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This subterranean enclave serves cappuccino, gazpacho and flan to black-clad clientele. The tres chic and bohemian alike ponder over Nabakov until one in the morning, long after Lamont has gone to bed. The quieter hours during the day are more conducive to studying, perhaps on the outside patio, but conversation overheard at Pamplona is always temptingly distracting...
Dessert proved imperative, in spite of embarrassingly inflated waistbands and popped buttons. Amidst the traditional Key Lime Pie and Pecan Pie came the pernicious, though probably delicious, gesture towards chic--Praline Parfait and Flan. The Pecan Pie is served (naturally) piping hot, graced by silky, homemade vanilla ice cream so light it was almost ice milk. It was perfect. The Key Lime Pie was typically tart and sweet, graham crackery crust with sour flecks of lime rind...
...entrees--but the overhead must be high to support all those mushrooms with goat cheese and seared tuna. Best of all, their menu changes seasonally, and Magnolias frequently offers theme menus that stick more to their Southern roots. For the open-minded neophytes among us, let there be flan and microbrews amongst Magnolias fried green tomatoes...
...Poor Tita and Pedro--so in love, but kept apart by a cruel tradition which stipulates that Tita must remain single and serve her family. A solution seems to present itself when Pedro marries her older sister and Tita serves as their cook--the sexual tension is thicker than flan and a lot hotter...
...flashback, Polite is unconvincing; rather than natural speech rhythms he produces a kind of forced grunt. He also seems uncomfortable with the overtly homosexual content of that and other scenes, further impairing the credibility of the character. As a result, we are far more engaged by the relationship between Flan and Ouisa than the one between Ouisa and Paul, which should be the play's real center...