Lifestyle: God I've missed going to places like this...

I had exclaimed tonight, and I have uttered it in the past, but it is one thing to travel to some place and discover something new and unseen, but what I find more enchanting, more exciting, is when you find a mystery in your own back yard....such was The Bauer Kitchen on King. 

Yes it's atmosphere was quite appealing, a mix of old loft and new post-modern fixtures. Bonus that they had my scotch, the 12 year old Glenlivet available. But it wasn't the food nor the drink that made this place special tonight, it was the people.

I had met Hilary Abel at an event hosted at the Art Bar. My wife at the time was quite a social butterfly, and left me at the bar while she mingled. Luckily Hilary had carved out a niche there at the bar herself. We immediately hit it off, and have stayed in touch since then. It was she who organized a little get together called Cinq a Sept tonight at the Kitchen. 

The invited were a select group of her friends, and what I had come to find as great group of young professionals, with interesting conversation to be had. I'd like to think I was my usual charming self, and enjoyed a convo that ranged from travel to sport to religion...I think potentially I've expanded my circle of friends tonight, which is something I have been lacking this last year and a half.

I left with a smile, this winter will not be as bleak as I thought...until le prochaine Cinq a Sept...and the exchange of new ideas with new friends...


Adieu