Okay, okay, so this time the whole night wasn't about eating and drinking! This time it was about the amazing Chaz Palminteri staring in the one-man Broadway show A Bronx Tale. The Long Center packed the house last night (9/3) with the opening night of this fantastic show. It was 90 minutes of non-stop Chaz...I mean he didn't even take a sip of water. He took us thru his adolescence, perched on the stoop of 187th and Belmont. We laughed, we laughed harder, we were so quiet you could you could hear a pin...we'll you get it...the audience was absoultely consumed by his performance. In a day an age where I feel standing Os are a little excessive yet sometimes tentative-last night when the curtain fell folks jumpped to their feet and rightly so.

After the show a few of us retreated to the Kodosky donor lounge and sipped wine and Bronx-tail themed "Palm"agranite martinis made with Pama Pamagranite liqueur... courtesy of Twin Liquors and shaken by Sterling Affairs! Then the true treat...Chaz himself came upstairs and met and greeted everyone. He was incredibly humble and kind. He spoke a few words to the crowd... sincerely expressing his appreciation for the Texas/Austin hospitality he was shown. It was his first trip here... but he'll be back! He even had the character Sunny giving the crowd the hook'em!

Incidentally, I heard him talking about eating at III Forks--he's a big fan! That's saying a lot from a guy who I'm sure has dined in some of New Yorks finest!