Loved it!

Wednesday Mom and I took advantage of Restaurant Week at Butter. The space, converted from Belgo which closed years ago, is interesting but somewhat contrived. The trollop who showed us to our table was tackier than the wedding gift Liberace gave to Sigfried and Roy. However, the food was transcendant! I loved it! Mom loved it! The goat cheese tart started it off nicely, but the hanger steak with a cabrales sauce was unbelievable! The caramel chocolate mousse which finished off the meal was amazing! And all for $24.07! I love Restaurant Week!

Then, in the evening, we went to the movies.

Mom convinced the BF and me to go see The Devil Wears Prada, a movie was I expecting not to see until video/DVD or whatever. It's worth seeing for Meryl Streep alone.

Her execution of a heartless but brilliant and fabulous media queen has just the right amount of Cruella DeVille, Marie Antoinette, and Darth Vader. Stanley Tucci is fantastic, Emily Blunt is hilarious, Anne Hathaway does a fine job, but it's all about Meryl. The bohemian friends are ridiculous, happily they're barely in the movie. Unfortunately, that bland kid who plays the boyfriend with the bobble-head and bad hair is in the movie way too much. Ignore them. The movie is just fun, spectacular to watch, and has the morally uplifting ending required to warm your delicates. A very good show!

Leaving the theater, we were surprised and puzzled by a sequence of loud blasts. We soon realized, however, that there was a fireworks display going on in Battery Park City We walked over and saw them through to the end. They were really very well done and an excellent way to end the evening. Mom was especially happy since she'd missed seeing fireworks on the fourth and she felt like these were as good as any she'd seen. It was the perfect way to end the day.