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devil_cub52, Ed, Matt, and I all met for dinner at Rub, a southern BBQ place in Manhattan on 23rd St. Unbeknownst to us, Nick & Ed love the food there as much as Matt and I do! The only problem there is the acoustics. We were in the far back of the restaurant and I had thought it would work out just fine; however, we ended up yelling - literally YELLING - at each other for conversation. We were exhausted by the time we finished dinner. We were also astounded how much quieter it was ON THE STREET than in the restaurant.
We all had some form of roasted meat after the Fritos pie and fried green tomatoes (some of the best we've had ever!). Matt & I also got the St. Louis BBQ ribs - delish!! There was no room for dessert and we were really ready to get out of the deafening reverberating cacophony. So we left there in search of a bar for after-dinner drinks and ended up at Boxers, a new bar on 20th between 5th and 6th Avenues (so new, it's not on Google Maps yet!). Had a great time, lots of good conversation, and big hugs.
After taking the obligatory LJ photos, Nick and Ed took off to go see the new Freddie movie. We'll see them again, though, on Tuesday, whendurabear comes to NYC and we all meet up again for dinner with perkbear - hopefully at Tony's Di Napoli again!
(Boy, I got a big German head... physically and otherwise!)
Funny enough, later on in the evening, Matt and I met a Fred and an Alfred at Ty's!! For some reason, too, we kept running into southerners, and specifically guys from NC. Our waiter at Rub was from Greensboro, Fred at Ty's was from Raleigh, we met another guy from Raleigh named Tim, and a couple of people we met had either lived in or moved to NYC from Tennessee. An odd contingent of NC and southern-related folks yesterday for sure. Even one of the guys we met was from Alexandria, LA, and is moving to Dallas in the next couple of weeks!
This is Bo, y'all. Ain't he cute? And he's as sweet as pie!
These are new southern friends (Jimmy in the blue, Tim in the pink linen, Bo and his friend, Izzy(?), and Abry (moving to Dallas soon)), and Matthew with David Rodriguez.
Cops on horseback keeping the peace. There was a major bomb scare at Times Square and apparently no trains were running through midtown (weren't sure about the tunnels). At that point, we just stayed in the bar, ordered more drinks, hugged everyone around us, and said, "Yeah... we'll wait this one out. Cheers!"
devil_cub52, Ed, Matt, and I all met for dinner at Rub, a southern BBQ place in Manhattan on 23rd St. Unbeknownst to us, Nick & Ed love the food there as much as Matt and I do! The only problem there is the acoustics. We were in the far back of the restaurant and I had thought it would work out just fine; however, we ended up yelling - literally YELLING - at each other for conversation. We were exhausted by the time we finished dinner. We were also astounded how much quieter it was ON THE STREET than in the restaurant.We all had some form of roasted meat after the Fritos pie and fried green tomatoes (some of the best we've had ever!). Matt & I also got the St. Louis BBQ ribs - delish!! There was no room for dessert and we were really ready to get out of the deafening reverberating cacophony. So we left there in search of a bar for after-dinner drinks and ended up at Boxers, a new bar on 20th between 5th and 6th Avenues (so new, it's not on Google Maps yet!). Had a great time, lots of good conversation, and big hugs.
After taking the obligatory LJ photos, Nick and Ed took off to go see the new Freddie movie. We'll see them again, though, on Tuesday, when
durabear comes to NYC and we all meet up again for dinner with perkbear - hopefully at Tony's Di Napoli again! (Boy, I got a big German head... physically and otherwise!)
Funny enough, later on in the evening, Matt and I met a Fred and an Alfred at Ty's!! For some reason, too, we kept running into southerners, and specifically guys from NC. Our waiter at Rub was from Greensboro, Fred at Ty's was from Raleigh, we met another guy from Raleigh named Tim, and a couple of people we met had either lived in or moved to NYC from Tennessee. An odd contingent of NC and southern-related folks yesterday for sure. Even one of the guys we met was from Alexandria, LA, and is moving to Dallas in the next couple of weeks!
These are new southern friends (Jimmy in the blue, Tim in the pink linen, Bo and his friend, Izzy(?), and Abry (moving to Dallas soon)), and Matthew with David Rodriguez.
Cops on horseback keeping the peace. There was a major bomb scare at Times Square and apparently no trains were running through midtown (weren't sure about the tunnels). At that point, we just stayed in the bar, ordered more drinks, hugged everyone around us, and said, "Yeah... we'll wait this one out. Cheers!"
