TV Dinners
I ate my Monday dinner at Perilla, the restaurant recently opened by Harold Dieterle, who won the first season of Bravo’s Top Chef. I had been looking forward to going to his restaurant ever since there was a rumor that he might be opening one, so this was a big night for me: straighten my hair and wear high heels all day long big, which means about as big as New Year’s. A huge television-minus-the-TV-set night altogether, I should say, because before dinner Steve and I went to a taping of The Late Show.First thing to note about Perilla is, save your porno store shopping for when you expect to dine there because about half of the businesses in the area are sex shops. Charming. Second thing to note is that Harold will likely not cook your food; he spent most of the time sitting at the bar, a convenient spot to later sneak out before the real dinner rush.
As for the food, the best part of the meal must have been the complementary amuse-bouche that we were served, and I know it was delicious because Steve, for whom seafood is a big no (unless he is kill-his-taste-buds drunk at a Japanese restaurant and I convince him that raw tuna tastes exactly like Chicken of the Sea), was pleased to gulp down his scallop. The rest of dinner was interesting, quite delicious, and bear in mind that if you order the wild boar dish, you are pretty much served the whole wild boar. For a real food review, read something like this, or find something more affirmative.
Halfway through dinner I tried pointing out to Steve that, while nobody has been counting, this might as well count for a three year anniversary dinner; he laughed at me for all of a sudden attempting to be over-romantic (sappy?); I laughed at his table manners and we happily kept eating and drinking our wine.
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