Hi there,
Last night mi esposa y yo (my wife and I) went to the Gen Art Film Festival launch party in a tres chic, three-leveled designer shoe store in SoHo called Te Casan. As customary at Gen Art events, the vodka was
free, with an interesting, special-event, vodka-based martini containing herbal tea and some sort of juice also circulating. Not bad, although once the place was full, the line to the bar began to look more like a mosh pit than an appealing gateway to a free voddy. (Strangely enough -- or perhaps very cleverly -- attendees to the party could also try on and BUY shoes while getting drunk on free alcohol and socializing late into the night.)The music was (as always) good, and the people were (as always) interesting to look at, but after looking at the lovely yet somewhat eccentric shoe offerings and the lovely and somewhat eccentric people, there was little left to do but turn our attention to the latter part of the evening - dinner and cocktails.
On our way to dinner we stopped by Thom bar (above Kittichai) @ 60 Thompson. The martinis here are good - you should go with the passion fruit cachaca martini, or the martini with mango and rum (my favourites). From here we moved onto Woo Lae Oak, a Haute cuisine Korean Restaurant on Mercer Street in SoHo. A little bit different from the usual Korea Town f
are (which I love), the food here has a more refined and well-prepared air - and you'd expect it to have at these prices. We loved the food here. Awesome to cook fresh seafood at your table (we had scallop BBQ) combined with the aromatic, delicate flavours of the chef-prepared Korean dishes. The chef-prepared dishes included a short rib steak, a marinated Black Cod with daikon, and crab meat rolled in a spinach crepe - all extremely delicious. If you throw a bottle of delightfully floral sake in the mix, you've got yourself a ring-side seat at a beautiful evening out. We were seated in front of a wall full of celebrity chopsticks. The manager was all too happy to indulge the friendly couple at the end of the night with explanations as to whose chopsticks were who's on their wall of fame. Notable mentions were Jean Georges, Mike Meyers, Prodigy, Kate Hudson, Micheal J. Fox and many (small wall full of) more.
David
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