Our pal Carlos saw someone who looked like Woody Allen in front of Esperpento at 22nd and Valencia. Turns out it was him, along with his wife Soon-Yi Previn, confirmed by the NY Post (whose logo font kinda looks like ours… coincidence?).
I smell field research for Vicky Cristina Barcelona II: Vicky Cristina San Francisco.
Update: Woah, Esperpento owner Carlos Muela, who’s apparently a good sport about my gratuitous “overpriced small plates” jab, just sent us this:
If there’s any good time to throw the devil horns, it’s when you’re taking a picture with Woody Allen.
Update 2: According to tablehopper, he’s in town filming a new, untitled movie with Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, and Louis C.K!
Countdown till a “Cate Blanchett having a beer at Zeitgeist” post.
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This is the only celebrity sighting I’m truly jealous of.
Woody is a fucking creep
Have you seen “Whatever Works”? He knows he’s a creep. No need to remind him.
and you, just a loser.
He is filming a movie here for the third time. Take the money and run was his first.
I’m personally really excited for Vicky Cristina Barcelona II: Vicky Cristina San Francisco.
Lillian: I am cracking up!
Also, great photo.
Looks like a Woody Allen ransom photo. My guess is they’re demanding $2 million in the style of the principal from Breakfast Club.
You’d think Woody could do better than one of SF’s worst, most inexplicably popular restaurants.
Picaro is WAY WAY better.
Same ownership, and IMO, same terrible food.
I’ll end my Esperpento/Picaro invective here, but as you can tell, I have strong feelings about it. When I’m sitting at the Latin watching people pour in to Esperpento, I actually feel guilty not intervening to stop them.
you sir have bad taste.
the paella is fucking killer.
One of America’s best directors visits your neighborhood and all you care to do is turn your nose up at where he choose to eat? I bet you’re a blast to hang out with.
+1
Weird, I’ve only been there once, but whatever I had was pretty delicious. Can’t remember what it was, but it was yummy.
I still miss Timos.
Esperpento is OK for lunch but it is hardly special.
esperpento is one of the more reasonably priced tapas places in the city
Well sure, it’s cheap to make bad food in bulk! Someone needs to teach them basic cooking skills. I remember wondering, “don’t they know about salt?”
Ha! Part of the reason I thought it might not be him was because I assumed Woody Allen would be eating exclusively at rich people restaurants and not a tapas place across from the Latin American Club. Though I guess he’s been doing that too: http://www.tablehopper.com/starlet/woody-allen-on-the-town/
Esperpento and Rose Pistola? Was the wait at Olive Garden too long?
woody allen knows he’s a creep and esperpento knows it serves overpriced small plates (which would be less offensive if the food there were as good as it once was, but the quality has declined hugely over the years). yet both woody allen and the owner of esperpento have more money than i do so what’s the lesson to learn here?
That money isn’t everything?
When you’re Woody Fucking Allen, you don’t give a fuck where you eat. When you’re on location, you go where your assistant tells you to go — that’s what he pays him/her for. You guys talk like Woody picked this place himself, and wanted to pose for a photograph with the owner.
Well, maybe when *you’re* Woody Allen. When *I’m* Woody Allen, I care a lot where I eat, and hire/retain my assistant, in part, based on his/her choices in this regard.
I also want my assistant to say, “Mr. Allen would like to be left alone. No pictures, please. Esp. pictures throwing the \m/.”
Yes, let’s all imagine a hypothetical world where we are Woody Allen and have a big argument about what we would and wouldn’t do.
If *I* were Woody Allen, I would have changed the ending to Annie Hall so that he gets the girl. Then they have a lobster dinner at the wedding. Now there’s a movie the whole family can enjoy.
Big argument? Huh, I guess I got the light-hearted switch miscalibrated on my internets. Best power it down for a spell.
If I were Woody Allen I would have better taste in food AND women.
If *I* were Woody Allen, I wouldn’t start fucking my stepdaughter. I’d also eat at Esperpento, it’s great.
If I were Woody Allen I would have not recreated Manhattan’s fictional romance of a 17 year-old in real life. Imagining further, if I had a chance (Jack Walker me not Woody me) I would date the heck out of Mariel Hemingway since we are the same age. And since I’ve gone full on Walter Mitty, I’d date Brooke Shields in all her glorious craziness as well.
I can’t tell if this thread is an early, abandoned draft of Deconstructing Harry or Being John Malkovich.
Well, clearly, you are not Woody Allen, since he did eat at that place, and he did have his picture taken with owner.
Get a grip, dude.
He looks soooo stoked in that picture….get some sun woody,u look half dead.
He’s just a guy with a sex drive. All these “creep” comments are anti-male and sexist. He was in no way related to or the guardian of his current wife. You are the creeps.
You’re a creep.
What is this, reddit?
+1
Jack Black’s wife used to work there.
Woody’s expression matches exactly how I feel whenever I eat there.
GREAT TO READ & SEE THIS ABOUT WOODY ALLEN ~~ ESPECIALLY AFTER HIS VERY ENJOYABLE ‘ R O M E ‘ ,~~~~ & PARIS ….& LONDON ~ FILMS.
~~~~ ALTHOUGH HE HAS DONE NY MOSTLY HIS ENTIRE CAREER ~ WITH BROOKLYN SHOWING UP A BIT ( HIS BIRTHPLACE , OF COURSE ~~ }
I HOPE SOMEDAY : “” B R O O K L Y N ~~ …………. “” WILL BE THE MAJOR LOCALITY OF HIS FILM.
W T F ~~~ IS W R O N G. WITH Y O U R ~~~~~ K
E Y B O A R D
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These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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looks like yours… coincidence
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