A twenty-something thirty-year-old Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at hawaiigurlinct@gmail.com.
March 3, 2010
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Sonja = Minibar Fail.
I never fail! Not at obtaining reservations to the most coveted restaurants around. Do I have an inside track to the restaurant business? Not at all. Instead, I have killer instincts at redialing or refreshing website pages. In case you couldn’t tell, this “never failing” thing has made me quite cocky over the years. But today I failed.
Every March / April I head down to DC for a weekend of sightseeing and indulgent eating and drinking in one of my favorite cities. So my plan for this year was set: the first weekend I’m free from work (the weekend of 4/3) we would head down and spend Saturday eating at Jose Andres’s six-seater Minibar. A perfect weekend getaway after 3 months of hard work.
So exactly 1 month in advance at 9:45 AM (even though Reservations didn’t open until 10 AM) I started calling. For 45 minutes I called. Outside. In Connecticut. While it was snowing (though not sticking). With no jacket. Because Greenwich does not believe in having good cell phone reception (with any company). I was about to give up and decided that my call at 10:30 would be my last when lo and behold I didn’t get a busy signal. I got through. And found out that there were (at least) 12 lucky souls ahead of me (there are 2 seatings). So I put my name on the waiting list - but pretty much will not be holding my breath that I will get a call back.
I will be trying again until I succeed!
*Photo courtesy of the Minibar website
