Novella and the social aspect of dinner

Tonight's dinner was at Novella Restaurant. It's on the corner of Grand Street and Mulberry, basically on the border of Little Italy and Chinatown.

The food was really amazing, and the service was really good, too. A lot of the restaurants have a person that stands at the door and shows people menus as they walk by--basically like a salesman on the street. Pretty funny...I would think that this means that the restaurant is really hungry for business (hehe...get it..."hungry" for business...jeez, sorry.)

So I was walking by and an older Italian guy handed me a menu which looked pretty good. I walked in and realized that this was a really nice restaurant. I had fettucini with saffron sauce and grilled chicken. The restaurant was a little pricier than I would've thought looking at it from the outside. The main meal was nearly twenty dollars. I'm scared to say how much the total came out to be.

The service was great. My server, Flamore, was constantly checking, as was the manager. I was eating by myself which, despite doing it for almost every dinner this week, was pretty boring.

I realized that dinner for me is far more for the social interaction than it is for nutrition.