a hen in the forest is worth two in the hand?

Last night was an exciting evening.

It started with an impulse trip to the jeans store (i refuse to name the jeans store because it's embarassing, but they sell the only jeans that fit me. so there.) where i got a new pair of jeans (bringing the grand total of jeans to two (2)).

Then I met up with Seth and Chris and we headed down to The Tank to watch Deirdre's Sweden screening (Package Deals). The videos were all very good - one involved cutting off limbs and having sex with a face (that's the one i didn't love, but it was still entertaining), and there were lots of music videos by The Knife (awesome).

Then Seth and I headed down (sans my umbrella, but that's a different story) or up, to Aquagrill (a fine eatery featuring an awesome raw bar and good seafood). Here is Seth presiding over the remains of our oyster sampler. The dinner was fantastic, surpassed, of course, only by the company. Also, the sommelier was a fawning man with lots of jewelry - as you'd expect - who told us that the wine we ordered was very "minerial".

All of the oysters were fantastic - my favorites were the "widow's hole" (mostly for the name), the Totten Inlet, and the Coromandel (which were creamy and really good). Also good were the Kumomoto, which were smaller and less flavorfull than the large ones, but were still oceany and good. Apparently the chef liked the way in which we roll, because he sent out some salmon tar tar, and I had the yellowfin tuna (with crispy rice cakes that were AWESOME), and Seth had the truffle encrusted cod (very tasty with "hen of the forest" mushrooms. hen. of. the. forest.).

they were delicious.

we finished it up (sheena, we got it for you) with a lavendar-creme-brulee with an orange escence cookie thing. it was astounding. and also, of course, the chef sent out some amuse-bouches for us. because, again, he liked our style.

All in all, one of the best meals I've had in quite some time.

thanks, Seppo!