Not long ago, Our Illustrious Leader said that he would be in NYC this week and wants to meet for dinner. At Win A Dream Date With Vroom!, gregor42 offered to make arrangements, and did most of the groundwork, but has not been heard from for a bit and did not respond to /msgs from either me or vroom when he logged in today. But we need closure on this so I will try to finish off what he began.

Read on for the details.

WHO The last current list is at Re: Win A Dream Date With Vroom!. Add to that list one guest for me. If you are on that list I will /msg you to confirm. If you are not on that list and want to be, please say so.

WHAT and WHERE One place listed is closed. 2 are noted for good atmosphere and bad food. I am biased, I want good food. vroom tells me that he has had too much Asian food recently and wants a break. Plus I really do not like sushi. That kills the Japanese place. This leaves a positive request for pizza, and Lombardi's is the only pizza place suggested. Lombardi's might be logistically inconvenient. But I looked a little more closely at it and decided to stick with it. See below for more on that.

WHEN The only day that works for vroom is Thursday, Aug 16. So we will have it at 7:00 on Thursday, Aug 16. If you have to be slightly late, that is OK. (I may have to be slightly late.) But that is when it will be.

OK, so it looks like pizza at Lombardi's. It is a block from where the #6 stops so it shouldn't be hard to get to. It is at 32 Spring St. According to the Zagat Guide it costs $19 per person for a meal. (Their estimate is for a meal, drink, and tip.) The rating they give it is 25 for the food, 11 for the decor, and 15 for the service. Here is what those numbers mean:

  1. 0-9 Poor to fair.
  2. 10-15 Fair to good.
  3. 16-19 Good to very good.
  4. 20-25 Very good to excellent.
  5. 26-30 Extraordinary to perfection.
Extraordinary means exactly that. Fewer than 50 restaurants in NYC have a food rating in that range. In a city known for pizza, no place in Manhattan is ranked above Lombardi. It also has history. Opened in 1905, it is the first pizzeria (it serves nothing but pizza) in North America. The oven is illegally good for making pizza. And here is a review for those who need further convincing.

They say that they can handle a party of our size on a Thursday night, but they need about a day's warning. So barring serious objections, I move for Lombardi's at 7:00, this Thurs. And I suggest a ++ to aardvark for making the suggestion.

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