Wednesday, April 30, 2003

 
We just got back from the Bubble Lounge .

So, how was this Tuesday? Warm ... nice .. not as sunny as yesterday, but very pleasant temperatures, got a bit cloudy later in the day.

For dinner we went to one Sushi place we really like. Though it belongs to the chain of "East" sushi restaurants, this one is the best "Kaiten-Sushi" place in Manhattan for us. (there is one more, called "genki sushi" which is higher in price and lesser in quality!)
Well, this place is on 3rd Ave between 26th and 27th and it is a fun place and the sushi is very good, oh, for those who may not know, kaiten sushi means that you sit at a counter around a kitchen area, in which the sushi chefs do their thing .. and around goes a conveyor belt with portions of sushi on colorful plates ... so you can just watch what passes you and pick what you like .. the color of the plate indicates the price ... so at the end the waiter just takes the stack of empty plates and calculates your check ... yes, just try to drop some plates or smuggle them into someone elses stack ... i bet those waiters have seen it all ...

One really great specialty they have is white tuna, oh so yummy. We rarely find it somewhere else, and never in that great quality ... other things we had, ikura, unagi, uni, salmon, tuna tar tar .... getting hungry again just writing about it .... at the end we shared a "mini udon" ... broth with thick noodles .. very very tasty





We then took a cab to the beforementioned Bubble Lounge to meet with Berna, Chris and Ryan, and to listen to the Lascivious Biddies, a 4 girl band doing jazzy cabaret fun stuff. The lady frontlining the band is Lee Ann Westover, an old friend of mine, from the days when she had a country band named "Strange Cargo". Ryan actually introduced me and Chris at a very funny Biddies event back in 2001. We all were painted green for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.




Anyways, the Bubble Lounge was just as we left it (we had our wedding champagne there 10 months ago), only that now (as anywhere in Manhattan) smoking is forbidden by law in restaurants and bars ... But it was surely fun, Billy, the evening manager remembered us and so did some other wait staff, the music was nice, and on the table next to us we spotted Kathleen Turner. Ah well, that is New York ... we stayed until 11:20 and then took a cab home.



posted by Peter 1:58 PM