“A few nights later, the effect of this newfound glow became clear. I walked into Le Cirque 2000, the gilt-edged establishment on the East Side. ‘Sorry,’ I was told. ‘We don’t have a table tonight.’ No problem, I thought. I took a step back and tried to identify the person in power. Seconds later, a gentleman in a tuxedo approached. ‘We were wondering if you had a table for two?’ I said, clutching a bill in my pocket…but not handing it over. He bowed. ‘Your table is ready,’ he said, and led us into the dining room.”

This was taken from:

gourmet dot com’s “Pocketful of Dough”

…I don’t think I’ll rely on Manny Caballero’s “asset.”

The maitre ‘d disputes the NY Post story while confirming the President did have dinner there and ate food like anybody else. So this means:

1. If not large, then small entourage? This actually then confirms Remonde’s original account of 15-20 persons in two tables (each Le Cirque table seats 8 persons so 15 or so is plausible) except that would make per person dining bill $20,000…. Read More

2. The President did or did not order expensive wine? Perhaps this is what the maitre d’ said was a lie?

3. The bill was neither confirmed nor denied by the maitre ‘d for “privacy issues” which goes to the heart of the controversy; so if not categorically denied or confirmed, we’re back to where we’ve been all along: and no government official, remonde, rep. suarez, the romualdezes, etc. have categorically denied bill…

So the matre ‘d actually confirms the originally remonde alibi of a smaller group; so where does this leave rep. suarez’s later assertion le cirque group was 50 persons? well, it brings us to that supposed consul staff text saying there were two le cirque dinners, and suarez is headed in that direction because now he’s saying there was another new york dinner.