This week I am in New York for the Web 2.0 Expo. I flew out on Saturday and stayed with Jess out in Hoboken. We had a packed weekend, but I didn’t get to see Jess last time I was here and I was happy to come out early and see friends before the conference started.
On Saturday evening Kathy and Stephanie came over and we had wine and cheese at Jess’s apartment. It was really delicious, but the most impressive part is that Jess has been taking pottery classes and MADE all of these serving dishes and bowls.
Hoboken, NJ
After a bit of wine and cheese we headed into the city to meet up with Jeanette for dinner at Ditch Plains. Jess had eaten a great dinner there recently so we all decided to try it. Walking to the restaurant was kind of bizarro because it’s located less than a half a block from the apartment where I lived for years. Everything mostly looked the same, except that this restaurant, I swear, used to be a shady trannie bar! Now it’s gorgeous inside. The menu is a bit strange. It seemed like one owner wanted to do comfort food (hotdogs, mac & cheese, sloppy joes) and one wanted to do seafood (4 kinds of mussels, seafood stew) so they just did both. Everything we had was very good.
Rachelle & Jeannette :: Ditch Plains, West Village, Manhattan
Jessica, Kathy, Stephanie :: Ditch Plains, West Village, Manhattan
Clockwise: Jessica, Stephanie, Rachelle, Kathy, Jeannette
On the way home I noticed this Path train ad above Kathy’s head. Who decided that night was the night to ditch grandma’s drug stash?
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November 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Jeannette & Jessica, West Village, Manhattan
On my last trip to New York we were told that the wait would be 20 minutes at Westville but we waited so much longer. So long that some of us went to Patisserie Claude and got pastries to eat while waiting in line. An then waited 20 more minutes. The line wasn’t moving at all so we just went around the corner and got diner food at Manatus.
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Last night our den mother, Frank, took us to Dublin 6 for drinks. We were teasing Jessie because he was leaving to go to some club and he said that no one under 25 is allowed inside. And then JZ, Alden and I went over to White Horse Tavern and this was the sign we saw. “Proper ID proving 25 years of age required for admission.” I was secretly hoping JZ would get carded, not because I didn’t want him to get in, but just to see how it would go down. He’s old enough to drink legally, but not old enough to go to White Horse Tavern.
We imagined that the policy was set so they don’t accidentally make a right turn and end up with a really young annoying crowd there, but at lunch today we were having a good discussion about the legality of it. Is it possible to say people under 25 can’t enter because they’re a private business? And then what if they said people of a certain race or religion couldn’t enter? Wouldn’t that be illegal? How is it different?
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