Location Fame - NOT. Going the Distance

Watched a movie on the plane on the way to my skiing trip. A great rom-com called GOING THE DISTANCE starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore (lurve her!). Never before have I recognised a specific location in a movie other than famous places such as parks or landmarks... until this movie.

There's a scene in the movie where Justin's character meets up with his buddies to discuss him visiting his new long-distance girlfriend. They're eating in a diner and I instantaneously recognised the place as none other than a place I visited in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA, two years ago.

'Relish' The Diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Yes it looks like a tin box

With a very authentic 'diner' look with a matching menu...

My picture of the diner from the inside - look familiar?

Scene from the movie : GOING THE DISTANCE (location : RELISH Diner)

Scene from 'my visit' to said diner back in 2007

(yes those blinds in the back ground are simply UNMISTAKEABLE - *trust me*

The first chance I got after getting off the plane, i got myself online and googled the movie til I confirmed I was right about the venue. Although it was bittersweet as I found out that it shut this year in July *boo* :'( *sniff* (The blog entry that confirms it here )

I remember the ambience to be authentic and the food to be amazing ... check out my blog post on it from way back in April 2007 here

Does this make me famous by association or simply desperate? Or neither? I just wanted to share with you :)

RELISHing every moment of WILLIAMSBURGer

... so continue on from my last entry, in order to aid recovery from bumping into Mr Wetlands in Brooklyn Museum of Art (He having travelled from London to be in NY for 3 nights, and I having travelled from KL) we found ourselves at a diner (resembling a aluminium bread box) called RELISH, in an area in Brooklyn called Williamsburg - Bjorkfan described this area to be "tragically hip" but more "tragic" than "hip"... *OUCH*. My take on Williamsburg? A bit like Hoxton or Shoreditch or perhaps Dalston in London about 5 years ago....

RELISH (like being in a tin box)


Bjorkfan & the camera-shy Mr. Wetlands

... this would be the 3rd day in a row... yes, I said THIRD day - that i'm eating burger and fries and I have to say the meal at RELISH was FANTASTIC

Before Boogalooboo...
After Boogalooboo

After filling our bellies, we wandered around Williamsburg and these are 2 of my favourite pics...

Spot the error (I thought this only happened in Asia)

Yes these are shoes on the overhead wires. Bjork fan tells me that back in the day this was a sign from dealers to say drugs are available for sale in the area. These days kids just do it for a laugh. What a waste of a good pair of shoes...

Sadly after this we all parted ways - Mr. Wetlands to catch his flight back to London; Bjorkfan home to study and BMW6 to chill; Princess K back to the civility of Manhattan :P and Boogalooboo to my hotel to rest and prepare for NiNoNo's arrival :). The rest of the night flew by. NiNaNo walked through my room door within half and hour of returning... we caught up quickly, took a power nap, got ourselves all glammed up and made our way to meet HouseDancer and N.B.I.G. at a club Lotus in the MeatPacking/Garment District... Saturday nights @ Lotus is perfect for networking I am told and we certainly met a lot of people. Very friendly, very warm and incredibly welcoming. Of course it made a huge difference that we had N.B.I.G. & Housedancer introducing us to everyone.
I had promised NiNaNo that she'd have a huge first night.... the rest is history.... ;)

Welcome to the Big Apple NiNaNo!!!
The LOTUS Residents
N.B.I.G. & Boogalooboo