September 14th, 2011
…you just never know!
“The day after tomorrow could be the best day ever.”
—Pete Wentz
” ’cause I really need somebody / tell me are you that somebody”
—Aaliyah, Are You That Somebody, from…fall ’98? (collecting all FALL songs, pieow)
…you just never know! This year has been full of surprises and RANDOMNESS, and yesterday was no exception. However, the surprises we’ve run into have generally NOT been good, whereas yesterday’s surprise was very good and very random! (NO this is not what you may think it is, it’s just something that happened at work.)
In the spirit of this randomness AND in the spirit of celebrating, we went out to beloved Al Vento after work to indeed CEL E BRATE. This is what was on: Four course $20 meal (= best deal ever, sorry but true). $10 half-carafe of Venice boxed wine. Tomato bread soup (zucchini bruschetta for Jeff) which was incredible, BEET salad (!!) w/ cherry balsamic (!!!) (caprese for Jeff), followed by sea bass ravioli w/ lemon-sage-butter + then gelato for us both (blackberry). Needless to say the food was spectacular.
However, even MORE spectacular was the service. I keep a solid eye out for good service and in fact they were impeccable all evening, from hostess to water-server to actual server to plate-person to CHEF or whatever Ricardo, who came out to bring us the first course (“If you need anything, please just ask for Ricardo.”) – seriously so cool. Good or bad the Recession seems to have sparked an increase in wonderful service, and I can appreciate that immensely.
Also spectacular: delightful company of my charming date.
Happy September!!