New York Meet...Blatham, Lola, Joe Nation...moi!

This is what the clock at the Waldorf looks like:

Remind me not to sit in the foreground of a photo with three of the smallest people in the world.

Everyone looks fabulous:)

Indeed.

Looking good, folks.

Going to give the name of that place on 2nd? Pretty please?

I've been into the Waldorf once. 1950. Egads. All I remember is not the Waldorf's interior, but going past a glittery jewelry store (those are emeralds, my mother told me) somewhere by the entrance.

Y'all look great, if not all up to snuff.

Bernie and I are traveling today. We or I will post when we get home

I owe Frank twenty bucks.
He came to have some pizza and a beer.
We (the rest of us, me especially) ended up ordering Fettuccini Alfredo AND wine AND my Manhattan(s) made with Maker's Mark.
AND three pizzas....
Yes...my scale was up this morning.

~gotta tell you....it makes my heart sing to know that J and B are together....the same as S and I are,,,,thousands of miles separate us, thousands of miles separate them....yet seeing them sit side by side ....you'd think they'd never let any distance be between them.

These long distance relationships are not easy.

Joe(love is so fricking tough)Nation

Oh, forgot..

http://www.ninos46.com/

I'd been there before,,,,,,there was a fire or something,,,they were closed for awhile. I used to get my hair cut down the street and then stop in for a drink.
Joe(real NEW YAWK)Nation

Thanks everyone for stopping by...and for your comments.

I wish all of you had been there.

Looking forward to more pictures from the others.

Nothing like an italian menu to get me all excited. That shrimp fettucine dish got to me.

A Maker's Mark manhattan, oh gawd.

Sounds great.nsorry people were sick.

No shrimp.
Bernie doesn't do seafood. He lives on a island on the Pacific Coast, but doesn't eat seafood.

Joe(wha?)Nation

Bernie? I get it. Not complete agreement, but get it.

In my case it doesn't matter, seafood is more than dead on arrival here. You can guess I miss it.

I lived in Eureka, home of good seafood a lot of the time, including the crab shack a C Street. I've my own yelling about tuna fishing and so on, but will pause because this is
not about that.

That dinner menu makes my mouth water. And, by NY standards, the prices aren't bad at all. Reasonable, in fact.

If it doesn't arrive on hoof or wing, it isn't legitimate. The slither creatures seem from another very disagreeable planet. I've had to leave restaurants where people are being served calimari. We'll get some pictures in here later if I can remember how to do that which isn't likely. If not, I'll just describe them. Whatever this bug is I've got, it's unpleasant. Very difficult to type when your keyboard is lathered with snot.

It is a nice place, and, given that it's on the Upper East Side in the Forties, very reasonable. You can't go to a white tablecloth restaurant and expect to have a meal and a couple of drinks for less than $40.00.

I'm going to Le Midi today for brunch (it's down on 13th Street near Union Square), if I can stop at two Bloody Marys, I should be okay with $30.00 including the tip.

BTW: the movie group I've been going out with uses an interesting method for dividing up a bill. Each person takes their total untaxed amount and multiples it by .27 , adds that amount to the untaxed amount to get their total share amount. (tax here is 8.875%). Makes it very easy, although it wouldn't have worked for the Meet-up group two nights ago. Who could tell how much pizza to charge yourself?

Joe(I had three bites of the pasta, okay, six...and most of the Prosciutto, ...)Nation

Take your time, brother, I figure I first got this bug in NOVEMBER, fought it odd through Thanksgiving (American) and then got it AGAIN about three weeks ago.
Still have a little frog in my throat.
You Canadians are odd. Shelley lives in Calgary, near the home of some of the finest beef anywhere,,,,,her favorite food?
Salmon.

Joe(I eat everything except for Jello)Nation

Now I am especially happy I did not ask if we could order the calamari...which probably were spectacular there. I did consider it!

Folks: Bernie also thinks anything green is unfit to eat!

But I love the guy...even if he had to be asked to remove his hat while we were in St. Patrick's Cathedral.