When I ate at March a few months ago, my date and I were wearing jeans since we had just gone to see a movie nearby and stopped in on a whim. We definitely felt a bit out of place with the considerably older clientele all wearing jackets and their Sunday best. Regardless, I’m sure we outspent most of them when it came to the food and wine. Well apparently Wayne Nish has seen more and more diners like us and has decided to move with the times. According to Frank Bruni’s review in this past week’s NY Times, the restaurant has been reinvented, changing the name to Nish and sporting a less formal air. A good move by a great chef in my opinion. I’ll have to check out the new incarnation someday soon.

In other news of change, I’ve learned that my name is no longer on the Wall of Fame at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans. Apparently the post-Katrina Acme no longer has a Wall of Fame. Not sure why they did it, but that’s what’s been reported in the latest Rosengarten Report. Damn shame.

Last night I ate at Suba with Twoin. We were just trying to kill an hour and a half before heading over to Esth’s surprise birthday party, so we opted for tapas instead of a full dinner. The dishes we had were hit and miss. An ethereally light bacalao croquette was good, the ham croquette was not (it tasted like a jalapeno popper would taste like if there were no jalapeno in it). The short rib meat was good, but it was wrapped in a cheesy pasta-like thing that had no flavor. The meatball that was supposed to have foie gras in it did not taste of foie gras and was slathered with a sauce that overwhelmed the whole dish. The mini empanadas were pretty good, but covered in that same sauce again. The bread with tomato and tuna belly turned out to have cooked tuna belly instead of the toro we were expecting. What a waste of tuna belly! The lamb skewers were actually excellent, not overseasoned so you could really taste the beauty of that perfect charring, and served atop chickpeas marinated in citrus with tiny orange segments. The shrimp and chorizo skewers were quite good, but pretty much exactly what you’d expect. We finished with a dish of the spiced almonds which were outstanding. The mojitos were excellent and very strong, but served in very small glasses and not really worth the $13 they were charging. Of course that didn’t stop us from ordering another round.