Going to Alba Osteria for dinner tomorrow night; I love that place. The highlight for me? Their excellent carne cruda. I’m not sure where else in town I can actually get a restaurant to serve me raw (not rare, but raw) beef. I doubt anyone would be surprised, but can I say that raw beef prepared correctly is a delicacy that the CEO quite enjoys? Cold, raw beef.
This reminds me of a story: the CFO and I were in Paris, eating at a fairly nice restaraunt. The CFO was ordering dinner for the both of us in her perfect French, since I could only point at the menu and grunt. She indicated to the waiter that the gentlemen would be having steak tartare. Up to this point the entire conversation had been in French. The waiter turns to me and says, in perfect English: “Sir, you know that the steak is raw?” It damn well better be, garcon.
