A Different Kind of Dancing in the Dark

So here's the thing about public bathrooms... I tend to flush with my foot (shoe-encased of course) and then as quickly as I can I turn around because, as we all know from all those nasty, scary 20/20 reports, a high-powered toilet, such as you find in public bathrooms, can send a mist quite a distance. So my public bathroom experiences tend to end pirouettically.

So here I am at EatBar, and I head to the Ladies Room. I enter a stall and while I am in there I hear someone else enter the bathroom and enter the only other stall. She uses the facilities, flushes, leaves the stall, I hear the water running at the sink and then I am plunged into darkness. I say "Hello?? Helllllllllllllooooooooooooooooo??" but she is gone. I wonder if the whole bar, nay, neighborhood has experienced a power outage. I fumble for my purse and find my Palm Pilot. I switch it on and with the light of it piloting my way (is that why they call them Pilots?) I complete my flush and pirouette and head to the sink. Again with the Pilot I see that the light switch is in the off position. I switch it on and curse the woman who just left. There were only two stalls and she had to pass the closed door of the one I was in to get to the one she was in. Surely she realized there was someone else in here. Oh hahahahaha. What a DEElightful joke.

Before I start to seethe I try to find another way to look at this. Maybe she didn't notice the closed door. Maybe she was just trying to save the restaurant or the planet some electricity.

MutterGrouseGrumble.

EatBar Wine & Cheese Flight

Attended a meetup hosted by the VA Wine Club last night at EatBar which is connected to the very fashionable Tallula Restaurant in Arlington.

We're glad we went and we met some very nice people.

EatBar offers a great deal in their wine & cheese flight pairing. We had 3 Spanish wines: one white-the Nessa Albariño 2005[YUM!] and two reds: an Arrocal 2005 and a Aramantes 2005. They were each very nice and interesting to compare-especially the two reds. Plus we got slices of three wonderful Spanish cheeses: a Mahon, a Manchego, and a Garrotxa, all of which were very good. They were paired for us and served with a fruit chutney of some sort (blueberries and raisins?) and toast points. Excellent! All for $10. Such a deal. And if the flight isn't your thing, Tallula, who partners with Planet Wine, boasts a rather extensive wine program featuring over 350 wines by the bottle and more than 65 wines available by the glass. Looking at the Tallula menu we're thinking we'll have to come back for a meal!