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January 28, 2005
Starstruck in Seattle...
When we moved into our apartment in November of last year, they were building a new Brazilian BBQ restaurant on the ground floor of the building. The other day Dawnise and I were walking past when we noticed they had put a menu up in their menu box, so we took a look, and discovered they were scheduled to open tonight (Friday the 28th).
We invited some friends (Brian and Dina, and Scott and Megan) to accompany us to the opening - we figured it might suck, but it was worth a shot. Scott had to take a rain check, but Brian and Dina were up for it - so at 6:30 Dina and their son Lucas picked Brian and I up from the office and we made our way down town. En-route I called Dawnise, who went down and discovered there was an hour wait for a table - too long for the small - so we decided to head up to the 5 Spot for dinner.
Along the way we changed course and decided to try the Fondue restaurant in Queen Ann, but they had a 75 minute wait, so the 5 Spot it was. We found parking with relative ease, and were seated pretty much immediately.
We hadn't been sitting for more than a few minutes, when the wait staff seated a couple with two kids at the booth behind us. I did a double-take. The guy sitting down could have been Dave Matthews' identical twin. I figured I was just imagining it 'till Dina turned around and I saw the same look on her face that must have been on mine.
Brian - being the guy who listens to bands that, by his own admission, sound like "a refrigerator falling down the stairs" hadn't a clue why Dina and I were staring at the poor guy behind us trying to eat his dinner - so we clued him in.
I tried calling a friend to have him do some quick googling - but he didn't answer, Brian checked Rhapsody from his phone - but Matthews had no home town listed. So we spent the rest of the meal trying to ignore the elephant in the room.
We finished dinner and were getting up to leave when Dina went over and asked.
No identical twins involved - it was Dave Matthews.
Eating at the 5 Spot on a Friday night with his family.
Kinda cool, eh?
Posted by dberger at January 28, 2005 9:35 PM
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Got your messages on my phone *after* reading this blog, so it was extra amusing to hear them standing in the deli counter line. I'm with your refrigerator-music friend; know who Matthews is, but couldn't pick him out of an lineup of albino amputees. Still - cool. :-)
Posted by: Hendel at January 30, 2005 10:58 AM