Our New York week ended with a big group brunch at Zoe, a longstanding SoHo restaurant. It's a prettily designed place, fairly traditional American food, with a special emphasis on brunch. Pomme and Stoli were already in town and staying at the Hudson, and Catherine, Saba and Laura came to hand us over to Mom and Dad over a big communal brunch. We then waddled to our car and drove to Connecticut.