Stopped in last week to talk to Nacional 27 vet Randy Zweiban and check in on his new restaurant project Province (161 N. Jefferson - debuts the week of October 13). We sat down for a podcast I hope to debut in the next couple of weeks where we talk about his days as a diamond setter and drummer (he loves Charlie Watts and John Bonham). In a Food Network driven world where young gun chefs crave immediate success, Zweiban has been a serial monogamist, spending 7 years in Florida with Norman VanAken and and a decade with Lettuce Entertain You. It’s refreshing to see a deliberate and very talented guy at work. Anyways I found the mostly finished dining room which features hanging petrified manzanita trees, hot pink accent walls, a glass winecellar like curtain wall, cork and reclaimed wood tables, and breathtaking food photos from Zweiban’s longtime girlfriend Laurie Proffitt to be one of the cooler looking rooms around.