i'll take mine rare

so its restaurant week in boston. did you know that EVERY restaurant sells out during restaurant week? apparently $30 dinners are appealing to people. yes, it was a bit naive of me to actually think that 7 of us could go to one of the 15 places we were interested on a wednesday night. the super swank restaurants were officially sold out on the restaurant week website so i didn't even bother with them. that's right, they weren't even on the list of 15. we were cursed. we finally settled on eastern standard kitchen. outdoor dining, i was very excited. not to mention, it had to be great because it is the first solo project of garrett somebody who was the partner of barbara lynch - my favorite celebrity - in her restaurants.

so off we went. it was good. it was great to have dinner with the old restaurant crew - its been about a year. i got steak tartare which has been over a year (more like 2) because you can't have that when you're prego. and then i got spaghetti carbonara which was delicious. the best part was catching up on all the hollywood rumors that someone always manages to have. last night's big dish was that katie holmes is being paid $25M to stay with tom cruise for 5 years by the church of scientology because they are trying to turn him straight. that's right. they have an official program that converts gay men into hetero men. the other piece of it is to bolster the church membership for the younger generation. its true. at least according to melissa the hairdresser. you heard it here first. i'll check back in on this one in 2010. i think katie will wise up before then and dump the kook. especially if they have a baby and she suffers from any sort of post-partem illness. tom knows a lot about that.