat. I don't know if it was more sad for Covo or for me that the soda was the highlight of my meal.

-Megan Leigh