Your Mother would be proud!
Mothers do a lot of things for their children, from washing their clothes, to teaching them good values, to not letting them hold Glenn Danzig’s hand. For a bar named after one who did enough to...get a bar named after her, head to McGowan's Oakhurst Pub.
Replacing Palate, McGowan's is a comfort meals/craft-beers meeting place bearing the maiden name of the owner's apparently quite loveable mom, designed to look 100+ years old via a white subway-tiled open kitchen, hanging search lamps from a Navy ship, and a horseshoe-shaped, barnwood-bottomed/copper-topped bar whose drafts're all micros, because the owner wants to "support the little guy" -- something Rhea Perlman's been doing for almost 30 years. First-rounders include garlic wings w/ spicy yogurt dip, poblano-peppered Aztec corn soup, and PEI mussels in white wine, or get bigger with a gouda-toppable chuck burger, sammies like the pressed Prosciutto apple, or spaghetti w/ shredded cheddar & Cincinnati chili known as the "Classic 3-way", which tends to involve two girls and a Jimmy Stewart movie on AMC. There's also a range of homestyle dinners like pot roast and gourmet mac & cheese (orecchiette w/ white béchamel sauce), plus less-homey dishes like macadamia-crusted sea scallops, and chicken & shrimp in piri piri pepper brandy sauce, which hasn't been this hot since "The Boy Is Mine."
Suds-wise it’s 24 bottles from Italy's Birra Moretti Pilsner to high-ABV-ers like the brown Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron, while the aforementioned all-craft drafts include Schmaltz Coney Island Lager, Ommegang Hennepin Farmhouse Saison, and an amber ale from Duck Rabbit, an animal your children will never understand, especially after Glenn Danzig makes you tell them not to. Oh, why do you so despise comprehension, Glenn Danzig?!?
They're now open for lunch starting at 11:30, and've also just added specialty cocktails like the Vesper and Silver Fizz.
Please visit their home page for a delightful beer selection and menu!
http://www.palatewinebar.com/
Hope to you see you guys there for a pint!
Go Get'em!!!
The Versatility of Sport...and a Little Bit of Fashion
Why do you [INSERT YOUR SPORT HERE]? If I asked you to list the reasons why you do what you do, chances are good that your list would overlap with my own. Maybe it’s a stress reliever? Maybe it’s what you do to stay fit? Maybe it’s your job? Or maybe you just love to compete? I’m soccer guy trapped in a runner’s body, so I do both, and each partly for the reasons I listed – except for the job part…I was never that good at either. My point is that sport is many things to many people. It’s a common ground out of which friendships are cultivated. It’s a ready-made topic for water cooler discussions. It gives you something to list under “Personal Interests” on your resume (do people still do this?). Heck, I’ll even use it as an icebreaker with the opposite sex (“Hi. You may not know it to look at me, but I can run really, really fast.”). Yes, sport can be all these things. It can also be a reason for you and your friends to get together and do something…well, dumb.
We here at Racemates are all, to a large extent, cut from the same cloth – a cloth that has a love of competition, athletics, and profound silliness as its fibers. Thus, it was no surprise to me an email surfaced several weeks ago, trailing with it a chain of responses that kept my Blackberry buzzing for the better part of an otherwise useless Monday. The email proposed a means to deftly combine the joy of athletic competition with the humility of that often accompanies the aforementioned silliness. The competition is this: each member of the group has a specific physical challenge that he or she must attempt. Challenges are individually assigned and must be unique to the competitor. Success must be readily quantifiable and not be subject to interpretation (this is where it gets difficult). Everyone must complete his or her individual challenge within a specified time frame. Pretty run of the mill so far, I agree. Ahem…now, anyone that fails to complete his or her individual challenge must suffer the humility of silliness, which in this particular challenge, manifests itself in the form of…READ MORE
