Do you still go out to Lunch with the Ladies?
by Beth on Oct.10, 2009, under Events, Mompreneurs
How times have changed. Tracy Schneider wrote a blog post on the Al Dente Blog about Ladies Who Lunch . She wrote:
A new Neiman Marcus opened a stone’s throw from Seattle, in Bellevue, a few weeks ago, and I have been looking forward to taking my daughter to the store’s restaurant, Mariposa, even before it opened.
I love going out to lunch with my ten-year-old, but I was particularly excited about this lunch. Not simply because it was a special time to spend together, but because it was also chance for me to go back in time.
Back in time to the Bird Cage, Lord & Taylor’s in-store restaurant that my mother and I would visit for lunch in the ’60s when my family was on vacation in New York City.
I don’t remember there being tables at the Bird Cage, rather ingenious chairs that your lunch tray would be hooked onto once you sat down. The room was always packed, typically with women, rarely a man. Sometimes, models wandered the floor, holding little signs that described the outfits they were wearing. Looking up, and there were dozens of bird cages hanging down from the ceiling.
I don’t remember what we ate at the Bird Cage, but it could easily have been the meal I always order at Mariposa, the lunch plate that comes with chicken salad, fruit salad, a small muffin and the restaurant’s Mandarin Orange Souffle, aka jello.
For Neiman Marcus, that souffle is “the number one ‘ladies lunch’ item throughout the country”. For me it’s a way to travel back in time.
The rest of the article includes a recipe for the souffle. I was wondering after I read the article, do others remember times like this? Do we try to duplicate them with our children? I have 3 boys, so we have been trying to duplicate ESPN zone most days.
