You know it's coming... the sun has come out, the weather is getting warmer, I have gotten something that could be considered a tan... yes it's time for BeerFest season! I love the beer festival. Everyone is happy, the beer is always good, and the weather is even better. I was excited to get my sort of regular email from Hoppy Brewing notifying me of several upcoming brewfests. It prompted a bit of research on my end, but in the name of service to my people, here we go. (BTW - Book out all Saturdays in May. You're going to be busy!)
Boonville Brewer's Festival: May 2nd, in Boonville (North Coast). 1pm-5pm, $40. You can camp too, and that's only $12/per person. It's also a pirate theme, which in my opinion, makes this festival 40 thousand times cooler. I can tell my one joke over and over again! (Hey Pirate--did you know you have a steering wheel down your pants?)
Raley Field Brewfest: May 9th, at Raley Field (duh). 1pm-4:30pm. $25 for 10 5oz tastings. There are VIP tickets too, but I don't remember how much they are or what the benefit of that was. (I'm not so up on the VIP)
West Coast Brewfest: May 16th, at Miller Park in Sacramento. 1pm-5pm. $25 and I don't think they limit tastings. You can buy tickets online or at Brew It Up, Hoppy, River City or the Shack.
I'm sure they'll be more, so let me know and I'll keep updating! If you're an international traveler click here and will give you lots more fests across the world (make sure to keep your passport in a plastic bag).
And if anyone wants to camp for the Boonville Fest, let me know... I'm up for it!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
More Lunch Specials
I was walking to the Safeway shopping center today and walked past one of my favorite fast-Mexican food restaurants in Midtown, Chita's. They have lunch specials for $2.99 Mon-Fri!! It's too far for me to trek over for lunch during work, but I know someone out there can take advantage of it. I don't remember what was on the specials, but since it's Chita's I don't doubt that the food is both outstanding and plentiful.
DIY Meals
Like most people, I'm seriously watching my budget lately. Unfortunately for you, this means few new posts. My budget is more the $2 beers at Round Corner (I'll drink Sierra when I'm feeling flush) than $10 martinis. Anyway, lucky for me I love to cook (this is probably more lucky for my friends than me, but it works out). I'm obsessed with cookbooks and recipes and am always trying to find new places for interesting recipes. I get tired of the same old stuff all the time, and I've found that not eating meat makes the search even harder. I came across a great blog the other day with tons of cool recipes--and it's not a vegetarian blog--so I thought I would share www.bitchincamero.com. It also has a super cool name, which helps.
This is no way means that you can stop reading our blog, by the way. If you cook the Thai soup with fried egg for breakfast can you tell me how it turns out?
This is no way means that you can stop reading our blog, by the way. If you cook the Thai soup with fried egg for breakfast can you tell me how it turns out?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Happy Hour Update
With new places opening and new happy hours popping up, it was time to update the Master Happy Hour List. Enjoy:
http://sachappyhour.blogspot.com/2007/10/cheers.html
And remember, if you have recommendations, corrections or any other comments, please post them so we can keep the list as complete and current as possible. Cheers!
http://sachappyhour.blogspot.com/2007/10/cheers.html
And remember, if you have recommendations, corrections or any other comments, please post them so we can keep the list as complete and current as possible. Cheers!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
$5.99 Lunch
The Bali Wine Bar and Grill at 2416 18th Street in Sacramento is offering $5.99 lunch specials. The deal includes salad bar, Balinese rice and your choice of:
- Chicken Satay
- Beef Satay
- Pork Choop: grilled & marinaded in Indonesian Soya sauce
- BBQ Chicken
- Mi Sayuran: stir fried egg noodles, greens and tofu
Lunch is served from 11:00 to 2:00 pm, Monday through Saturday
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
It's the Economy
There is a silver lining... apparently to drum up business in Sac, local restaurants and bars are throwing lots of deals our way. Here are a couple of highlights (please comment and add more--I'm sure I missed some!)
