A Gawker correspondent reports from Mario Batali's still-trendy pizza joint Otto in the Village,

After waiting an hour for a table at Otto last night, we were finally seated near the entrance. It gave us a bird's-eye view of author Salman Rushdie and his wife, Padma Lakshmi (clad in a short black fur coat, long black skirt with gold-sequin detailing and a pair of some sort of green snakeskin-like heels). Their literary-looking entourage had to wait along with everybody else. Lakshmi and half the entourage left the restaurant soon after they were seated.

Booker Prize winners: watching that damn reservations flipboard like the rest of us.