"We may not have any arch-foes - currently - but we have been spending a lot of the last several months hunting down just about all the big evils we could find to try and head off whoever's bent on turning my nephew evil." She had mentioned a little about that the previous night after their brief scuffle in which she'd revealed herself to be a witch, so she felt fairly comfortable mentioning that now.
"Doing the right thing is always a big deal. And it's good that you get a chance to give back like this." She felt the twinge of pain from him when he mentioned his parents, and inwardly made a mental note to ask him about that some other time, though instinct had Phoebe reaching out to lay a hand lightly on the arm closest to her. "I'm fairly confident that your parents would be proud of you, Bruce." Her voice and eyes were completely sincere.
After they were seated, she caught his request to the hostess and smiled a little, then studied the menu itself. "Is there anything you recommend? Or should we just...pick something at random?"