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Friday night, Carlos Suarez hosted “Spring Fling” at his restaurant Bobo- one of our favorite places in the West Village.  And, he brought in “The Godfather of Soul,” James Brown (the reenactor) to perform live for his guests.  More photos below….  More»

[Elise Overland, Hope Atherton, Kate Schelter, Aimee Mullins. Photos by DAVID X PRUTTING for PMc]

Last night, my favorite go-to West Village restaurant, Bobo, (owned by Carlos Suarez), was the setting of a dinner for some of the more fashion-forward New Yorkers in the city.  It was for Elise Overland and the threeASFOUR fashion company and was hosted by the Villency Emerging Fashion Program, which was founded by Eric Villency and Sabine Heller in 2007 to encourage and support up and coming talent which has included: Proenza Schouler, Derek Lam, Imitation of Christ, Ruffian, Sari Gueron and Katy Rodriguez.

[Inside Bobo]

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“After Bobo Executive Chef Jared Stafford-Hill was fired yesterday, he stormed back into the kitchen and poured Ajax in all of the sauces (obviously trashed immediately) and cut the wires to all the service computers before leaving. Good luck getting a job in this town again!” [via Eater]

Last summer at this time, I remember walking into the space in the West Village that is now Bobo and watching Carlos Suarez slaving away, himself making sure his new restaurant would be up to standard to the elistist New Yorkers that would come to dine there.  Though I haven’t been in awhile, I will always be a fan of the place and its Bourgeois Bohemian skeleton.  However, Carlos just can’t seem to catch a break with his chefs:

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When walking into the newly opened Bobo last night, it became clear to us that Carlos Suarez is the type of person that takes great care in paying attention to details….At least when it comes to design. We were completely impressed with the interior of charming Bobo, the cozy restaurant nestled away inside an old corner brownstone on W.10th. Unfortunately, that’s about the only thing we were blown away by….

“Good afternoon, Bobo residence”. This is how you are greeted when making a reservation, and for good reason. The place does feel like you are a guest of honor in a posh-bohemian, yet sophisticated private apartment. You enter through the lower level where the main bar and window-tables are before you walk up an old wooden staircase, painted black with a white lined trim, (set to look like an expensive carpet runner), where you emerge into the main dining room (pictured above). There is a smaller corner bar adjacent to this:

Where the bartender (a transplant from Aqua Vit) serves such standard cocktails as the “mai-tai” and the “perfect Manhattan” for $12 a pop (reasonable). Beyond this little cove there are some small wooden steps leading out to the “garden”, which is without question, the best part about the joint (and of course where Richie Rich held court last night).

They managed to keep the place full without feeling stuffy, which will be hard to do once winter comes and the garden closes. Along with the hip eclectic decor, the music was great (The Postal Service type shit was playing at the perfect volumed level), and the “right kind of people” were there. However, no amount of well-done ambiance could hide the fact that the food and service were sub-par. First of all, it took over an hour for our APPETIZERS to arrive! The Artichoke Barigoule was actually a pile of arugula with a dash of ricotta cheese and a fourth of an artichoke. The Truffled Elbow Pasta with Ham and Cheese looked like a dish you would feed a 4 year old, and was again, appropriately sized to one. Both the Steak Frites and Grilled Lamp Chop were average in taste, TINY in size. The deserts were simple and unspectacular. Another con, there is only one bathroom, that although clean and sleek, was OUT of toilet paper! We know they have been only officially open for a week, and though we’ve never actually met Carlos, from what we’ve heard (and seen last night) he seems to be a down-to-earth, go-getter that put his own sweat and blood into a passionate project. We hope they get these minor pretty big bugs figured out over the month, so that when we pop in for Round Two, a Richie Rich sighting won’t be the only highlight of our night.

UPDATE: Interview with Richie Rich

From Ice Princess, to Club Kid, to Fashion Mogul, Richie Rich has always been a superstar to us. Many of our friends find our mild obsession odd, but we don’t care. Last night, while Kate Hudson was hanging with Ron Burkle at Rose Bar, and Diddy was causing chaos at Goldbar, Richie Rich was giving us goosebumps at Bobo. When we were randomly seated across from the famous diva at dinner, we knew we were in for a treat, and it wasn’t going to be from any culinary cuisine. (Full review of the newly opened west village hot spot to follow).

For those of you who are unaware of who Richie Rich is (and it’s not the comic character), he’s a kid from California that, after training under Kristi Yamaguchi, joining the Ice Capades and touring the world, decided to move to New York and become one of the most fab of all the Club Kids, working at all of the city’s hottest clubs while simultaneously starting a career as a recording artist and unleashing various pop singles such as “Magic” and Collision.” Those theatrical talents came in hand when he started making his own clothing, which got picked up by Patricia Field. Thus, Heatherette was founded in 1994 (with Travis Rains) and the rest is history. He is still hanging out with the hottest Socialites and Hipsters, but now it’s because they all want to be part of his show (Tinsley Mortimer is a regular model for them).

[photo from Patrick McMullan]

But back then, Richie Rich was just a kid trying to find his place in life. The Clubkids were infamous for taking things to the EXTREME. The movie Party Monster is a good documentation of this. Based on the book by James St. James, the film showcases the wild life of the real life “party monsters”. The premeire party for the film was held at the infamous Plaid night club (pictured below) and included such guests as Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilmer Valderrama, Nicky Hilton, Kenny Kenny, and Chloe Sevigny (the old “It Girl” who has grown up a bit, staring on HBO’s Big Love and recently launching a fashion line of her own).

Here’s a video of the Clubkids that we dug up from the Jane Whitney show in the 90’s…(Richie Rich is in there).

Finally, we leave you with a little blurb of the interview that James St. James did for USAToday:

Question: What exactly were all of you trying to achieve in the heyday? Was the club kid phenomenon just a major bid for attention? And was there anything you WOULDN’T do?James St. James: Certainly there was this post-Warholian feel of celebrity for celebrity’s sake,a nd we deserved to be famous because we were fabulous. We did have an agenda, though. Drag was to be the norm. Drugs would be the utopian gateway. It all blew up in our faces, of course. But in the beginning we had an ideology.