Let's just stick with the theme of seizing the day for a few more minutes.Check out this picture!
It's the real deal...Martha and I in the kitchen at Perilla in the West Village with Harold Dieterle, the winner of Top Chef Season One. It was taken last night, June 12. How cool is that???
The back story: Martha (who lives in the D.C. area) is putting on the Consumer Electronics Show all week at the World Financial Center downtown. On a whim, she called me Thursday and asked if I wanted to meet her in the city for dinner.
I hemmed and hawed. I was feeling too busy and didn't want to mentally rearrange my day, but she was persistent.
By 6 p.m. I was on the Number 2 train, headed downtown.
Martha and I met at the Wintergarden Atrium. It didn't take but a second to get Martha to agree to go to Perilla...so we headed back to the subway.
We didn't have a reservation, but being a party of two, we figured we would take a chance. Sure enough, we walked in and were promptly seated.
Dinner was fabulous! We tried a little of everything: Shaved artichoke and fava bean salad, risotto with artichoke confit, sauteed trigger fish, and fiddlehead and sheep's milk ricotta ravioli. Y U M M Y! Everything was amazing.
Our excellent waiter, Hunter, offered to show us the kitchen and introduce us to chef Harold. Awesome. We were both amazed at how tiny the kitchen was. Just proof that great things come in small packages. Speaking of, I expected Harold to be taller. Granted, I'm wearing heels in the picture...but, not what I expected.
Here's another picture with our awesome waiter,
Hunter from San Diego:
I thanked Martha PROFUSELY for pushing me to make the trip into the city. I gave up my "structured" day and decided to go with the flow ... seize the day ... and we had an AMAZING evening.
Now go do something spontaneous today!
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