989 Dinner in Tivoli

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

There used to be a local Mensa special interest group (SIG) for pizza. Their goal was to rate pizza joints, and find the best. The group had a problem. It seemed like half the time they met at a place, it was closed - for a fire, renovations, it got sold, or just went out of business. Worse, every time they thought they'd found the best, it soon died.

The Pizza SIG was bad for business. It finally went out of business itself.

In the past few weeks there has been some interest in reviving it, but the woman who was going to do it suddenly emigrated to Israel.

She left the curse.

We all showed up at Luna 61 in Tivoli (for the ethnic dinner group, not the pizza SIG) last night, and it was closed. Suddenly. When Zig called yesterday afternoon to make the reservations, the man who answered the phone told him that they had decided, just Monday, to go to winter hours (weekends only, I guess). So we ended up at Santa Fe, across the street. Santa Fe, incidentally, used to close for the entire month of December. A lot of non-chain restaurants around here close or restrict their hours in the winter. Ya'd think this was a tourist area or something....

There were seven of us, including Roman and me. I dislike Mexican food (at least as interpreted in "fancy" northeastern restaurants), so I had a steak and salad.

I had a pretty good time. Flirting.

BTW - Luna 61 needs a proofreader for their website - someone who can spell. Apply within. On a weekend.