Picking the Brains of My Friends
Oct. 1st, 2007 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteSo it seems that, whatever else one can say about my job, my boss is actually quite a nice guy. I already knew this, but it's occasionally pleasant to have tangible proof of this.
You see, I was holding down the fort by myself for the past two weeks while he was out of the country. And apparently he's very happy with how smoothly things ran while he was gone, and his gratitude has taken the form of a not-insignificant bonus that I have been told is to be spent on a Very Nice Dinner for my hubby and me.
There's just a wee problem, though. We're not so much fancy restaurant people, mostly due to not generally being able to afford dinner at a fancy restaurant. Our average date-night restaurant is more along the lines of The Cheesecake Factory, with occasional forays up as classy as Legal Seafood.
So, I'm asking y'all - if money were no object (within reason - on the one hand, we don't drink alcohol, so that brings down the overall price of dinner quite a bit; on the other hand, it's not quite enough of a bonus that we can travel out of the area for a meal), where would you go for dinner?
Heck, even if you're not local, where would you suggest? Someday I might be in your area and looking for a way to burn cash, and it'd be nice to have a list of fancy expensive restaurants in random areas of the world....
You see, I was holding down the fort by myself for the past two weeks while he was out of the country. And apparently he's very happy with how smoothly things ran while he was gone, and his gratitude has taken the form of a not-insignificant bonus that I have been told is to be spent on a Very Nice Dinner for my hubby and me.
There's just a wee problem, though. We're not so much fancy restaurant people, mostly due to not generally being able to afford dinner at a fancy restaurant. Our average date-night restaurant is more along the lines of The Cheesecake Factory, with occasional forays up as classy as Legal Seafood.
So, I'm asking y'all - if money were no object (within reason - on the one hand, we don't drink alcohol, so that brings down the overall price of dinner quite a bit; on the other hand, it's not quite enough of a bonus that we can travel out of the area for a meal), where would you go for dinner?
Heck, even if you're not local, where would you suggest? Someday I might be in your area and looking for a way to burn cash, and it'd be nice to have a list of fancy expensive restaurants in random areas of the world....
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Date: 2007-10-02 03:59 am (UTC)Esca -- magnificent Italian restaurant focusing on seafood. The chef is a fisherman himself, so he treats his fish lightly but magnificently (never lots of breading or sauces). And the pasta is the best I've ever had in my life (the place is co-owned by Mario Batali, so the pasta is up to his level).
Rosa Mexicano -- the best margaritas -- pomegranate -- in the world. Plus the best guacamole, and authentic Mexican food that's probably like nothing you've ever eaten before.
Union Square Cafe -- I've only eaten here once (the other two are longtime favorites and money sinks, at various times), but I *still* salivate thinking about the food. The best salmon I've ever had, and their wine list is the best I've ever chosen from.
Tabla -- Indian fusion restaurant, f-ing incredible. I've only eaten at the Bread Bar downstairs (less fancy food), but I wish I could conveniently eat there more often. It turned me (a decades-long hater of cilantro, thinking it tastes like soap) into a fan of cilantro -- because they know what to do with it! Not everything has cilantro, though, if you're not a fan. And the drinks ... ah, the drinks....