new years eve.
I rang in the new year at the local, but the shenanigans started much earlier in the day. After a trip to a Chelsea optometrist to get a new pair of glasses, I decided to stop into Co. for some pizza; after all, I’d ended 2009 with a great meal at Motorino — why not continue the trend in 2010? One sausage, fennel, and mushroom pie and a glass of sparkling Gruner Veltliner later, I stuck around for a bit, to catch up on some reading. Two gentlemen sat down next to me at the bar, in a jovial and generous mood, buying another glass of Gruner for me while they scarfed down three pies between the two of them. “We needed a snack before our 8:30 reservations at Per Se!” they proclaimed. They were hilarious (and, apparently, serious about their Per Se reservations — goodness, some people know how to live). Then they proceeded to buy a round of the Gruner for the bar. It was a most perfect, if unexpected, way to end the year.
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