We were less enamored with the overdressed and very small house salad, the eggplant caponata and the baccala with olives and peppers.
Salads were notably hearty, like frisée mined with lardons and topped with a poached egg, or a somewhat overdressed Caesar with the added fillip of a "toad in the hole," an egg yolk fitted into the scooped-out center of a brioche square covered with melted cheese.
The place was Britain not America, and the setting was politics not show business, but the center-stage figure was the same -- a roguish schemer alternating overdressed charm with naked greed and ending up the victim of his own hilariously misguided cunning.
They shared their scene with my older, uncool, overdressed self in my quest for something memorable.
Inside, a predominantly male crowd of starry-eyed, overdressed expats mixed with seasoned do-gooders whose conversations carried over from their office cubicles.
In it, the glacial blond Anja Rubik portrays an indolent, overdressed Park Avenue princess with a gilded apartment, a couture wardrobe, two towhead children and a collection of heavy rocks.
A big crowd dotted with the dressed-up and the overdressed sat back and sang along inside their heads with old favorites.
In a week in which Hollywood skipped from party to party, there were eight million stories in the overdressed city, eight million people with an agenda to their merriment.
It's absolute nonsense, with each new world more fantastically overdressed than the last, and dialogue that would make George Lucas cringe.
For years it was surprising how indifferent its cars could be: the last generation of its Q45 flagship, with fey styling and forgettable personality, or the I35, an overdressed Nissan Maxima sent in to spar with all-stars like the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4.
