There are some cool finds along Main Street in Sarasota if you're looking for a bite to eat. Both of my visits to A Taste of Asia have not only provided me with excellent grub, but with entertaining conversation, bonding with strangers and great people watching opportunities.
Last night I found myself at a table there with the owner of a WalMart Buddha, a teacher, three mothers, a fisherwoman, a model, a social worker, a Mary Kay saleswoman, a coach, a PR professional, a menopausal nutcase, two recent Sarasota transplants, and several philosophers. And there were only four of us. It made me think (as one Gropius reader has recently written about) that we are soooo lucky to live in place with very interesting, diverse and accomplished women. ....And that many of these women have specifically sought out our community as a place to live and work.
And what's so great about A Taste of Asia? Well, aside from the owner (who's one hell of a female conversationalist herself), if you're even partially inclined to Asian food, you will find something scrumptious on the menu. Carnivore, vegetarian, picky eaters unite!
One of us in the group can be 180% identified with Sally in "When Harry Met Sally" as in:
"I'd like to take a perfectly good menu item, dissect it, reform it my way--with several substitutions that aren't on the menu anywhere--and expect you to recreate it for me."
In addition to having the grace to laugh about this, our server delivered a perfecto rendition of the request.
And I have to say that this must be the only restaurant in downtown Sarasota where you can get away with making loud and inappropriate vocalizations with your straw and your tongue, and it will not only be accepted, but people at other tables will try...and the owner of the restaurant will try. (Although I did not do this, my table mate on a previous night's visit did this and the audience participation soon allayed my initial mortified reaction.)
The windows to Main Street provide excellent insights into the latest fashions being sported around here, I might add.
Thanks for the night of laughter and good times, ladies. And if you missed any slight part of the red carpet premiere of the Coco Channel story, I see that it will be repeated at least 62 times in the next 3 months on Lifetime.
2 comments:
Hey you BM Blogging Master, thanks for your contribution always. All you woman are lucky you walked away unscathed by the menapausal nutcase we may have to put her on a leash the next time we go out:)
Nice to know you can get what you want in Sarasota as long as it's not a single,intelligent,available
man.
Oh how i wish you had taken your merry band of women down the block to our outpost at franko's on main street. where you would have been treated to the spectacle of one enterprising homeless man dressed in a tuxedo and flip flops, set up on the sidewalk outside the restaurant crooning dean martin and sinatra accompanied by his karaoke machine. it was positively surreal and a bit sad, as the only passersby were other homeless people, a few kids and the odd bicyclist or motorcycle dude. it was beyond beyond and a real slice of life:sarasota:saturday night:september!!!!! rl
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