Tonight. I decided after work to alas - walk around the west village again! In light of the beautiful weather of course. I started out on my main route to the village: over to spring, down all the way until I hit 6th, right on 6th then down bleeker all the way until I hit Bedford then swing it into the most quaint area I've ever witnessed in the city. Incredibly lovely I cannot describe. I set out tonight with the craving to find an outdoor tea cafe because I wanted to grab a hot cup of decaf tea (my throat is still a little scratchy from being sick last week), and just people watch in the all too perfect weather outside. My sandals stopped at a place called Soy on Greenwich and Jane. Great tea! Incredibly great! Since the credit card minimum was four dollars, I ended up getting two cups, one of a chocolate flavor tea, and the other a decaf Assaf (Assam? I think it's Assaf). I sat outside, letting them stew with their tops off to cool, and just took in the air around me. A perfect night. And then a good friend of mine rang while my tea was stewing.
I met the good friend of mine tonight at a place called Cafe Cluny - relation to the George, not entirely sure, but what caught me was the look walking by from the outside. I'd passed it several times before and wanted to sit down, but didn't have the excuse. The inside was lovely, service incredibly nice and welcoming, and overall a very happy night.
After a couple hours at Cafe Cluny, which ended by the way with a bill delicately paperclipped to a lovely postcard accompanied by the sweetest chunks of chocolate (such a fitting touch, they must have known I was coming?), I headed down to 15th and 8th, just off of the brink of the village to my friend's house. Why did we stop by? Oh, because he had lobsters waiting in the sink.
Excuse me, lobsters? Live lobsters?
Turns out, he just returned from a lovely Labor Day in the cape (he is darling lucky), and happened to run across a deal on fresh lobsters en route back to the city. So we headed back to his place, and while he looked up how to steam lobsters online (only 10 easy steps...), we caught up with each other and talked the night away.
On the way back home, I caught another friend of mine on the phone who is currently in LA working on a film. He just made an incredible breakthrough (alas! a famous face has taken an interest in his film), and was bursting through the earpiece. I could feel his excitement, from all the way on the opposite coast, on a different time.
And all began over search of tea. To try tomorrow? A place called Tea and Sympathy, right across the street from Soy. And after that? A smaller place down the corner called Grounded.
