I love to travel. It used to be that domestic travel disappointed after all my years of travel in the Far East, South America, Europe all over the world. With the film business, I found myself falling in love with Ameircan travel again.
So this week..
Last weekend my family and I were in NYC with my family and our good friends, the Berglunds to see my nephew in the Big East Tournament. Go Nova. Highlights aside from family. Watching basketball at MSG and hanging with the Nova players after. Daniel Ocehfu, Ryan Arcidiacono,Darrell Reynolds, Phil Booth, Jalin Brunson to name a few. And their families. Staying at the Mark Hotel where the service is the perfect combination of perfectly elegant and casual interaction. I love it there! Dinner at Vandal on the Bowery. It’s like dining in a Keith Herring painting.
Then to Dallas. Dinner at a staple for us: Nick and Sam’s grill in University Park, then a new fave, True Foods. Trendy, non-native waiters who all seem so friendly and far you they must be from Minnesota.
LA….I can’t resist meeting my friend Amy for a shared pastrami sandwich and a bottle of Amapola Creek at Greenblatt’s Deli after a producers session for me and a tough day at the office for her.
Miami! Haven’t been in years. Like…since long before it was cool. Stayed at Eden Roc. Staff and food at Nobu there is the best I’ve ever had. Sunset drinks and snacks at Juvia. Awesome view. Ended at Versace’s former home to have dinner at Gianni’s. I was never a fan of so much gold until….I saw what he did with the place. Okay, maybe I felt the same about all the gold at Versailles as well. But Gianna, he was a real artist.
on plane back to NYC for NCAA. Go Henry Lowe and the Villanova men!
It sounds like you’ve been quite busy! I’ve always thought of University Park in Dallas as a tiny little slice of a section of Hollywood, albeit a very tiny one, with some of the fine dining there, and wish I could get back there often. Do you have a VERY favorite, or is Nick & Sam’s Grill the “go-to” spot there for you?