Im Chris Russo wrote:
I'm not usually one to come to the deffense of celebs, but if the restaurant is in SoHo it could only be a few blocks away from John's apartment, also in SoHo. It seems pretty silly to take a car back and forth, in my opinion.
Exactly.

They were walking back to his apartment, which is about 4 blocks away from the restaurant they were eating at. I'm not sure how walking makes something staged but we're all free to think and believe whatever we want.

There is no arguing with some of the crazies though.