Speaking of so much fish, I like the taste of bouillabaisse (sp?)... but if there's a lot of shellfish still in the shell in it, it can be quite a chore to consume.
I never pass up a good gazpacho, and found myself in Columbus Circle the other day. There, the one-and-only food option is the famous Whole Foods in the basement of the Time Warner Center. Their gazpacho was marked "Grilled Gazpacho Soup" but I think they may have meant "Chilled" - I couldn't imagine what was grilled about it.
The best thing about the Time Warner building is leaving Whole Foods, which is not a knock on the gourmet megastore. The architect got exactly one thing right, which is a great sense of New York - as theatre when you come up the escalator out of the basement. You're staring at blue sky, and, little by little, New York buidlings (Central Park South, mostly, but also the Sherry Netherland) come in to view. That's a great experience, one that I'd recommend.
