Old and new
We broke our routine last night and went to Sylvain’s instead of Meaux Bar, our favorite haunt, and somewhere into our meal we were sorry we did. Sylvain is a new restaurant on Chartres in the Quarter that has a good atmosphere for having a cocktail before seeing a play at La Petit, but other than the shaved brussel sprout salad last night, I found the food lacking and suddenly it was filled with obnoxious 30 something year olds who thought they were something because they were there. Yikes! Give me the local scene at Meaux Bar any day.
We had gone to see I love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change at La Petit which was put on by Jefferson Performing Arts – yikes again. We left before the second act. Why is it in a city that has such a plethora of rich live music performances that a dramatic performance is so hard to come by? Or rather, a good one?
After Sylvain’s we went to Meaux Bar for an after dinner cocktail and to confess our sin of going somewhere else. I learned that Meaux is a family name and not a riff on Ho-Mo, or Mo, for gay. What do I know? But it was so nice to be back in our haunt, amongst our peeps, having a delicious cocktail. On the way to the car, friends pulled up and wanted to have another cocktail with us so we headed down to Tonique, another yikes. Tonique was this sleepy, gorgeous French Quarter bar with a sullen bartender who was finally fired for running all the customers out, he told me once that my hair looked bad. But now unfortunately, all those 30 something year olds (and some 60 year old cruisers) have flocked to it and made it a Quarter Delachaise (it’s owned by the same people) – sadly. So we skipped that scene and went two doors down to the tranny bar where three young gorgeous boys got up and did a nice choreography of Michael Jackson’s Beat It.