"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

One of my friends Sarah Schneider* was recently offered a two-week stint as a guest writer for Saturday Night Live (which, if all goes well, may parlay into a full time position).  Not many people know that each week there are roughly 50 skits written for SNL, of which only 11 or so make it to production.  Despite those odds, a skit written by our very own Sarah Schneider made it to air last weekend! 

To celebrate our soon to be famous friend, a small group met for dinner at FridaySaturdaySunday.  On the plus side, FridaySaturdaySunday has a bar, which guarantees a $10 max markup for its bottles of wine, AND allows its patrons to byob without charging a corkage fee.  That type of variety and accommodation is extremely hard to find in Philly.  On the down side, what you can save on alcohol, you will spend on the food.

I started with the five-leaf salad with goat cheese, walnuts, honey, and walnut oil vinaigrette.

It was clean and crisp and I really liked the walnut oil vinaigrette.  If it had been $6 instead of $12, I would have no complaints.  For my entree I had the crab cake.

Although I could have done without the jicama salad, the cake had a ton of crab meat (too often crab cakes are all bread) and the remoulade sauce was nicely spicy without being overpowering.  Again, if it had been $10 or $15 I'd have been completely satisfied, but it was just a little too "ordinary" for a $20 singular crab cake (I got the appetizer portion, the entree portion, 2 cakes with potatoes instead of jicama salad, is $27).

Here's a shot of BMH and SH, visiting from D.C., at the restaurant:

(Sorry for blinding you guys with my phone camera's flash!)

After dinner we headed back to JEG's condo for drinks, desserts, and SNL.  A shot of our fab hostess at work:

Dinner ended a little earlier than we planned, so we played a few hands of Scattergories while we waited for the SNL to come on.

All and all it was a great, and hilarious, night.  Congrats Schneids!

*You will note that unlike the usual cast of characters in my life, I've used Sarah's full name.  She's on her way to stardom so I figure if the jig isn't up now, it will be soon enough.