Place: Magnolia restaurant
Celeb: Kevin Connolly

Magnolia is yet another, new hipster supper joint that sprouted up in the Hollywood-Sunset corridor. If you enjoy quiet conversation and not to have your throat bleeding from screaming over the din of nearby younger tonsils drowning you out over some droll anecdote, then Magnolia is definitely not for you. However, the food is above decent. It's surprisingly good, in fact. They also have delightful baked brussels sprout that reinvigorates your usual notion of these usually unseemly green balls. Magnolia is the epitome of urban, Hollywood chic and is age representative of the hood since the mean age of a patron here is 25.

The wait for dinner for two on a Friday night isn't so bad. There's an intimidating crowd of folks out front but it moves fairly quick. We got our table within 30 minutes. Service is nothing to write home about. Again, the average patron is too busy enjoying being young and living in Hollywood to care. Just go for the food...and atmosphere if you either a) 25 and under; b) delude yourself into thinking you're glamorous by association; or c) relish feeling even older and drabbier than you already are at your washed up, coming-around-the-corner-of-your-40's, self.

Anyway, He was sitting behind us. Shows like Entourage that bring reality television narratives back into traditional drama narratives by shooting all in real locations with a mixture of real people and make-believe people create an interesting blur to the actors as they go off set to the "real world" they also inhabit in their shows. So, seeing "E" here was like watching a stage version of Entourage. I half expected Vince, Turtle, and Drama to show up just around the bend.