{"id":3639,"date":"2009-05-01T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2009-05-01T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:56:50","slug":"first-impressions-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/first-impressions-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never made it to the Peabody&#8217;s rooftop party last night, which I&#8217;m assuming got moved indoors due to the rain.\u00a0 Started at the Saucer (Saucer visit number 39 for the month of April), where Woodchuck Pear Cider was the Fire Sale.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 Had a few of those, then wandered over to the Goose, where I discussed BBQ Fest with the team captain and watched the NBA finals and drank PBR.\u00a0 By then it was 9:30, and I wondered if the crowd was starting to leave the rooftop and hit the bars, so I walked back over to the Saucer (visit 40) for another Woodchuck Pear.\u00a0 Saucer was pretty boring though, so I hit Bardog for a beer, then decided to pop in next door at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightmemphis.com\">Flight<\/a>.\u00a0 Turned out to be a good decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do I look good enough to come in?&#8221; I asked the owner.\u00a0 I had a T-shirt and shorts and sandals on.\u00a0 He assured me that I was welcomed, and I took a seat at the bar.\u00a0 By that time it was past 10, so their late-night menu was in effect.<\/p>\n<p>On the late-night menu:\u00a0 A cheeseburger, crawfish dip, bacon and bleu cheese fries, a jerked chicken quesadilla, a barbecue pork pizza, a charcuterie (might have misspelled that) plate which is basically a sausage and cheese plate, and conch fritters.\u00a0 I had the crawfish dip and it was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>I talked with the people who run the place as I ate, and they told me about some of their liquor flights:\u00a0 They have scotch flights, tequila flights, whiskey flights (Tennessee vs. Kentucky vs. Canadian), vodka flights, gin flights, rum flights, and cordial flights.\u00a0 They have dessert flights too.<\/p>\n<p>A good first experience there.\u00a0 I want to go back sometime and try their dinner menu&#8230; their fresh fish flight sounds particularly tempting.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for tonight:\u00a0 I won&#8217;t be traipsing through the mud at Music Fest, but I do plan on getting Dirty.\u00a0 And maybe a little bit sweaty&#8230; Mexican sweat.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll be so thirsty that I may drink a Dozen beers.\u00a0 Those in the know understand what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never made it to the Peabody&#8217;s rooftop party last night, which I&#8217;m assuming got moved indoors due to the rain.\u00a0 Started at the Saucer (Saucer visit number 39 for the month of April), where Woodchuck Pear Cider was the Fire Sale.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 Had a few of those, then wandered over to the Goose, where I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/first-impressions-of-flight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First impressions of Flight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->