Black Truffle and Glenn Miller

This is part two of the account of “Franzi, the culinary crossdresser” on her mid-March 2025 day out-and-about. To go with the theme and setting of the cultural event of the evening, I opted for my glittery golden long dress with black pumps.

Portrait of the evening

True to her calling, Franzi's first stop of the evening was at a restaurant. It happened to be the same Italian restaurant on Opernplatz as in my recent posting "Johann Strauß and Black Truffle,“ and I started out with a refreshing „Aperol Spritz“. And Black Truffle it was again for dinner, because it was so extremely tasty the last time.

When I asked the waiter for a wine recommendation to go with it, he said „Madam, the last time you had this dish, I recommended a Soave Classico to you. Did you enjoy that?“ I LOVE IT when people remember me and are obviously happy to see me again. „Re-recognition“ at its best! I would go there again, simply for that.

The cultural event at “Alte Oper” Frankfurt that night was “The best of the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra,” directed by Wil Salden. Apparently, they have been on tour for decades and regularly come to Frankfurt. As I had said before, when you only get to go out en femme on rare occasion, you cannot be picky. I am not saying that the cultural offering of the village of Frankfurt is bad. But if I were to live or go out in London or NYC, it would be different. Come to think of it, given Franzi’s second interest “travelling en femme” … 😉

I had talked about „Alte Oper“ Frankfurt, one of the top venues for concerts and musicals, many times before on this blog. It is located centrally in Frankfurt’s city at the end of „Fressgass.“ What I didn’t tell you yet, is the fact that one of the subway lines has a stop right underneath and – even better – it leads straight to „Ostend“ (East End). Its terminal station is where one of our (my, my wife’s, and Franzi‘s) favorite wine bars is located.

As the area around the wine bar is a little rough, it is prudent as a girl being out alone to hire a ride home. And that is what I did that night. Happy and tired.