Sunday, June 05, 2005
CABO'S-DINE AND DASH 6-5-05
friday, 5-20-05, 6pm. stroll into cabo's with the sizzlin miss amy. as usual, mjm and lady j are already seated. can't figure out what has made him so prompt. retirement and being on time is his life? lady j and now he has a life? they are in a booth against the mid-south wall. cabo's has sure grown up. when it first opened, i don't think it had a mid-south wall. as i recall, the door was the south wall. it had about six seats. no room for a booth, in a place that was the size of a dilbert cubicle. moved into the old peanut barrel. expanded that space. moved the smoky bar into a defunct smoothie parlor. vast improvements all around. cabo's was a 2-14-97 stop on the giant bag's farewell tour. something for everyone would be the best way to describe the menu and the customers. fries and salsa are always worth a stop. the wait staff are quick and cheerful. some have been at cabo's forever. one of our favorites has gone into the permanent make-up business at a salon on thomasville road. her name is amy--she has gotta be good.
no time to dally. kicking and screaming starts at 7:20. well not quite. there will be ads, movie trivia, coming attractions, a coke movie, a cell phone movie and a final admonition to enjoy the show. still, like to arrive on time, get a good seat and complain that the movie never starts on time. stiff drinks for the folks across the table. soft drink for blog-boy. freshly brewed, but weak, decaf for sizzlin-sweet. chips and salsa to snack on while the cook prepares dinner for four. red snapper, a lite meal of beef and plants, shrimp with angel hair pasta and a #5 vegetarian mexican platter. i did not fib about something for everyone. the snapper and the #5 get the best marks from this evenings panel of judges. miss amy prefers the shrimp alfredo when it is on the special board. lady j was too much a lady to say much about her lite meal. dining tip of the day---if you have a choice of lite or heavy, go heavy. you can always eat lite and if the food is good, you can share with your tablemates or take it home. if you order lite and you are hungry, you look goofy if you order a second meal or start swiping other folks food when the conversation heats up. following a diet in a restaurant has a big cost benefit to the restaurateur but none to the dieter. unless you can place an economic price on having a srong will in the face of food that demands to be devoured.
the 7:20 moving picture show starts about ten minutes before i would normally be saying "goodnight sweet princess". the kids on the soccer team were well worth the entry fee. they almost made me forget the pre-feature crapola. dinner and a movie and we beat our dawn curfew with minutes to spare......
no time to dally. kicking and screaming starts at 7:20. well not quite. there will be ads, movie trivia, coming attractions, a coke movie, a cell phone movie and a final admonition to enjoy the show. still, like to arrive on time, get a good seat and complain that the movie never starts on time. stiff drinks for the folks across the table. soft drink for blog-boy. freshly brewed, but weak, decaf for sizzlin-sweet. chips and salsa to snack on while the cook prepares dinner for four. red snapper, a lite meal of beef and plants, shrimp with angel hair pasta and a #5 vegetarian mexican platter. i did not fib about something for everyone. the snapper and the #5 get the best marks from this evenings panel of judges. miss amy prefers the shrimp alfredo when it is on the special board. lady j was too much a lady to say much about her lite meal. dining tip of the day---if you have a choice of lite or heavy, go heavy. you can always eat lite and if the food is good, you can share with your tablemates or take it home. if you order lite and you are hungry, you look goofy if you order a second meal or start swiping other folks food when the conversation heats up. following a diet in a restaurant has a big cost benefit to the restaurateur but none to the dieter. unless you can place an economic price on having a srong will in the face of food that demands to be devoured.
the 7:20 moving picture show starts about ten minutes before i would normally be saying "goodnight sweet princess". the kids on the soccer team were well worth the entry fee. they almost made me forget the pre-feature crapola. dinner and a movie and we beat our dawn curfew with minutes to spare......
Thursday, June 02, 2005
GOOD PIE-NO LIE--FLOPPY GO-BYE BYE 6-2-05
friday, 5-20-05, 11:30. return to Decent Pizza with OO and the Chin Man's entourage. he probably would like to call them groupies. groupies are volunteers. i suspect the only reason he has a following at all is because he is buying the pizza. folks in our office would volunteer to donate a body part for free food--one of your body parts, not theirs. this time we need a table for nine, even without floppy. floppy has announced his retirement from the active practice of law. he is heading south to the phosphate (not cola) mines of bartow, fla. he claims that he is going in with a private law firm and not into mining or orange picking. pick anyone, it won't be the active practice of law. i hope he gets rich. he better because he is going to have to escape the pits of central fla. at least two times a month. mainframe will be expecting visits and lavish tokens of affection to make up for his absence. you would think his being gone would be gift enough.... mainframe has a taste for bags by coach and jewels by tiffany. floppy is her blind spot in the taste department. on the chance that it might be true love, i've got her in the pool to be the next to quit. even if she doesn't break her lease before it ends in december.
pending the Chin Man's arrival, he has directed me to order two large pies for his crew. one with cheese only and one with cheese and sausage. i front the china-dude $25 for the feast and unbelieveably he coughs it up as soon as he comes through the door. thus, the asian gent contributes to the stereotype of inscrutability. the large pies are as big as manhole covers. his minions munch til they are full and Hugo takes the remainder to tide him over on his trip to the south american part of fla. as predicted in the prior blog, i order a vegan pizza with cheese, black olives and onions. it was more than decent. on my next visit, i will press the vegan definitional envelope and add pepperoni.....
pending the Chin Man's arrival, he has directed me to order two large pies for his crew. one with cheese only and one with cheese and sausage. i front the china-dude $25 for the feast and unbelieveably he coughs it up as soon as he comes through the door. thus, the asian gent contributes to the stereotype of inscrutability. the large pies are as big as manhole covers. his minions munch til they are full and Hugo takes the remainder to tide him over on his trip to the south american part of fla. as predicted in the prior blog, i order a vegan pizza with cheese, black olives and onions. it was more than decent. on my next visit, i will press the vegan definitional envelope and add pepperoni.....
