I don' know. Where do you wanna eat?

I went to lunch with my friend Brian. He's from Cape Town, South Africa. We had the usual "I don' know, where do you wanna' eat?" back and forth conversation for a while until he said,"I know a place. But I don't know how to describe it. Let's just go and you tell me how to describe it."

So we went down by Framestore on Noel Street, to a place called "Bodean's". They had tin signs on the wall with pigs and cows on them and long tall tables with tall stools at them. There was a long queue to order and we stood talking for a while. Then I realized that I would need to order soon and grabbed a menu off the counter.

It was a BBQ place! They had pulled pork sandwiches, ribs and barbeque chicken, cole slaw and the works. I told Brian what kind of place it was and he said they only call the thing you cook on a barbeque, not the whole place. So I explained that it's not just what's on the menu, but it's practically a whole culture down in the southern U.S.

My "Soho Special" was pretty good, but it needed a bunch of BBQ sauce to make it so. But the main effect of the whole place was to make me homesick for Lucille's in Torrance. It was quite fun to get to tell Brian all about the place that he took me to.

Oh, and as we were sitting there eating, I looked up and saw Jacob and Dan with a couple of other guys from Framestore at another table eating. I was quite surprised at this and decided that though they said they were my friends, they couldn't really be, since they had not told me about this fun American style BBQ place before. (Just kidding.)

I'll probably be back there again before I head back to the states.

Dave