Opera Week
Started off the week Tuesday going to a Ptolemy dinner party hosted by the fabulous Johnny Kolb who greated everyone wearing a top hat and a cane. (or maybe that was the devil at faust). Fixed some of the best lamb chops I’ve encountered. Tender almost filet like, with a very light lamb flavor that complimented but did not overwhelm the senses. Accompanying were a lovely Portobello mushroom sautee reduced with wine as well as straight corn on the cob. Later for dessert a exemplary potatoe gratin was served. I found Johnny’s omitting the béchamel to be enlightened.
Went to a Bravo Memphis event at the Orpheum that featured a reception with some awfully good food and a dress rehearsal of Faust. I thought the portrayal of the Devil as a dapper pimp dressed black man showed poor cultural relations in a city like Memphis. I was also thinking my OFB would have made a much more imposing devil being taller and craftyish.
That night also featured working the door at ground zero at the on location Memphis international film festival afterparty. The film festival will be going on at Ridgeway 4 for the weekend for those still interested. Arriving ontime I found that non of the festival organizers were there. So I ordered a hamburger that was quite solid. The service everyone agreed was complacent and everything took awhile and one woman stormed out and was briefly about to castigate me for the poor service before realizing that working the door didn’t equate to working for the establishment.
Went to a Bravo Memphis event at the Orpheum that featured a reception with some awfully good food and a dress rehearsal of Faust. I thought the portrayal of the Devil as a dapper pimp dressed black man showed poor cultural relations in a city like Memphis. I was also thinking my OFB would have made a much more imposing devil being taller and craftyish.
That night also featured working the door at ground zero at the on location Memphis international film festival afterparty. The film festival will be going on at Ridgeway 4 for the weekend for those still interested. Arriving ontime I found that non of the festival organizers were there. So I ordered a hamburger that was quite solid. The service everyone agreed was complacent and everything took awhile and one woman stormed out and was briefly about to castigate me for the poor service before realizing that working the door didn’t equate to working for the establishment.
Also going on that night were 2 mpact events I missed (curiously the only night with mpact stuff that week) and an exhibition at the brook.
Tried mosa again for lunch it’s a good place with generous portions especially the chicken on the chicken katsu salad.
Tried the gyro place café med. The original gyro was quite full of meat and good. The steaming of the pita created an okay tasting but quite durable shell. To be completely first rate they really would’ve had to have grilled the pita bread.