And love to both of you!! My nieces are around Becky's age, and I felt like I had known her forever!!

Cite

Good food, and all the wine you can drink for $69 a person. [/b][/quote]I'm there!


Don Cardi [/b][/quote]Like we could actually go without you??

Now, we just need SC and Lori. Just tell Lori I'll show her the best guys in the neighborhood with the knockoff handbags!!

Is September 10th a set date?

No it is not.

That is on a saturday, correct? Hmmm, saturdays are pretty tough for me.

Sunday is openeing day for Football, so that's out for me as I probably will have tickets to the game.

Is Friday the 9th good for everyone?


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Sept 9th or 10th is fine for me.

Actually I prefer the 9th lol


I will personally bring the rope to tie DS to his chair :p

edit: actually Sept 7th, 8th or 9th is okay for me, 10th is not lol

The ONLY nights good for Lori and me are Wednesdays and Sundays.

Wednesday works for me.


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Weekdays are tough for me, especially since I believe that would be the 7th, which is the first day of school. Plus, if we go to Cite, I don't even want to THINK of having to get up for work/school the next day.

Wednesdays are good for me, too, but only alternate ones, so I'm looking at 9/7 or 9/21/ or alternate Wednesdays after that as OK.

If we do a Wednesday, Cite might not be the best place for a few reasons...

1) The wine dinner isn't available until after 8:00 PM, which will make it a late night for a week night.

2) Not all of us are that into wine drinking, and the food, while good, is not great IMO.

3) $69 per person, plus tax & tip brings the cost up to about $85-90 per person, plus $25-30 to park in Manhattan, plus tolls, plus the cost of drinks if you're not into the wine, makes it pretty expensive unless you're gonna drink a lot of wine.

Instead, I suggest that we go to Casa Dante in Jersey City again.

We can start earlier, it' a lot less expensive, it's more convenient since almost all of us live in Jersey or Rockland County (sorry, SC, but you and Lori can sleep over if you want) and the food is better than Cite.

SB we'd have to just eat and limit the after party lol

Great choice Plaw. If it works for all of us, including SC and Lori, I don't mind going there again. I can use some of that Garlic bread!

Sicilian Babe pointed out that the 7th is tough for her as it is the first day of school for her kids.

So how about we look at the 14th?

Does that work for everyone?


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How's Wednesday, 9/21, in Jersey City? About the same travel time as into the city, but no worries about tunnel traffic.

I miscounted my Wednesdays, DC, and edited my post above.

9/14 is no good for me. 9/21 or alternate Wednesdays after that work, though.

Casa Dante
-- City's Best
The choice of wiseguys, lawyers and senators


Sounds good to me lol

All wednesdays are fine for me.

Where'd you hear that? It happens to be true.

But if you're paying for the Wine Dinner, then you want to drink the wine!!

If we wanted to do something in NYC, we might want to try Becco. Because it's in the theatre district, it gets its biggest crowds between 6-7:30. It has an entire wine list with selections for $20, and the food is very good. It's owned by Lidia Bastiancih, and here's the website, if anyone is interested: Becco

Where'd you hear that? It happens to be true. [/b][/quote]I did a search for Casa Dante and I found it on some kind of newjerseyguide.com or something like that (I lost the link) it gave a review, details etc.

Who's running this dinner, Appolonia?
"Monday Tuesday Saturday Sunday Wednesday."


The 21st is fine with me.


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But if you're paying for the Wine Dinner, then you want to drink the wine!!

[/b][/quote]oh yeah

I meant that we wouldn't be in the bar til 2am

I vote Casa Dante.

The food is good, it's convenient for almost everyone, and the place is perfect for a crowd of our size.


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Where'd you hear that? It happens to be true. [/b][/quote]I did a search for Casa Dante and I found it on some kind of newjerseyguide.com or something like that (I lost the link) it gave a review, details etc. [/b][/quote]I've been there maybe 30 times or more since I discovered the place after moving to NJ seven years ago.

I've seen several celebrities there, including former Jersey City Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler and basketball TV analyst Bill Raftery.

But the best time I had there was when we saw comedian Pat Cooper.

He was right next to us a table with about 10 people, and while they were waiting for their desert, he stood up and did about a five minute monologue which was absolutely filthy and hilarious.

He had the complete attention of the whole place which was packed at the time, and everyone was in stitches.

No fair. I LIVE IN THE WRONG STATE

Sounds good to me, how is the price range?

How's the veal?

Price range, depending on how many orders of mussels and garlic bread we get for the table should be about $50-60 per person, including tax and tip.

And the veal is the best in Jersey City.

DMC, take my word for it, when it comes to restaurants, our friend Plaw knows how to pick em.

I've eaten there with him and it's very good.


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Good enough for me

Can't wait to see you guys again.

My girlfriend wanted to talk to plaw more as well, you left when she wasn't there.

That should be good for us. Can somebody PM me time and directions when we get closer to the date? Thanks.

As I told PL, I want to play with my new friends again!!

so when is Mr. Babe (that name must piss him off lol) going to join the boards?

Also to anyone with a significant other who isn't sure whether to bring them or not, my girlfriend is not into the mafia like I am and she had a great time. Mr. Babe did not seem like he was into it as much as everyone else and he looked like he had a great time.

So we're tentatively set on Casa Dante for Wednesday 9/21, then? Say at 7:00 PM?

Good for me.


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