Thursday - Dinner with the Realtor

This was worth a separate entry.

When we arrived in Brooklyn our realtor (Evan) was in Mexico on a bachelor party trip. He left us in the hands of an associate (Kate), who and I am being very charitable here, was fairly indifferent to our plight. I was going to mention this lack of interest to Evan but I forgot about it over the next few days.

Anyway Evan finally came round to see us on Wednesday, he was apparently stuck in Cancun because of the snow. He was interested in our plight as opposed to being involved (cf the chicken is interested in breakfast, the pig is involved). Anyway he invited us out to dinner the next night at Peter Luger's (this steakhouse is a New York institution) so we accepted gladly and looked forward to it, even though Evan can be a little hard work at times. It was set up for 6:45 and he would pick us up at 6:30.

So the next evening arrived and at 6:45 we were wondering where he was. The phone rang at 6:50 and Evan and his girl friend were outside. We went down to meet him and he said we have reservations at Lugers and at a Brazilian restaurant, called Riodizio, in Tribeca. Amazingly we had been there quite recently with my sister and her family. So it was off to Peter Lugers we went.

We got into his car and were introduced to his girlfriend, Kate (see first paragraph). I was extremely grateful that heated words had not been spoken to or about her. When she met me she said something like "oh hi, the last time we met you were a little tense". I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and smiled demurely and moved on with the evening.

Anyway, the evening was a very pleasant one and once Evan relaxed he was very good company and Kate could not have been nicer. So the menu was fairly selective - we shared a shrimp, tomato and bacon salad to start, then had a lamb chop appetizer and dived right into the steak, all the while being plied with ample red wine (even Peg had 2 glasses).

Desert was Pecan pie and a chocolate sundae which was shared. With coffee all round. I guess the final tally was about $600 for the 4 of us.

It was a good steak - but was it a truly great one befitting a New York Institution? I think not, but that could have just been me.