From Hoppy (please excuse the cut and paste):
* On weekends from 10:00am to 3:30pm, we feature a tasty
Brunch Menu with $5.00 top-shelf Bloody Mary's.
* On Sundays we feature the BEST deal in town, where we
include a bottle of Hoppy brew to go with every
Brunch/Lunch/Dinner entree purchased.
* On Sundays & Mondays we feature $0.99 children's meals
with an adult meal purchase.
* On Mondays we feature $3.50 pints & $12.00 pitchers all day
from when we open until we close.
* On Tuesdays we feature $2.00 tacos for dinner starting, and
at 10:00pm a quick session of trivia.
* On Wednesdays we have half price appetizers from 9:00-10:00pm,
and a South Park special with $3.50 pints & $12.00 pitchers
starting at 9:30pm with South Park at 10:00pm.
* On Saturdays we feature $2.50 pints when you wear your Beer
Ambassador t-shirt.
Esquire Grill and Spataro: $20 3 Course Meal. Call the restaurants for resis and use the code "IEat" to score the deal. (both menus look fabulous)
Masullo Pizza: Wine for 1/2 off per bottle (this is apparently only on Mon & Tues and only through March, can somebody who knows better add some details please?)
See--there's some benefit to the financial meltdown... right?
From Hoppy (please excuse the cut and paste):
* On weekends from 10:00am to 3:30pm, we feature a tasty
Brunch Menu with $5.00 top-shelf Bloody Mary's.
* On Sundays we feature the BEST deal in town, where we
include a bottle of Hoppy brew to go with every
Brunch/Lunch/Dinner entree purchased.
* On Sundays & Mondays we feature $0.99 children's meals
with an adult meal purchase.
* On Mondays we feature $3.50 pints & $12.00 pitchers all day
from when we open until we close.
* On Tuesdays we feature $2.00 tacos for dinner starting, and
at 10:00pm a quick session of trivia.
* On Wednesdays we have half price appetizers from 9:00-10:00pm,
and a South Park special with $3.50 pints & $12.00 pitchers
starting at 9:30pm with South Park at 10:00pm.
* On Saturdays we feature $2.50 pints when you wear your Beer
Ambassador t-shirt.
Esquire Grill and Spataro: $20 3 Course Meal. Call the restaurants for resis and use the code "IEat" to score the deal. (both menus look fabulous)
Masullo Pizza: Wine for 1/2 off per bottle (this is apparently only on Mon & Tues and only through March, can somebody who knows better add some details please?)
See--there's some benefit to the financial meltdown... right?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Wow?
According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary "wow" can mean either a "striking success," or "a distortion in reproduced sound consisting of a slow rise and fall of pitch caused by speed variation in the reproducing system." I'm not sure which definition L Wine Lounge is using for their WOW (Wine On Wednesdays -- get it?). Katy and I were searching for wine the other night (seriously, is that hard to find?) and when we found 58 Degrees packed to the gills, we decided to try something new. Here's the thing--we really tried to go outside of our comfort zone. We tried something new. I think we should get points for that. Unfortunately for us, L was WOW "used to express strong feeling". This feeling was not pleasure.
