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Tamsin (right), Beau Swayze (left)
It’s not often I get to meet a real life celebrity in L.A. but last week I had the good fortune to be seated next to Joan McNamara (of Joan’s on Third) when I sat down to dinner at Tamsin Lonsdale’s “Food Fight” party, in honor of the award winning documentary on world hunger, also called “Food Fight.”
Pepperlicious and Celery Spice (ri)1 whisky cocktails certainly helped to get conversation flowing – along with the punchy Charles Smith wines: “Eve” and the “Velvet Devil.” The dinner table overflowed with seasonal organic foods, and meats like charcuterie and shortribs.
Caroline Roman (left) Tyson Park (right)
Joan sat to my right, and Tyson Park sat to my left. Beside him was Tracy Bjelland, my friend and newly appointed Supper Club membership director (best be nice to her!). Tamsin’s friend, Darius Danesh (a Scottish musician and runner up in Pop Idol a couple of years back in the UK), made the traditional toast, thanking Tami for her on-going hostess jobs over the years and then she rose to thank new and old faces for joining. Next to her, Eddi Gathegi (who plays “Laurence” in Twilight) began to eat, breaking his IZO Cleanse three week detox.
Then I turned to get the scoop on my absolute favorite restaurant in all of L.A. So! Joan! Tell me everything! I exclaimed. She laughed modestly but I know she is use to this. She had brought her daughter with her to dinner, who runs their catering division – Carol. Her second daughter runs the marketplace.
Daniel Seidner (Buckley), Ophir Stern (Beverly)
Once we got to talking, Joan finally remembered me from my weekly trips to her 3rd street restaurant that opened in 1994, and recently expanded. The gorgeous marketplace is a toss-back to her native New York and is often described as “Balducci’s in L.A.” Joan gives out cupcakes when the lines grow too long.
I reminded her I am the one who always orders her Rex sole and the baratta prosciutto and I told her about the day my mother and I were recipients of two yellow cupcakes during a Christmas rush. Joan told me how she hates to see her customer wait and feels awful if they come and it’s not easy. She also said they have hung Halloween decorations and are gearing up for Halloween. How does she get those all her cute & charming ideas anyway? “I knew from the time I was 15 … I just knew!” she explained …
Once dinner was over, Tamsin rose again to announce hot chocolate and desserts served in the kitchen!
The Kitchen? Hmmm … what’s that mean? Well, I soon found out. Tamsin had choosen Eve on Nemo for this party – an event-only space behind Dan Tana’s on a tiny one block street called Nemo. “Eve on Nemo” will cater for you, or you can provide your own chefs to use their gourmet kitchen. “Eve on Nemo” also offers cooking classes during the week!
We wandered into the kitchen where hot chocolate and marshmellows were indeed being served. We stood around the stoves like we were snowed in for the winter and ate all the yummy desserts made by Tamsin’s chef duo Jerry and Chris Baker of The Food Matters.
In these photos: Joan McNamara, Carol McNamara, me, Daniel Siedner, Ophir Stern, Tyson Park, Tracy Bjelland, Matt Wise, Jerry Baker, JB Moresco, Katja Decker, Chris Baker.
Tagged Carol McNamara, Joan McNamara, Joan’s on Third, Los Angeles, Supper Club, Tamsin Lonsdale, Tracy Bjelland
I go to parties with mermaids – that basically makes me better than you. But don’t get too riled up – as of last week – I had never been to a mermaid party either!! Last Thursday, Scarlett Taylor and I rolled up to Tamsin Lonsdale’s “Secret Garden” party held at the home of Young, Fabulous & Broke creator, Heidi Cornell. The Tarot readers, Meg’s BBQ, Jack Wines and (ri)1 whiskey, guitar players and pretty people could not distract me from the pool. “Scarlett,” I said, “there is a mermaid in the pool.” Scarlett looks at the girl swimming around half naked and said “I want to go in. How cool. Wait, what is she wearing? What’s that in the water with her?!” And with that, we had our first mermaid sighting. She jumped up and dove backwards into the water, showing off her seashell brasserie. In dove the arms and head, followed by her bare midriff and sexy butt, and then we saw it – the long, muscular, golden tail of mermaid flipped up splashing water on the guests like a fish and then sank back down under the surface! Scarlett and I starred in shock and both agreed that mermaids are WAY cooler than vampires. Like a scene out of Peter Pan, the crowd watched mesmerized as the pretty mermaid tossed smiles at the guests, splashed around and let all the boys touch her tail!
Mermaid Mesha Kussman, creator of the Aqualillies
We were finally ushered away to have our Tarot Cards read and met the rest of the party guests which included friend, LA Native, and creator of YoungHollywood.com, RJ Williams, my good friend Carly Steel (pictured right) who you may have seen this weekend hosting the Emmys for CW and making cameos at the ET, People and HBO parties, Alexandra Lynn Gaudiani, the former power publicist from 42 West, PMK and Paramount Pictures, Nzinga Blake, a Current TV host and Sierra Leonean native, and Alexander Purcell (pictured left) owner of design firm APRRO, in Los Angeles.
Other interesting Supper Club members include Sebastian Mathews, Cori Diamond, Monika Jakisic (pictured left), a Croatian model who use to date George Clooney, and my latest favorite transplant you will be hearing a lot about from now on – Tracy Bjelland (pictured right). Tracy refers to herself as an “Ice-Cube” – half Norwegian, half Cuban, she hails from Olso, via London and Harvard University in Boston where she was a member of “The Hasty Pudding Club.” The newly launch Supper Club website allows members to view photos from the events and reconnect with guests they met at the parties. http://www.thesupperclubinc.com/
Zachary Serebrenik and friend, Miles Fisher, Tamsin Lonsdale with Alex Purcell
About The Aqualillies:
The synchronized swim troop books private parties all over LA. They told me over the holidays they we will be creating a cute new red and white themed costume for their shows. They train at various Olympic pools in Orange County and starting in November – they are going to be holding workshops! Information about the workshops will be on their website soon! www.Aqualillies.com.
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Tagged Carly Steel, Emmys, Los Angeles, Mermaid, Supper Club, Tamsin Lonsdale, Tracy Bjelland
Celebrate the Golden Era of Hollywood with a Modern Splash
L.A. promoter and friend, Tommy Alastra, has developed a new kind of party. Every Thursday nite he celebrates “the golden era of Hollywood” at the Roosevelt Pool with a special performance by the synchronized swim-squad The Aqualillies. Tommy calls event “Hollywoodland” and rightly so. Tonight he celebrates the birthday of his very good friend Jordan Buky. Music by DJ Johnny Boy.
Pool acts became the rage last summer with YSL’s pool party to benefit the Center Dance Arts and featured a water ballet performance by another syncronized swim troup called Aquartist. Then filmmaker and friend, Liz Goldwyn premiered her art film “Underwater Ballet” on billboards across Los Angeles, giving drivers a relaxing break at stop lights while her model fluttered in a pool of water wearing couture. Next Tamsin Lonsdale started up her Supper Club in LA after much success in New York and London and recently hired the Acqualillies to preform at her chic evening cocktail party at Le Petit Hotel in June.
http://www.aqualillies.com/
Watch a video of The Aqualillies at the Roosevelt last week.
Watch more videos of Tommy’s night on Youtube.
*This party is by invitation only.
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