Yay for full-time employment!

I am well-fed and happy. This evening, cattitude and I had our belated celebration of my being given the full-time job, with benefits, at Triumph. (Yes, that was in March. First we got distracted and had a raise of his to celebrate, and then I got sick, and then it took a while to pull ourselves together.)

We went down to Le Jardin Bistro, which is very convenient to his office and to the IRT subway; this is the first time we've actually eaten in their garden (our two or three previous visits have been in cold weather, which is good for cassoulet and sitting indoors). It's a nice garden, with grape vines overhead. I had a fois gras terrine and then soft-shell crabs (both specials), after serious consideration of some other options. Cattitude had gazpacho and lamb steak (more specials). After bringing our starters, the waiter came back and presented me with a half glass of what he described as a "sweet wine" and as going with my appetizer. I had declined to order wine (I usually don't) but figured that if the chef was that sure that I should have white wine with this, I'd try it. It worked well enough that I decided to start adding bits of the (flat) parsley to my mouthfuls of pate and toast. Also a good idea. For dessert I had creme brulee (which stuck to my teeth) and Cattitude had sorbet (apricot, blood orange, and coconut). Apricot sorbet is pleasant, in a low-key way; blood orange is more intense.

After dinner, we walked half a block to Eileen's and bought a chocolate cheesecake, which I (and possibly Cattitude) will eat tomorrow, Friday, and/or Saturday. I found this bistro in the first place because it's half a block north of Eileen's, and thus between it and the Spring Street station on the 6 train (which gets me back to the office after lunch). I heard about Eileen's from a random stranger at lunch in Chinatown, in a restaurant that I originally found while wandering around at lunchtime when I was on jury duty. Serendipity indeed, and possibly another sign that New York is full of good places to eat.

This is part two of the celebration. Part 1 was at L'Atelier in Montreal, and was also an excuse for me to go to a nice restaurant I'd wanted to try since rysmiel and papersky first talked about it. Over that dinner, I mentioned to rysmiel that my boss had said, shortly after I'd been hired full-time, "Get your husband to take you out to dinner," and rysmiel said "And take your other sweeties out yourself." adrian_turtle, shall we find somewhere a bit festive?\

(While I didn't finish the wine, it was nice enough that I asked the waiter at the end of the meal what it was; he said "Alsatian" and left it at that, which is a reasonable answer since I'm not actually going to try going to a liquor store and getting a bottle.)

Yay for full-time employment!

I am well-fed and happy. This evening, cattitude and I had our belated celebration of my being given the full-time job, with benefits, at Triumph. (Yes, that was in March. First we got distracted and had a raise of his to celebrate, and then I got sick, and then it took a while to pull ourselves together.)

We went down to Le Jardin Bistro, which is very convenient to his office and to the IRT subway; this is the first time we've actually eaten in their garden (our two or three previous visits have been in cold weather, which is good for cassoulet and sitting indoors). It's a nice garden, with grape vines overhead. I had a fois gras terrine and then soft-shell crabs (both specials), after serious consideration of some other options. Cattitude had gazpacho and lamb steak (more specials). After bringing our starters, the waiter came back and presented me with a half glass of what he described as a "sweet wine" and as going with my appetizer. I had declined to order wine (I usually don't) but figured that if the chef was that sure that I should have white wine with this, I'd try it. It worked well enough that I decided to start adding bits of the (flat) parsley to my mouthfuls of pate and toast. Also a good idea. For dessert I had creme brulee (which stuck to my teeth) and Cattitude had sorbet (apricot, blood orange, and coconut). Apricot sorbet is pleasant, in a low-key way; blood orange is more intense.

After dinner, we walked half a block to Eileen's and bought a chocolate cheesecake, which I (and possibly Cattitude) will eat tomorrow, Friday, and/or Saturday. I found this bistro in the first place because it's half a block north of Eileen's, and thus between it and the Spring Street station on the 6 train (which gets me back to the office after lunch). I heard about Eileen's from a random stranger at lunch in Chinatown, in a restaurant that I originally found while wandering around at lunchtime when I was on jury duty. Serendipity indeed, and possibly another sign that New York is full of good places to eat.

This is part two of the celebration. Part 1 was at L'Atelier in Montreal, and was also an excuse for me to go to a nice restaurant I'd wanted to try since rysmiel and papersky first talked about it. Over that dinner, I mentioned to rysmiel that my boss had said, shortly after I'd been hired full-time, "Get your husband to take you out to dinner," and rysmiel said "And take your other sweeties out yourself." adrian_turtle, shall we find somewhere a bit festive?\

(While I didn't finish the wine, it was nice enough that I asked the waiter at the end of the meal what it was; he said "Alsatian" and left it at that, which is a reasonable answer since I'm not actually going to try going to a liquor store and getting a bottle.)