Time for another dinner interview article? Yes it is! Click here to read about my recent trip to Brooklyn and my dinner with stranger Lynda Nyberg. Or don’t click. It’s your choice. Really, don’t feel pressured. But that link to the article is feeling awfully sad today and a click would really cheer it up.

Recently I went with a large group of friends to one of my favorite restaurants, Taverna Cretekou in Old Town, Alexandria. Highly recommended, especially on a Thursday night when they have live music and dancing. The food is consistently excellent, the house wine is surprisingly tasty (and cheap, bonus) and the waiters are effortlessly entertaining. [...]

At last, the sixth dinner with a stranger. During a recent trip to Santa Monica I sat down for burgers with a very pleasant man named Diego Barquinero. Some people may know him better as VeeKay the Clown. Read my interview with Diego/VeeKay to find out about his life in the circus.

In New York last weekend, I was able to reunite with Margarita Pracatan — a previous Dining With Strangers interviewee — and she was kind enough to record this video: To find out more about this Cuban singing sensation, read my dinner interview with her from December, including videos of the two of us singing [...]

Back from a brief weekend visit to New York City and two new dinners with strangers. All right, I’m not being entirely truthful because one of them was a brunch. More on the interviews in a later update. While in Manhattan I also got to meet up again with a certain stranger who was featured [...]