The Modern is a two Michelin-starred, contemporary American restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring three separate experiences.



I opted for: THE BAR ROOM - The lively Bar Room offers Chef Thomas Allan's vividly seasonal contemporary cooking à la carte, along with an award-winning wine program and carefully curated cocktails, beer, and spirits.



This space is dark, moody and feels very high-end. The benefit is that I could order a la carte, and sinfe I was dining solo, I didn't necessarily want an hours-long tasting menu experience.



I started with their most popular dish: tarte flambée. It is an Alsatian flat bread with smoky bacon, sweet soft onions, and tangy créme fraîche. It is really quite good - like a refined, light pizza with amped up flavors.



I also ordered the hand-cut mafaldine with shaved black truffle. Malfaldine is a ribbon-shaped noodle that is like a cross between lasagna and fettuccine. It was perfectly cooked to have just a tiny bit of toothiness.



Truffles are like hard underground mushrooms that have a deep umami flavor and are hard to find, so they can be costly. But that almost pungent flavor cuts through the creamy pasta flawlessly.



This was a wonderful meal in a really cool space. It felt like an experience from a movie.



Grade: A

"The story of the world’s most famous bakery begins in 1996 on a quaint, cobblestone corner in the West Village where Magnolia Bakery opened its doors for the first time. The sweet smell of cakes and cookies and pies and pudding tumbled out, wafting down the streets, beckoning all in.

Our red velvet cupcakes became iconic and people lined up around the block for our banana pudding. There was even talk of New York pretzel guys becoming cupcake guys. Magnolia Bakery was a destination for locals and tourists alike."



For more than 25 years, Magnolia Bakery has been making baked goods from scratch, in small batches, and using the finest ingredients. Their assortment includes cakes and cupcakes, the world-famous banana pudding, and a host of other classic baked goods, seasonal treats, and more.

I had to try the famous banana pudding, which was fantastic. It includes creamy vanilla pudding with vanilla wafers and fresh bananas. It's light sweet but so satisfyingly smooth. They have other flavors, like Red Velvet Banana Pudding and Chocolate Hazelnut Banana Pudding that I will have to try next time.



Grade: A

The Cheese Melt is a grilled cheese restaurant that focuses on elevated sandwiches in the Ohio Valley.



they went from mobile food truck to brick and mortar location now in Warwood. the interior is fairly basic, but I do enjoy their main logo that looks like the cheese is melting.

I ordered the Beale Street, which had gorgonzola, hot pepper cheese, kale, apples and bacon. I love the sweet and salty combo. My main suggestion would be to add a sauce of some sort because it ate a little dry.



Grade: B

Glade Creek Coffee Roasters is a small family-owned and operated coffee roasting business located in Southern West Virginia. They also own and operate White Oak Bee Company, which sells honeybee products.

They offer:

Coal Miner Blend (dark roast) - bold / nut & chocolate notes

Guatemalan (medium-dark) - apple / grape / brown sugar & chocolate notes

Ethiopian (medium-light) - sweet / fruity / blueberry notes

Appalachian Honey Bean (medium) - honey roasted / subtly sweet / chocolate notes

Brazil (medium) - Chocolate / brown sugar / granola

Decaf Mexico Veracruz MWP (medium) - Sweet, nougat, milk chocolate, well balanced

Columbia 12 oz

Costa Rica 12 oz

Hope Blend 12 oz

Oddball Coffee Roasters is a small-batch coffee roaster located in Morgantown, WV. Specializing in, well, odd flavors, reads their website.

Their beans come from Guatemala, Ethiopa, Tanzania and other blends. Have you tried this local roaster?