at the sign of The Pink Pig

New York Odds And Ends: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  October 13, 2008]

Not much to report from the old memoirs this week.  One of those periods where I kept my feet on the ground (or at least on the floor, thirty or so flights up) for a brief period between trips.

Allegretti Might Yet Save Us: Part I

[Pigging by Wilfrid: October 6, 2008]

Can anyone still believe in a Manhattan restaurant which has tables with tablecloths, takes reservations, has no "dining counter" and offers a menu divided between appetizers, entrées and desserts?

Where the appeal doesn't lie in a funky location somewhere south of East Broadway or in an online reservation system - but in the food and wine?

Haunch Of Venison: Art Not Meat

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid:  October 6, 2008]

Off to the Haunch of Venison, which sounds like an old tavern, but is actually a swish and airy art gallery newly opened in a Sixth Avenue office building.  I need hardly say that Abstract Expressionism is its opening theme.

Back To Seattle: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  October 6, 2008]

I had to turn around and head out west again on business - another very brief trip.  But first.