I can enjoy a nice glass of wine at a restaurant (Oak Cliff was "dry" until recently) along with a farm-to-table gourmet meal.
The Farmhouse's rustic barn-style design pays homage to one of the worlds oldest and most beloved indigenous architectural styles while delivering comfort, warmth & utility, and I'd be lying to you if I didn't admit to being completely seduced by the best of creature comforts and the wholesomely delicious farm-to-table gourmet food.
The fat, bulbous-headed creatures drift surreally down a long banquet table, bringing gourmet platters for the hungry siblings, aided by a fish-headed butler.
Dinner is where the dressing up, chandeliers, starched table cloths and gourmet Scottish food come in.
But the show is really aimed at the growing number of his peers, at Yale and at colleges and universities around the country, who would rather gather around a table for a gourmet meal than find themselves at another kegger.
His first restaurant in Connecticut, the Gourmet Table in Darien, has since closed, but the Watch Factory, his second, has been thriving for more than 15 years, and with good reason.
The Double Pepperoni Pizza should prove popular with the whole table, topped mozzarella, gourmet pepperoni, spicy Italian salami and Parmigiano-Reggiano. Specialty pizzas range from $9.50 to $14 and personal pizzas start at $7, with toppings costing extra.
We catch, too, a moment of anger and fear when we reach the unfortunate Ortolan Bunting who "favours" (and flavours) gourmet tables, and has been hunted to near-extinction.
"In one year, five different citizens' groups had to hire private lawyers just to get their issues heard by city government," he said, sitting at a sidewalk table at the Hoboken Gourmet Company on Washington Street.
Every month the top sales team gets treated to a dinner where they sit at a long table and eat a gourmet meal served on fine china.
In a preview of the May extravaganza, LGBTQ people of all ages and their friends sat at tables for a delicious gourmet meal and got to know one another inter-generationally in ways that are rare in today's busy age-obsessed culture.
