Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz

My wife and I were planning to celebrate my fiftieth birthday with a big party, inviting all of our friends. But this party never happened; my father died a few months before my 50th birthday, so we were in no mood for a party. We decided, then, not to spend that day in São Paulo and went to New York. And decided to commemorate it by dining and dancing at the Rainbow Room. I remember the Rainbow Room as a beautiful space, located on the 65th floor of one of the  Rockefeller Center buildings. The view of the city, from its many windows, was really something. I was told that for many years it was the highest restaurant in the United States. A few years after our dinner it was closed. But in 2012 it was declared a New York City landmark, and this led to its reopening in 2014. I have not returned there, but maybe I will be able to do it one of these days.  I do not remember what we ate there, I only remember that both my wife and I found the food excellent. But we will n...