.When OpenTable is a co-host of your gathering, you understand the food is visiting be better than great. Such held true last evening when Bach Mai invited visitors to a dinner at Le B, the West Village-based concept coming from chef as well as restaurateur Angie Mar (of The Beatrice Lodge and, very most just recently, Les Trois Chevaux). At around 6 PM, guests like Misty Copeland (a longtime patron of Mai), actor Bailey Bass, and Trend's very own Leah Faye-Cooper and also Jose Criales-Unzueta collected in the gorgeously designated dining room, whose glossy curtains had been drawn educated shut for incorporated dramatization. The majority of everybody had been attentively suited up through Mai, so suffice it to point out, the room was actually full of plush, duchess satin, as well as a handful of bombing plane jackets (a Pachelbel Mai trademark). After a 1-hour drink, during which Mar's delivered wanton deep-fried chick legs in crystal bowls, everyone took their seat for a three-course dinner. But first, appreciated comments coming from OpenTable's chief executive officer Debby Soo. "If you like this dress, it is actually too bad due to the fact that I purchased the final one at Neiman Marcus!" she teased.Next, Mar took the floor. "I enjoy to become neighbored by stunning things, lovely art pieces, and also surprisingly creative people, so when I complied with Pachelbel, I promptly felt like, his layouts are for me, as well as I'm gon na make him an aspect of my planet, and so I performed ... alright, I have to go back to the cooking area-- the food does certainly not prepare on its own!" After main courses of Le B's signatures like salmon filet or roast duckling with cherries flambu00e9, Mai then cheered accept and also thank his guests. "A lot of of you have actually existed because the very first selection it's been actually just a little bit of over pair of as well as a fifty percent years-- the longest and also quickest, 2 and also a fifty percent years of my lifestyle!-- because the very first launch, as well as I really desired to carry everybody together for a gorgeous night.".