Sunday, January 26, 2014

Birthday Dinner #4 at The Twisted Tail


Birthday Dinner #4 at The Twisted Tail


This is a great restaurant with wonderful food. The drink menu is overly complicated. The Dining area is as dark as espresso. The food would taste a lot better if you could see the hard work the chef puts into it. Also the fact that the only bread they could offer for the mussels' broth was the roasted croutons type slices, sucks. 



Another cocktail with a big ice cube


1 bourbon, 1 scotch, and 1 beer


The birthday peoples : Barney Simon and Lisa Zab. We share the 14th.


Grilled Portobello mushrooms


Grilled NJ clams with chorizo vinaigrette


Grilled sausage with beer mustard and Apple slaw


Crawfish Mac 'n' cheese


Mussels, andouille sausage, basil and tomato


Baby lettuce salad, sherry shallot vinaigrette


Amy with her salad with warm goat cheese


Grilled flat iron steak, fingerling potatoes, blue cheese, and wild mushroom jus


Short ribs with risotto and a sunny side up egg


Gulf coast crab cakes with pickled pearl onions and spicy tomato jam


Trio of beignets


Chocolate pudding                                 

Friday, January 17, 2014

Birthday Dinner #3 at Le Rendez-Vous


Birthday Dinner #3 at Le Rendez-Vous
  Le Rendez-Vous
rendezvoustucson.com/

Wonderful classic French menu.



Three warm French cheeses.

Roasted beet salad

Veal medallion with apples and calvados

Beef Wellington

Tasmanian trout

Gran Marnier souffle

Raspberry Charlotte

Cafe Poca Cosa

 

Cafe Poca Cosa

 

In Café Poca Cosa, chef/owner Suzana Davila has placed her imaginative Mexican cuisine with in the lively confines of a truly upscale, yet casual, urban bistro setting.
Davila’s cuisine, which draws upon the wide range of flavors and ingredients indigenous to her native country, provides the ideal opportunity for diners to indulge in a truly unique and memorable dining experience.

After hiking the mountain, a nice Mexican meal.  Family run restaurant. Mom is the chef, daughter is the pastry chef, Son is the bar tender. 

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Amy with her smoky tequila margarita

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Chef's choice plate 1: tamales pie with plantain sauce, chicken breast with yellow pepper mole, skirt steak with roasted tomatoes

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Cute corn tortillas

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Chef's choice plate 2: chicken mole negro, pulled pork, tamales pie with mushroom sauce.

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The afternoon menu

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Happy Hour at Union Public House, Tucson

 

Union Public House

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House made pickle

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Pretzels

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Mexican mule

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Burger with pickled onion, cheese, arugula, and bacon jam

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Mom and the onion rings