[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: January 25, 2016]
Off to the Dahesh, that too easily overlooked museum, in its lovely bi-level space in midtown, to see European paintings celebrating the legacy of Homer--including David's dramatic "Andromache Mourns Hector"--as well as some Daumier lithographs.
The next day, to John Doyle's curious revival of Sweeney Todd, in which the performers--Michael Cerveris and Patti Lupone among them--carry musical instruments through the show. Not sure about it (it definitely didn't work with the same director's Company a few years later. I did eat out too.
Strange in a more familiar way, if that makes sense, was Zucco: Le French Diner, a miniscule eatery at the top of Orchard Street, run by Zucco himself--a mustachioed and relentlessly Francophone character who very sadly died in 2010. Against predictions and all odds, it survives today (as simply Le French Diner). The attraction ten years ago was food, ambience and service which really did seem directly transplanted from a back street of Paris. Tiny ballons for wine, classic bistro du coin dishes on the menu. We worked our way happily through:
Assiette de charcuterie
Soupe des moules
Petit salé aux lentilles
Les fromages
And there was a bottle of 2000 "Les Vaucrains" Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru, which I'm pretty sure we brought with us.
Next week: hmm, what a coincidence. A visit to Hearth.
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