Alert to those of you who collect beer glasses: Stella Artois is the featured beer for “buy the beer, keep the glass” night at the Flying Saucer next Wednesday. While most of the glasses are nothing special – just a company logo on a pint glass – the Stella ones are really nice. Here’s a pic of my set of four, bought at previous keep-the-glass nights:
Other Saucer news: If you’re looking for something to do tonight, Snozberry is playing there at 9:30. Also, the Saucer is putting together a “brews cruise,” a 5-day cruise of the West Caribbean with beer tastings and seminars, with brewmasters from several well-known brewerys. It’s May 3-8 I believe. If interested go by the Saucer to get more details.
Second Street Shoppers, the convenience store on Second in the old Carabella location, now has a deli, with a menu of about 15 sandwiches. Sounds like people who work Downtown have a new option for lunch. I’ll have to give this a try sometime in the next week.
After a few beers at the Saucer last night I got hungry, and remembered that I had a bunch of gift cards from the Majestic Grille that needed to be cashed in. So I walked over to the Majestic and took a look at their steak menu. At the suggestion of Air Traffic Mike and owner Deni, I got the filet with garlic mashed potatoes and a side order of garlic shrimp – outstanding. The Majestic’s steaks are as good as you’ll find anywhere Downtown.
Also, the strawberry basil martini is as good a martini as you’ll find Downtown. Thanks to Air Traffic Mike for buying round after round last night.
Non-Downtown news: I heard last night that The Cove (formerly The Beer Joint) on Broad Avenue has been open for a few weeks now. “It feels like it’s been open forever and ever,” said a friend who was in there earlier in the week. Their doors open at 5. Here’s a post Midtown Ryan made about the place last month. This may be worth a field trip outside of Downtown.
I’m apparently “the guy everyone sees Downtown.” I ran into some girls at Hoop’s Bar last night who told me, “We’ve actually started a game. Every time we see you, we have to take a shot.” They found my blog recently but told me, “Before we knew you, you were known as ‘The Dude.’ So we have ‘The Dude Shot.’ It’s whatever we feel like at the moment. We can’t be specific because sometimes it happens at 9 AM, sometimes at 2 AM.”
Looks like I was wrong about a new club opening in the place of Ground Zero next to the Westin… people have told me the Ground Zero sign is up and that project is back on track. I guess that means the other club I was told about will be going into the space that was originally going to be the King Biscuit.
Silver’s obituary appeared in the paper today. I’ll do Sunday brunch at McGuinness and the Saucer tomorrow, but will have to drink non-alcoholic beverages so I can drive out east to his memorial service at 4.
Shout-out to my two friends with whom I’ve spoken about getting their artwork in my apartment: I’m ready to roll. Another paycheck hit the bank yesterday and I have money to spend, so let’s talk about it soon. I like the idea of displaying only artwork by artists I know. I already have a couple of small pieces from a third artist.
Speaking of my apartment… someone slid a $30 gift certificate to Itta Bena under every door in my building! Nice!
I need some new clothes. I’m actually considering walking down to Lansky’s and buying one or two of their nice-looking but ridiculously expensive shirts.
That’s enough for now. I need to plug in my digital camera and see if there’s anything on there that’s blogworthy. If so there may be another post later today.