Scores of elderly Russian immigrants played bingo under the chandeliers of a former funeral parlor in Brooklyn on a recent Monday, with a free dinner and door-to-door transportation from anywhere in the city.
To judge from her demeanor -- and her outfit -- during an interview over dinner next door to the Goodman Theater here, where "Bounce" is having its premiere production through Aug. 10, there's not a lot of narcissism there.
That evening my husband and I had dinner next door at Rosalie's Cucina, the locally popular Italian spot, where I had the chicken with artichokes and perused the names of the patrons who have signed the walls over the years.
As the dog runs into the kitchen for dinner, the door will open.
A small group of attendees are also planning to get dinner afterwards next door at HopCat (435 Nicollet Mall).
Dinner is next door at Samarkand, an Afghan restaurant packed with bright young things, that serves a biryani to die for.Alas, our revelries are brought to an abrupt halt.
Mrs. Remeis, 45, is a co-author, along with Alex Davis and Diana Ellis, of "Dinner at Your Door" (Gibbs Smith, 2008), which provides co-op-friendly recipes and practical guidelines for starting and maintaining a co-op.
During dinner, the access door in the table top is removed, and a tray connected to the inside of the dishwasher is raised until it is flush with the table surface.
Also in the room were two hunter-green couches, a hearth with a fire, a glass table laid for dinner, an oaken door that opened onto a study, and three tall windows.
Flowers at her door, dinner together in a nice place — these things show that you care.
