We're pathologically social. We're professional leisurists. We're burrito lovers, bar flies, art whores and music nerds. We dish the good dirt, and we'll risk a parking ticket for a cheap sample sale. Sometimes, we blog drunk.
Starstruck
Now, we shot a video with Bin 8945 for their 1st anniversary (coming soon...to my mortification). The space is fantastically-intimate, the food is phenomenal and owner/managing director David Haskell is a super-guy. Bin is also known as a chefs' hangout—but that seemed completely irrelevant to me. With my luck, who would I see?
Luckily, shooting the video quickly gave way to eating, drinking, and eventually lighting a stogie with David...inside the restaurant. (I know! Scandale!) I was working my way through the Cuban, when who should walk in but Daniel Boulud.
Daniel freaking-master-chef Boulud! Seriously folks, this is huge. I had never been starstruck until the moment I introduced myself, shook his well-seasoned (ha!) hands and took a photo of him and David. Plus, he's super-nice and super-normal.
The NYC-based chef was in town to shoot a TV special and he had come in with Grace's Neal Fraser after fliming at the Beverly Blvd restaurant. The kitchen had run out of food, so they grabbed a couple of bottles of red from Bin's phenomenal wine collection, headed out to the patio and hailed the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendor for some midnight sustenance. Top chefs love bacon dogs. Awesome.
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