and anything can happen. We always see people we know (a friend was working on a grant proposal in the bar while sipping a Gibson and eating crispy oysters). And we always hear about famous patrons even if there aren't any celebrities that night. (Our waiter Johnny Guffey, above left, showed us an origami rocket ship folded by Richard Garriot who took the paper into space.) Sometimes strange things happen, too. The party celebrating a birthday nearby was talking about opening wine bottles with a knife so Johnny retrieved a large knife from the kitchen, a fresh bottle of champagne and one of the men at the table took it outside and gave it a whack at the seam below the cork and the bottle opened cleanly, breaking that top 'bulge' away. (Why you'd need to open a champagne in this old "sword strike" fashion I don't know unless the cork was well and truly stuck. Or you were 'just demonstrating!")Jeffrey's is at 12th and West Lynn. We walked over. It's kind of a long and uphill walk. We took a cab home. If you are an Austinite or visit Austin, Jeffrey's is an expensive but wonderful restaurant.
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