We got there at about 10 to 6, and decided to wait for WOW (it starts at 6pm). Our server was very nice and brought us water and glasses. WOW works like this--every Wednesday L features a different winery, and you get 5 tastes and free snacks for $10. Brilliant! I don't remember what winery was featured last Wednesday (Siduri?) but they had a viogner, a couple of pinots (one of which was fabulous) and a syrah. The wine was good. It was fun. They also had a fabulous triple cream brie and salami to nosh on. It was kind of fun getting up, circling floor and getting our own wine. And we were having a good time until I was sipping wine and noticed something sharp in my mouth. That sharpness was a shard of glass, clearly from a wine glass. In all fairness, this was not L's fault. I'm not sure how it got in there. I used the same glass the entire time, and the wine-pourer (is that a word?) opened a new bottle for me for the last taste. I don't know what happened. The hostess saw that there was something going on and came over to see what the commotion was. She very kindly got me a new glass. I couldn't fault them for it--but the entire time I was wondering where our server was. (For more glass in the glasses experiences you can read my friend Dave B's review of Nishiki here)
We tried our last wine and decided that we'd stay for another glass of wine. Sure. the shard of glass was weird, but not their fault. We sat for a few minutes to wait for our server to bring us menus (she had to come back to fill our water glasses for the 15th time, we figured.) Katy used the restroom (too much water). I tried making the "please come over here" face at our server. She ignored me. I tried making the "I'm really bored and need some wine face." She was too busy wiping out clean wine glasses. Seriously. Katy returned. We sat some more. By this point we've decided that we just want our check. Still no server. Our water glasses were empty for the first time that evening. Meanwhile, the crowd becomes more and more pretentious yuppy (not our scene) and we REALLY want to leave. I'm guessing we sat there for a good 15-20 minutes until I finally saw some guy who seemed like he was the manager and I chased him down to get our check. He runs our cards, leaves the tab and says, "That was 2 WOWS!" Um, ok. Here's a tip--just because you call it "WOW" doesn't mean that it's the truth. Katy and I left saying "Wow--that was really crappy service." And our server, probably said, "Wow, they didn't leave much of a tip." (I left nothing I was so pissed. Katy left a dollar. We're not sure what was more insulting.)
You can make excuses for shards of glass in your wine, but there is no excuse for bad service! We went to 58 Degrees just to get the bad taste out of our mouth.
We got there at about 10 to 6, and decided to wait for WOW (it starts at 6pm). Our server was very nice and brought us water and glasses. WOW works like this--every Wednesday L features a different winery, and you get 5 tastes and free snacks for $10. Brilliant! I don't remember what winery was featured last Wednesday (Siduri?) but they had a viogner, a couple of pinots (one of which was fabulous) and a syrah. The wine was good. It was fun. They also had a fabulous triple cream brie and salami to nosh on. It was kind of fun getting up, circling floor and getting our own wine. And we were having a good time until I was sipping wine and noticed something sharp in my mouth. That sharpness was a shard of glass, clearly from a wine glass. In all fairness, this was not L's fault. I'm not sure how it got in there. I used the same glass the entire time, and the wine-pourer (is that a word?) opened a new bottle for me for the last taste. I don't know what happened. The hostess saw that there was something going on and came over to see what the commotion was. She very kindly got me a new glass. I couldn't fault them for it--but the entire time I was wondering where our server was. (For more glass in the glasses experiences you can read my friend Dave B's review of Nishiki here)
We tried our last wine and decided that we'd stay for another glass of wine. Sure. the shard of glass was weird, but not their fault. We sat for a few minutes to wait for our server to bring us menus (she had to come back to fill our water glasses for the 15th time, we figured.) Katy used the restroom (too much water). I tried making the "please come over here" face at our server. She ignored me. I tried making the "I'm really bored and need some wine face." She was too busy wiping out clean wine glasses. Seriously. Katy returned. We sat some more. By this point we've decided that we just want our check. Still no server. Our water glasses were empty for the first time that evening. Meanwhile, the crowd becomes more and more pretentious yuppy (not our scene) and we REALLY want to leave. I'm guessing we sat there for a good 15-20 minutes until I finally saw some guy who seemed like he was the manager and I chased him down to get our check. He runs our cards, leaves the tab and says, "That was 2 WOWS!" Um, ok. Here's a tip--just because you call it "WOW" doesn't mean that it's the truth. Katy and I left saying "Wow--that was really crappy service." And our server, probably said, "Wow, they didn't leave much of a tip." (I left nothing I was so pissed. Katy left a dollar. We're not sure what was more insulting.)
You can make excuses for shards of glass in your wine, but there is no excuse for bad service! We went to 58 Degrees just to get the bad taste out of our mouth.
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