I posted on your Louro tasting review about our visit there, one whose success I owe to you. Thanks so much!

On your recommendation and based on your gawwww-geous photos, we had dinner here tonight. We were a party of four: Husband, son, sister-in-law from Circleville, and me. I mean, if you love it, how could another Circleville gal resist? Yeah, she loved it, too.

The lard butter was awesome, really rich and porky, but bright from the arugula, spinach, and spring onions (I think). Spouse and I split the baby lettuces and roasted porcinis. The accompanying cipollinis can be used instead of methadone, they are so addicting. Son was happy with the carrot salad, but the scent of balsamic reductions from the plates surrounding him was a little too intense. Me? I could lick that stuff off of a NYC sidewalk after the St. Patrick’s Day parade. He’ll learn.

We each had a large plate: Two fabulous strip steaks with pickled blueberries (Wha?? Yah!!), greens, and cornbread puree; one suckling pig, a brick of delicious porky bits bathed in piquillo pepper sauce; and the sesame-crusted cod that honestly should’ve been called “baconfish,” it was so smoky and delicious.

I have no idea how the Cherry Coke dessert was because son didn’t share. The rest of us had the beignets and fell in love. The addition of the peanut butter in a deep-fried dessert brought up the topic of the deep-fried fantasies at the Circleville Pumpkin Festival. We decided to follow sis-in-law there in October.

Katie, I love you. Thank you for making me look way cooler than I am with your wonderful recommendations.

Also, what MBG said.

Never regret a relationship that you left with a brand-new wide-angle lens. That’s what I always say.

I really think you can do the three restaurants in four days simply because you’ll be living on anticipation and adrenaline. This is going to be an amazing trip if you can nab all of these reservations. For my boyfriend and me, Per Se is always the most filling tasting menu ever. EMP is somehow perfectly timed to our appetites, and we had room for Cadbury Creme Eggs after coming home from Brooklyn Fare, but Per Se has wrecked us every single time. It makes us feel inadequate in the best way. So I think EMP>Brooklyn Fare>Per Se is the way to go. (And work in a Momofuku Ko lunch while you’re at it.)