Correction: In my lunchtime post I listed the Silly Goose party as tonight. It’s actually tomorrow. One piece of other Goose news – they have acquired a Ms. Pac-Man machine.
Soup Sunday has been announced for February 19 at the FedExForum. This is an event that runs from 11 AM to 2 PM and over 70 of the best restaurants in town participate. Your ticket entitles you to walk around the FedExForum’s concourse, stop at the restaurants’ booths, and enjoy unlimited samplings of their soups (and in some cases other items). You also get unlimited soft drinks. More info here, including VIP ticket options and how to become a volunteer for the event. Ticket proceeds benefit Youth Villages.
Time for my annual advice on this event: If you plan to attend, get there early. Be in line at the front door at 10:55. By 11:30 the lines get super long, and by 12:30 the most popular restaurants start to run out of soup. They give you a container that holds 4 soups, which reduces time standing in line. I’ve seen one person modify said container to hold as many as 9 soups at once. (Can you guess who?)
The third annual River City Brewers Festival will take place Saturday, March 31 in Handy Park on Beale Street. As was the case the past two years, there will be afternoon (12-4) and evening (6-10) sessions. Tickets, which are not yet on sale, will be $30/session and will benefit the Ronald McDonald House. If you want to volunteer at the festival, you can sign up here. If your brewery wants to offer samples at the fest, details can be found here. The festival is still seeking partnerships if you want to get involved. “Like” the festival’s Facebook page to keep up with news and updates. When the ticket link becomes active, I’ll post it. They did a very good job with this last year, and if the weather would just cooperate for once this could become a huge beer fest.
Speaking of beer: The Flying Saucer is giving away another New Belgium Fat Tire bike.
From January 24 to February 21, every time you buy a New Belgium Fat Tire you’ll be entered into a drawing for the bike. (Be sure to tell your server or bartender you want an entry form.) Perhaps the best days to enter the drawing will be Tuesdays, when Fat Tire pints will be on Fire Sale for $3 all day long.
Foursquare has announced that they are adding menus to their platform. Starting today, you’ll be able to click though to menus of restaurants that have made their menus available on the service. You can even see prices. So if you get the drunk munchies and want to know where to find a burrito under $5 near your current location, now you’ll know.
Speaking of location-based apps, here’s a really cool one: Find My Car Smart app, which uses the iPhone 4S’s Bluetooth 4.0 capability to mark where you parked your car. That way, when you come out of the bar hours later and have amnesia for where you parked, your phone will remind you, keeping you from mistakenly filing a stolen car report with the police. It’s in the App Store for 99 cents.
I don’t need no stinkin’ app, though, because I do Downtown properly – I WALK to the bars! And right now, it’s time to walk to the Saucer for a happy hour Dos Equis Lager. May hit Blind Bear later.