Pat and I were treated to dinner at Acapella, in Tribeca, last night by his colleague Dan and Dan's daughter Devon. Dan had told us about Devon's interesting background with the Peace Corps and working for Ken Burns, and it was cool to meet her. It is perhaps only through meeting someone's daughter that you get to learn about some lesser-known aspects of their personal history, such as their altercation maybe fifteen years earlier with an angry man in a sandwich board, who traded punches with Dan while Devon hit him with her handbag. Somehow, that didn't come up the first time we had dinner with Dan.
My starter was agnolotti stuffed with lobster, in a creamy sauce with chunks of shrimp. It was fantastic. As I think about it, I should have tried to order that in a larger portion, as an entree. My entree was a steak that was only ordinary. We ordered sides of asparagus, spinach, and fried slices of potato, all of which were decent.
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