She insisted that the dinner "was not a birthday party," but a dinner of schnitzel and cold asparagus for people prominent in business, culture, science and education, including Mr. Ackermann.
At La Vaca Atada, a small, cozy restaurant on the small main street with the big name of Avenida Libertador General San Martín, we enjoyed a truly excellent dinner of cold cuts, followed by locally caught trout with rosemary potatoes, accompanied by champagne and a hearty Malbec red wine, for less than $15 a head.
Mr. Van Rompuy called the short negotiating sessions to hammer out a new proposal before the leaders all sit down to the dinner of cold dishes.
Before heading off to a dinner of fried oysters washed down by cold beer, Mr. Dodd went back onto the Senate floor.
That evening, Elbaz and his boyfriend for the past sixteen years, Alex Koo, ate a dinner of crêpes and smoked salmon with cold vodka at a Russian restaurant called Caviar Kaspia.
That evening, Elbaz and his boyfriend for the past 16 years, Alex Koo, ate a dinner of crêpes and smoked salmon with cold vodka at a Russian restaurant called Caviar Kaspia.
After that, a dinner of pork, rice, vegetables, and some cold noodles laced with pork and a white sauce was served.
Before sitting down to a dinner of Bordeaux and poached cod — usually he catches the fish himself, but the weather was cold and he bought this on the dock an hour before — he spoke of his years on the sea.
3. Have a dinner of interesting people.
I'm pretty sure I went through this nagging melancholy the last time, too, but I'd forgotten; my memories of the last trip are mostly from late afternoons, when I was finishing a day's ride in exhausted glory, when the morning trepidation had been banished by hours of good, satisfying exercise and sightseeing and the anticipation of a good dinner, a cold beer and a rewarding rest.
