Dinner and a Show

Last night my friend Barbara and I met for dinner before going to the Landmark to see The Wedding Singer. We met at Bacchus around 6:00 for a nice, leisurely dinner. I had a glass of red wine, she had white as we decided on dinner. We were the only people in there when we first got there, but the place was filled by the time we left. Barbara got the spaghetti with butter and parm ($8), and a side of spinach with garlic and almonds ($8). I got the pan seared salmon with leeks and artichokes ($16) and broccolini with garlic and parm ($8). Barbara loved her very plain pasta (good parmesan can make or break the dish). My salmon was perfectly cooked with a very nice sauce of the leeks and artichokes with cream. We shared the sides and they were the hits though - very garlicky and the yummy parmesan on the broccolini melted on it perfectly! The almonds added a great nutty flavor to the spinach that I am going to try and copy next time I make sauteed spinach. We shared dessert - creme brulee - which is always yummy. They had other options with homemade ice cream, like apple crisp, and a peanut butter pie. Overall it was a very cozy, nice, decently priced dinner.

Now the Wedding Singer on the other hand, was not so enjoyable. First of all, there were hardly any people there, the entire row in front of us was empty. They played 80's music before the show started - and I was taken back to my high school years.....Beat It, Material Girl, etc. The show started and the opening song was horrible, the sound was bad, and I just didn't like the music. The story line closely followed the movie, but the people in the play did not have the charm of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. I found myself nodding off in the middle of the first act. When intermission came, Barbara and I got up to see if it had started snowing yet, hoping for an excuse to leave, but no snow.....we looked at each other and said "let's go!) and snuck out the side door! As we crossed Main Street to the parking deck, we had a lot of company, one lady remarked - I think my high school put on better shows than that one! But at least we got a preview of where are seats are for Wicked - 6th row!! Yeah

Now we are snowed in - Bolognese for dinner.....yum!