Meet @ Circa

I love New York's Midtown district with its regal candor, its bustling charisma, its sophisticated sensibility. After my interview, I spent about a half hour close to boiling in the heat as I walked down the vivacious city streets in my black BCBG blazer (cinched with a hip belt, natch!)

I decided to stop for a short lunch and luckily for me, I saw a kosher place right along the way. I passed Circa NY, that popular dairy delight on West 33rd. How popular was it? The line was so long, sheitel-covered women and kippah-covered men were out the door. Not going there. No matter, I hopped across the street to Meet @ Circa, normally a quaint meat eatery (hence the title Meet, or Meat @ Circa, clever, they put the e and a together on the header) but fortunately including a 9 Days Pareve menu this week. I ordered a "special" tuna sub (special because it's filled with delicious avocado) and munched happily). The raised bar stools and square table booths gave it a 50s panash, I noticed as I sat by the window, read my current can't-put-it-down book of choice (see past entry) and glanced up occasionally to people watch. A mother wearing a boho type skirt and printed bandana head covering...a Lubavitch Hasid...three cute curly haired twenty somethings (one wearing a yalmulke) with thick Brooklyn accents. It's little moments like this, though inconsequential in character, that make my ordinary life that much more interesting.