The downside of being the logistics person in a group of friends is that, sometimes, you have to deal with the logistics of constant changes to the party. Suddenly, on a Saturday night, I was in a position of having to find a good place to eat in New York on Tuesday night for five, then six, then seven people. Ha. For better or worse, I found the first highly rated restaurant on Resy with availability for 7 people at a reasonable time of day. I’m not saying this is the most in-depth method of restaurant decisions, but it works. So it is we find ourselves in The Brindle Room, for a pre-wedding catch up that might as well be Jamie’s stag do. We devour a portion of the loaded fries daily special and immediately order another. My burger as a main is a little bit generic, the all-American cheese a bit fluorescent for my taste and the patty fine but indistinct. The chocolate mousse, though, redeems the experience for the most part. I polish it off immensely quickly, despite its richness (which the whipped cream certainly helps cut through). The beer comes in properly iced glasses, and that’s no bad thing in this weather. Maybe that’s enough.