Marumi and Milk and Cookies

Tonight I went with a friend to check out Marumi, a Japanese restaurant in the West Village. If you look at the window in the first picture, you will notice an "A" prominently displayed in the window. This is the city's new system for grading restaurants based on the health department inspection. A is good, B is less good and C is not all that good. So blog followers, do not be concerned about me, in this case the raw fish was in trustworthy hands. Having a little room leftover after a dinner of sushi and sukiyaki (pictured below) we braved the bitter cold to walk over to an establishment called Milk and Cookies. I had very high hopes for this place, and their cookies looked promising, but left us a bit underwhelmed. They were a bit too crunchy for my taste and did not contain enough chocolate. The best of the bunch was the chocolate chip cookie, but I'm afraid to say that it alone would not merit a trip back to this establishment. With each underwhelming bakery I try in New York City, my desire to open up my own bakery someday grows just a little bit stronger...