Last night Elissa invited me to go to a press dinner with her at a new gourmet pizza spot on Allen. Of course I said yes as I rarely pass up free food. We were seated with 2 other very nice freeloaders from Time Out NY and Nation's Restaurant News. The meal started out nicely enough with some red wine and antipasto. We sat and chatted for a long while wondering when the rest of the meal was going to arrive. At this point our attention was called to the kitchen and the owner gave us a little explanation of his vision for the restaurant and went over some items on the menu. It was interesting enough but what followed was far beyond anything I ever needed to know about pizza. Basically, we witnessed a 30 minute presentation on how to knead dough to perfection, preserve air bubbles, and not burn the bottom of the pizza. I honestly felt like I was on a field trip in elementary school. Finally they stopped torturing everyone and let us eat. The pizza was OK but it was not revolutionary like they were trying to make it seem. They kept saying "We make pizza the exact opposite of the way most NYC pizza is made". Why would someone brag about that? I was almost tempted to run out to Rosario's in the middle of the demonstration. Anyway, let's just say I most likely won't be going back there and am considering becoming a vegetarian again due to some interesting dinner conversations. Thanks Elissa!
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Booooo, we want celebrity gossip.
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I need to add that I couldn't finish my hot dogs at Crif Dog last night due to them playing Natural Born Killers on both tvs at high volume. MMMMM blood, guts and hot dogs. even my tator tots were inedible after that.
I'm going back to LA in less than a month for some pre-oscar events - I will definitely have some juicy gossip then! Hmmm, in the meantime I heard that Jodi Sweetin from Full House is addicted to heroine.
nevermind it's meth - wouldn't want to start a nasty rumor.
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