Lennie Rose, the founder of Big Ooga in Chicago, let me know that she would be in NYC over the Thanksgiving holiday. She and I have been corresponding for a few years now thanks to our connection through our blogs.
We both thrive on getting fabulous entrepreneurs together in community. I’m also a big fan of her sincere, funny and deeply personal blog writing style. I was very excited to meet her in person.
I chose Hangawi, an intimate, quiet and vegetarian Korean restaurant on 32nd Street in Manhattan. We ordered the tasting menu, so that food would simply appear as we gabbed. We covered business, family, travel, visions, you name it.
Before you knew it, dessert was being served, my train back to CT was beckoning and a deeper relationship had been forged. How nice to be able to put a real person with an online personality. It was a real treat!
OMG! You guys look like sisters! 🙂
And thank you, Jane, for letting us in on a great secret that HanGawi seems to be. I am always on the lookout for great vegetarian places.
@Olga
You’re right! LOL
Once I began reading Jane’s blog it allowed me to see and feel the soul of what she cared about. Yes, it reflected what she does..but on a deeper level her admiration of those she works with is what spoke volumes about WHO she is. That’s why I wanted to meet her and that’s why we had such a great time. Between the waiters in dresses who kept kneeling on my new green coat, the unrecognizable food, which Jane said was an acquired taste and being in NY – none of it was familiar yet all of it made me feel at home. I was a traveler in my own life with Jane as the destination. Darling, I can’t thank you enough for the extraordinary evening where the page met the heart of why we are connected.
@Lennie
You just brought everyone who wasn’t there right to the table with us. Thanks for allowing me to re-live such a fun evening.