Best of 2009

Here is a compilation of our mutual favorites from 2009:

Favorite Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurants

(1) Soy and Sake
(2) S'Nice
(3) Foodswings
(4) Peacefood Cafe
(5) Bliss
(6) Sacred Chow
(7) Tiengarden
(8) B&H Vegetarian Restaurant
(9) Uptown Juice Bar
(10) Strictly Roots

Willy-B Thai restaurants that will be missed - Planet Thailand and Noodle Studio (RIP)

Best Concerts

(1) Alexi Murdoch at the Bowery
(2) Marc Cohn at City Winery

Best Novels

(1) Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
(2) Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
(3) The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
(4) The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
(5) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
(6) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(7) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Travels

(1) Barcelona and San Feliu, Spain
(2) Montreal, Canada
(3) Ithaca, New York

Movies

(1) Slumdog Millionaire
(2) Avatar
(3) Off and Running (Tribeca Film Festival)

Our Favorite Movie Rentals

(1) Reprise
(2) Man on Wire
(3) Lust, Caution
(4) After the Wedding
(5) I've Loved You So Long
(6) The Tunnel
(7) The Wrestler
(8) Boy A
(9) In the Heat of the Night
(10) Revolutionary Road
(11) Alive
(12) Fire
(13) To Live
(14) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
(15) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

Sharon's Favorite Rentals

(1) The Wackness
(2) Rachel Getting Married
(3) Away We Go
(4) Annie Hall
(5) Synecdoche, New York

Best Documentary - The Cove

Best View of NYC - Brooklyn Bridge on the way to Di Fara Pizzeria