レストランに案内されて座った席は増設したばかりという
スペース。なんとなく殺風景だけど、ニューヨークにある昔からある小さくて美味しいイタリア料理店はこんな感じなのかもとヘンに納得（ニューヨークは観光で一度行っただけ）。なんと言ってもウェイターが若造ではなくて初老のおじちゃんなだけでかなりポイント高。で肝心な味の方もバッチリで、牛のグリルは久しぶりのオイシイお肉だった。もっと食べさせてー。2種類あったパスタから選んだつもりのイカスミのパスタ。数日前に食べたいと話してたばかりだったから、かなり喜んだのに、なんと出て来たのは黒くないパスタ。給仕人に「イカスミのパスタ（頼んだんだけど）？」と伝えると「カラスミのパスタ（頼んだんでしょ）？」と笑われてしまった。嗚呼、なんて悲しい勘違い！
帰りに渋谷のSoftで友人に合流。「今日入籍しました」というカップルと知り合って（おそらく彼等の）シャンパンで一緒に乾杯。おめでとう！
At the restaurant, we sat down in a
new space they have just built. It looked quite bleak, but I thought that a nice old tiny Italian restaurant in NY might look like this (I've been to NY just once for a few days). I liked that the waiters at Yankuq weren't young, but nice elderly men. The food was nice, especially the beef steak I had, I wanted to have more. There were two choices of pasta, and I chose Vermicelli con Bottarga e Rucola. I thought that it will be Squid Ink Pasta, which I've been wanting to eat these days, but when the pasta arrived it wasn't black. When I asked the waiter 'Is this Ikasumi (Squid Ink) Pasta?', he smiled and told me 'That is Karasumi (dried mullet roe) Pasta'. Doh! They sounds quite similar in Japanese.
We went to join friends at Soft in Shibuya afterward, and we got to know a couple who had just got married so we celebrated with (their?) champagne! Congratulations!
