If we'd come by Michael's on Monday we could have chatted with Chris Rock who was lunching with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Instead, we had to settle for The Real Housewives of New York City.
Lunch: Desperate Housewives and Introducing Peggy Siegal, Girl Reporter (FBNY)

With most of the media mavens and boldfaced names we know planning an early escape from town this week, we weren't expecting big doings at Michael's but there were still some interesting goings on in the dining room at lunch.
Lunch: The Low-Cal Edition (FBNY)

Forget the lazy days of summer. The joint was jumping at Michael's today as the lunchtime crowd of television types, fashionistas, media mavens and bold-faced names table-hopped like mad. There was plenty of air kissing and back slapping all around as the gang, turned out in their summer finery, made their way to and from the dining room.
Lunch: Katie Couric, Andre Leon Talley & Melania Trump (FBNY)

Got a script to pitch? The posse of producers at Michael's today generated enough heat to greenlight a slew of hits. Today, though, the big topic of conversation among these movers and shakers was what to do with their vacant west coast homes while they toiled in Gotham.
Lunch: Jean Doumanian & A Posse of Producers (FBNY)

It was a tasty tossed summer salad of movers, shakers — and football players at Michael's today. Now that the power set has to cram in five days of plotting into a truncated work week — Why miss out on a Friday afternoon in the Hamptons if you don't have to? — the dining room was buzzing.
Lunch: Football, Fashionistas & Laila Ali (FBNY)

If you felt the tremors in midtown around lunchtime, you weren't imagining things. There were so many honchos and heavy weights at Michael's today it's amazing 55th Street didn't buckle under its own weight.
Lunch: Alec Baldwin & His 'Role' Models (FBNY)

Bill Clinton isn't the only one who is getting a little testy about the endlessly long and increasingly tabloid-y battle for the democratic nomination. At today's lunch, politics were on the menu as supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took sides over their Cobb Salads. Our unofficial dining room poll finds Obama holding a commanding lead.
Lunch: Hillary—Obama Smackdown! (FBNY)

When we arrived at Michael's, at first blush the squadron of suits and celeb-free dining room (Okay, Kathie Lee was there) told us it would be a somewhat staid lunch today. Then things got interesting when David Gergen walked into the dining room.
Lunch: David Gergen to Dems — Cut Out 'The Nastiness' — Or Else! (FBNY)

We were hoping for a star-studded dining room since it's Upfront week when the networks trot out their overpaid and underfed stars to shill for their supper, but we had to settle for a smattering of television titans who toil behind the scenes.
Lunch: Dick Wolf & The Usual Suspects (FBNY)

While Hillary and Obama enter the final stages of battle — at least that was the consensus of today's crowd — there was some serious political posturing going on today at Michael's.
Lunch: Joan Rivers & Some Serious Stealth Campaigning (FBNY)