2004
02.16

Never Again!!!

I am not ever going to order from Moolight Cafe again. First I order a $10 hamburger. It arrives cold
with none of the toppings that distinguish it from their cheapest burgers and almost an hour after it was ordered. I am told that a replacement would arrive with in 30 minutes. It is an hour and a half later and several promises of 30-45 minutes later it has not arrived. I have a session coming and they still claim that the replacement burger is on it’s way.

This is not the only order I have made from Moonlight Cafe that has gone arye. I have ordered their hummus before only to have it be rancid.

For a town that is supposed to have the best food and restruants I have had the worst dining experiences of my life here. To mention but a few…I have had to re-order the same sandwich 3 times in one evening because it was supposed to come with chicken on it and the cook must have been a vegitarian. This was a shame coming from a restruant that rarely ever does me wrong…Cafe Roma.

I went to Tujaque’s on Decatur in the Quarter. They charged us $75 per person with out drinks, and brought out dried over-boiled brisket, the noodles were obviously sitting on the stove for a long time and excessively swollen, and the crawfish was Chinese crawfish and had freezer burn.

And I don’t even know where to begin with O’Henry’s greasy dishes, and St. Charles Tavern.

I had a super terrible experience at a sushi bar in Pensacola. We went to Hot Rock Sushi and spent $80’s only to have the rice be blech! The rolls were coated in sauces that weren’t complimentary to the taste of the fish at all, and the rolls on the menu were hardly any identifiable type of sushi at all. It was a case of people trying too hard to show off with sauces rather than understanding that a lot of the beauty of sushi is the simplicity, fresh, clean taste and texture, much less the health.

I wasn’t impressed with Marisol’s durring the Food and Wine event one year, but it wasn’t repulsive. It was a special event sponsored by the Vineyards and wine distributors, yet the food came out in spoonful’s for each corse. Literally it was in a spoon, and that was all you got. How cheap can you be when we were paying about $125 per person!

I am forgetting so many restruants I have ordered from in the last 4 years that I have just refused to eat more than the first bite due to it’s putrid flavor, or poor quality. It’s a shame when you spend over $100 on dinner and wish that you had stuck to a 99 cent burger.

On the other hand, some of my best experiences in eating in town have been The Emeril’s restraunts, Uglich’s, Christian’s, Palace Cafe, Gallatoir’s, Reginelli’s, Angelli’s, and of course all the sushi bar’s that I can’t possibly live life with out.

All this just makes me long for tomorrow to hurry up so I can have dinner on the balcony of Palace Cafe on Canal Street, during the parade.

2004
02.16

Last night

Last night went really well at the show. Ricki Comeaux opened for us. She was really good, and I want to catch her playing at the Buddha belly.

One more show and Lil Beaux Peepshow goes on break for 2 weeks. And that show is my Birthday Bash. Amrita arrives Friday, and the Flying Cat Circus will be doing the show too.

I woke this morning and made it home from the XBF’s house. I climbed back in bed and waited for my session to confirm. The house was cold (I am easily cold) so I spent most of the day trying to find oppritunities to climb back between the covers.

I watched Lost in Translation last night. I kind of liked it. It was very much where two people realize that the least sexual relationship they are conducting is, in fact, the most close and romantic of all their relations. If it were set in America the Paparazzi would have exposed them for infidelity even though they never had sex together. They were both miserable in their marriages. I found myself thinking that 25 years talking to the same person everyday would suck! I am so not meant for marriage and cohabittation. I need my space. I am quite domineering when it comes to cohabittation, and I don’t want to have anyone in my life that much of the day. I cherish my solitude. I may be alone, but I’m not lonely.