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At Coney Island. Beautiful day, right next to the CycloneTo play video messages sent to email, QuickTime® 6.5 or higher is required. Visit www.apple.com/quicktime/download to download the free player or upgrade your existing QuickTime® Player. Note: During the download
I turned 31 this past week. An un-unique age, but I had a great 3 days of events to celebrate. I had drinks with some Stern friends at Ace Bar. The theme was a Skee Ball tournament, however very little skee ball was played. The night turned into more of a reunion of Stern friends and everyone wanted to talk and see how summer internships were turning out. After all the hype and pressure and urgency during the school year, everyone is curious about how its turned out for people. Did you make the right choice? Would you work there full-time? Do you think you will get an offer? About 90% of people are happy and 10% are miserable. I think those are great odds.
On Friday, I went to dinner with Chaela at Tao in East Midtown. I had never eaten there, and it was delicious. We had some lobster dumplings, and shared some sushi. It was very fresh sushi that I highly recommend.
On Saturday, I had a great dinner with 10 friends at Freemans. I had already prearranged an eclectic menu and had been looking forward to ravaging it. And it was fantastic! Wild boar terrine, fennel watermelon salad, trout with sage and thyme, rum braised ribs, sweet corn, heirloom tomatoes with basil, bananas foster. I highly recommend this restaurant. If you want to have a bigger party (6 or more) you should try and reserve the Wine Room in the back. It is a private room that is surrounded in wine. It's cozy but still part of the restaurant. Also, my friends who attending were from all different times in my life -- high school, college, business school -- so it was very special to put them in a room together. Not surprisingly, they got along famously.
Our night ended at Motor City, a dive-ish bar in the Lower East Side. Nothing so special about it except the drinks aren't over priced.
Great birthday weekend. It's good to be 31. Like I said on my 30th birthday...my twenties were great and my thirties can only be better.
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