May The Stars Light Your Way
Tonight was HAPPY MOUTH and it was Holly’s turn to select. Ted, Tracy, Angel, Dave, Robin, Ed, Holly, Jay, guests Rose & Keith, Ron, Wendy, and I met at The Golden Lamb (Ohio’s oldest inn, established in 1803) in Lebanon Ohio. A bunch of the…
Tonight, Wendy & I attended the beautiful reception of Erica & Neil, former students of mine who met in Pharmacy school, fell in love, and got married (in Yakima Washington, Erica’s hometown). They had a very nice reception at RECEPTIONS in Eastgate. We dined on…
This evening Wendy & I attended a special preview event at MESH RESTAURANT, the new project by local ‘Culinary Visionaries’ Paul & Pam Sturkey. The new space is located in a strip mall (!) in West Chester, just a few minutes from our house, and close to Jag’s Restaurant where we ate recently. We were invited this evening by M-Brett (the “M” is silent, and is not, in fact, part of his name — it’s a long-standing in-joke between Brett and me (he refers to me as “G-Drew”)), our friend from the Iron Horse Inn who is now a manager at MESH.
We arrived at the restaurant around 7:40 and were warmly greeted and given our evaluation forms (since it’s a preview, they’re gathering data). When we poked our heads into the bar, we found our friends Bruce, Trish, and Brian there sponging free food and drinks off Paul, another friend who is a bartender there.
After spending a moment or two at the bar, we were shown to our table. Our drinks arrived and we were taken on a tour of the large restaurant by M-Brett. The space, which is new construction, has a giant square bar featuring an enormous black wall that looks like a chalkboard to the left when you enter. Moving right, you enter the large open dining room and immediately see the 1500+ bottle glass-encased wine cellar. It’s stunning, and a focal point in the restaurant. In front of the wine cellar is a communal table. The concept behind this table is that guests without reservations can be seated immediately at this table along with other walk-in guests. Moving further away from the main entrance, there is a small private dining room on the right, several booths and tables (we sat at a table in this area) all leading back to two banquet rooms (labelled “Sweet” and “Savory“) that can be opened into one large room to accomodate big parties.
Tonight represents the last of several nights in a row that Wendy & I have had no plans. We spent the evening attempting to drive to Ethan Allan (we heard that they were having a giant sale and we’re looking for dining room chairs). We…
Another quiet evening at home. I could get used to this! Wendy got home and we did a bit of grocery shopping and got stuff for dinner — carrots for a carrot soup; a green salad, an avocado, and a couple apples for me, and…
Another quiet evening for me & Wendy tonight. In fact, we’re fairly quiet until Thursday, then the rest of our week and weekend is packed. So, we enjoyed staying home together. I ate a Yakisoba dinner that was very good!
After a day of scuba diving at Natural Springs Resort in New Paris, Ohio (about 60 minutes north-ish of us) with Ted, Greg, and Parnell, Wendy & I came home and washed our gear out in our basement’s dip tank and hung the gear to…