Last night I ended up at Tavern on the Green, of all places, and though I left on the early-ish side to get some sleep since it appears I’ve been talked into heading out to the Hamptons again this weekend, it was actually a fun time. As first I was a bit skeptical, given that Tavern on the Green is, like, where you take your grandma for her birthday, or where you have dinner when you graduate or something. It’s not that the food’s totally awesome or it’s crazy nice or anything (though KM said the food last night was good), but that it seems to have sorta cultivated that sort of vibe rather than the vibe a good Thursday night party gives off. Plus, I mean, it’s on the Upper West Side, which isn’t exactly party central. Anyway, I definitely asked KO to make sure I was understanding correctly…
KO: “Tavern tomorrow night, though – around 7:30/8!”
Me: “BTW, where’s this ‘Tavern‘ place you keep talking about tomorrow? The one in the Village? The one in the Park?”
KO: “Tavern on the green in central park… This year, they’re actually throwing parties there…”
This turned out to be the case.
I was suspicious, but I’ll try basically anything once (prison rape excepted, please) and agreed to caravan up there. As it turned out there was a fashion show there last night, so it was hard to gauge how much of the (quite attractive) crowd was the regular set versus a one-off set, but in the future I’m going to consider it a new Thursday possibility…
