# 8 – Olive Garden, St Peters (12/2/08ish)

# 9 – 33 Wine Bar, Lafayette Square (12/13/08ish)

I should really try harder to do these sooner, and then maybe I could keep the dates straight.

The OG is my old employer, back before I’d made the big move to the big city. Out visiting Mom, aka doing laundry fo’ free, and decided to stop by afterwards and see if anyone I knew still worked there. A few did, many did not. It was not as wistful a visit as I expected, but I guess I temporarily forgot it was the fucking Olive Garden.

33 Wine bar is always fantastic. Good wine, of course, but they have a fantastic beer selection. My sister texted me to join her and Bill, her husband, for a drink and I gave a very non-committal answer back, as I was feeling pretty non-committal at the time. But I showed up anyway and got to have a couple of IPAs with a kind of local culinary All-Star team. My sister and brother-in-law are very friendly with a lot of local chefs and other food professionals and thus were hanging with a couple of them that night. Here’s to a couple future drunken hang-outs with chefs, hopefully leading to future hook-ups when dining out.