Day One of the 5 - Day Tour of Eataly

Hi foodies! As you all may know today is the first day of the 5-day tour of Eataly on Foodie Finders NYC. Today I want to tell everyone about the overview of Eataly and what I think about it. I hope you find this useful.

 Day 1

So Eataly, in my opinion, was spectacular. It was like food heaven. First of all, if you are going to Eataly, it is a day trip. You could just run in, but if it is your first time you got to do a day trip because there is just so much to do. The have a market with the regular fruit but also have fruits that might never heard of. The market has so many other things but that is for Wednesday. Anyway the market (opened everyday 10am to 11pm) is a great place to shop for food with stuff imported from Italy and stuff locally found here in New York. Eataly's sweet shops, or as they say Eataly's Dolci, consist of a coffee bar called Caffe Lavazza, a pastry counter called Pasticceria (Pastry Chef - Luca Montersino), a chocolate counter called Venchi Cioccolato, and a gelato area called Gelateria. Venchi Cioccolato was amazing as well as the Gelateria. Other food that you could buy that is more on the savory side are the panini shop called Paninoteca, the rotisserie counter called Rotisseria, the bakery called Focaccia, and the pizza and pasta counter called La Pizza & Pasta To Go. The restaurants at Eataly are La Piazza, Il Pesce (fish), Le Verdure (vegetables), La Pizza & Pasta, and Manzo. Manzo is the only fine dining restaurant in Eataly and it is absolutely delicious. Also at Eataly is La Scuola which is a cooking school in Eataly run by Lidia Bastianich. I will go into more detail about La Scuola on Friday.
Anyway Eataly seams to be very environmentally friendly. The shopping carts are made of completely recycled plastic bottles. The basket is made of 25 plastic bottles and the cart itself is made out of 73 plastic bottles. The bathrooms are also very green because the toilets have two different flushers, one for solids and the other for liquids. I really like that Eataly is very environmentally friendly. It really shows the thought that went into the making of Eataly.

 So that wraps up the first day of the 5 - day tour of Eataly. I hope you guys check back for the next couple of days to learn all about Eataly. I loved it and can't wait to get back.

-Mike