It was a busy weekend and it's not over yet. Last night, at Wolfgang Puck's California Cafe at the Irvine Spectrum, we had a waiter whose better calling was probably magician. I am not saying he made food disappear and reappear. I'm saying he had jet black hair and a slim moustache and grandiloquent way of speaking. He would present things with a flourish, rattle off today's specials with more enthusiasm than even Wolfgang Puck intended. The whole episode was just a bit too nauseating to endure at dinnertime. It could not have been more obvious that he was a struggling entertainer of some sort, relegated to waiting tables, because he was useless as a server. We gave him a $5 tip for a $70 meal. Maybe he could magically turn it into 15%.
And then the final testament to this man's ineptitude revealed itself this morning, when I opened up my leftovers and found that Magician had handed me Polen's Wolf-Fredo instead of my Grandma Puck's Linguine.
Matthieu and I went to the Hsi Lai Temple yesterday and then South Coast Plaza. Buddha would have wanted us to achieve nirvana at the mall. The wing right out of Nordstrom's first floor leads to Tiffany and Chanel. Matthieu said in his heavy Gallic accent, "OK, I guess this is meant to be some kind of fancy mall."
At Burberry I fell in love with a tres chic denim jacket. I was very close to buying it. Later, I felt I had missed out, and it didn't help when later Matthieu told me he had 3 Burberry jackets back in France. Everybody knows it's so easy to make me burn with envy. Matthieu's defense: "It was a gift. I tell you, my grandmother swears by Burberry! She is convinced it is quality."
Reyna had a great "Belvly Hills" barbecue on Saturday night. I met some Italians, but none of them were any too simpatico. I've started taking Pepcid AC to prevent getting red from drinking, but as a result I do not get drunk anymore. I don't know -- be happy and look like shit, or be bored and look the way you did when you left for the party? To me, there is no clear winner here.
Matthieu is leaving today and I'll miss him. He made me laugh a lot.
posted by Lucy Sloan @ 10:33 AM
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