About Time: Fashion and Duration, the Met’s black and white costume exhibit, ended early February. I was lucky enough to see it before that.  (Scroll down to see one costume!) After the exhibit, where folks were socially distanced, we walked over to Lexington Avenue to have brunch at a small Columbian restaurant.

Sadly, they were out of their spicy fig margie that we each wanted to sample. Instead, we each ordered the jalapeño pineapple one ($12) with orange liquor, jalapeño and pineapple juice. One requested no peppers, one regular and one double the jalapeños (that’s spicy-lovin’ me).

Wanting to sample their arepa ($9.75), a corn pancake that’s eaten in Colombia, we shared their cheese-filled white corn patty served with guacamole and pico de gallo. It’s almost a meal in itself.

Since it was brunch time, one friend ordered the Huevos Dulce Vida ($14.50), a layered piled high egg dish with toasted slices of multi-grain bread, ricotta cheese and avocado topped with sunny-side-up eggs, hollandaise sauce and chopped bacon. Two of us sampled their blackened cod tacos ($17.50 for three) topped with guacamole, pickled onions and jalapeño peppers sprinkled with queso fresco and chopped cilantro with a side of grilled pineapple jalapeño salsa.

Worth the stop.


Dulce Vida Cafe
Upper East Side
1219 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10028