Dinner tonight - or last night.

where are the other customers ? or are you really "god in france" and have the restaurant reserved for your personal pleasure ?
that's living it up imo !
hbg

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hamburger wrote:

where are the other customers ? or are you really "god in france" and have the restaurant reserved for your personal pleasure ?
that's living it up imo !
hbg

in this resturante there are many dining areas and the lady Diane and the lady Osso asked specifically for a quite area because they are both near deaf, we sat in the very back room. Also I was, of course, wearing one of my Stetson hats which they recognized as god like.

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The lady Osso ordered a glass of extremely good white Italian wine ( I don't like white wine) this was so good that I could not even pronouce the name, perhaps, with encouragement, she will let us all know what it was and I will buy a case.

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Diane ain't half as near deaf as me, guy. Anyway, they had some not intrusive jazz on for us, we had a good waiter, and the food was delicious.

Though... I could have done without the shrimp, and so could have Dys. Too much. Not that I can generalize but from my wee experience in italy, they go for simple but perfect blends of tastes... thus, unless things have changed, their pizzas are simpler than ours in the US.

The capellini dish reminded me of my favorite dish in Eureka, a fettucine with halved cherry tomatoes and an olive oil, white wine reduction, shallot sauce. The restaurant promoted it with salmon, and the salmon just confused the issue. I always ordered it without...
Same with the shrimp here.
Not that I don't like salmon or shrimp.

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Hmmm, it was a Vernaccia di san Gimignano, but we didn't see the bottle to check the label of the vineyard/producer. I bet they get it from the same place that Jubilation spirits would, but we should check w/Scalo restaurant.

Here's some Vernaccia di san Gimignano links -
http://www.seetuscany.com/food/vernac.htm

http://www.epicurious.com/drinking/wine_dictionary/entry?id=8376 -
well, the one we all tasted (and I wine-hogged) was certainly golden, not pale.

http://www.banfivintners.com/show/xmlsite/xml-standard.xml/xsl-banfivintners%252Freviews.xsl/start_id-nnbghgaoaphgalfpglodmebmcbbkflljffhkielk/
Hmmmm....
well, I liked that glass yesterday even better than the Vernaccia I've had before, which was probably from a major producer - but more from the late eighties, early nineties than now. I think I had the pale kind, that this wasn't.
We need to find the exact label....
It was so good it was... shocking!

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grilled Angus beef burger and a couple of potato patties

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I was hungry when I got back from dance class

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now I'm not

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Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2005

It's a mouthful to pronounce - and ingest. If you like steely, spicy, dry, palate-cleansing white wines, this one delivers. This Vernaccia di San Gimignano (that's the name of the grape variety) offers bold floral, herbal, white grapefruit aromas, followed by lots of body in the mouth, and a delicious bitter quality not unlike Gewurztraminer. This is an ancient grape variety, traced back to Greece, that has been refined with modern growing and winemaking techniques. You have to be a devoted follower of zingy Sauvignon Blancs and bitter Gewurztraminers to love a wine like this. No wimpy palates allowed! Pair it with seafood and spicy Asian dishes.

Yeah!

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The restaurant, by the way, is Scalo, which now shares my top places in ABQ list along with Vivace, also italian - it and Scalo are probably competitors and I haven't eaten at either enough to pick one over the other, so far like both; Noda(?) - very very good Japanese food, Rio Rancho; Indigo Crow, sort of eclectic delicious - that's in Corrales; and an Indian food place, think the name is Bombay Palace, sort of mall adjacent.

Oh, by the way, Outback, pffffffft. Middle american slimo with fast atcha meat. Not to put too fine a point on it.

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ossobuco wrote:

Oh, by the way, Outback, pffffffft. Middle american slimo with fast atcha meat. Not to put too fine a point on it.

Must you be so dismissive, osso, of the US's valiant but fruitless efforts to emulate fabulous Oz Cuisine? :wink:

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Nobody here said Outback was fine dining, just that it was good.

No reason to slander a place that puts that much effort into community service.

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The only time I've ever been to Outback was on a trip to Tucson with Diane and a few others. We went there a number of times. The soup was good, the drinks were apparently potent, the service was good.

Wouldn't rush to find out if there's one here, but I'd go back to the one in Tucson. The other local options were rawther dreadful.

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...a rare glimpse of food elitism from dear osso-b.
If I saw that decor(Scalo) when I walked in...I'd guard my wallet...a lot of frou-frou tacked on to the menu prices.
To paraphrase Freud..sometimes a tasty meal is just...a tasty meal

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panzade wrote:

...a rare glimpse of food elitism from dear osso-b.
If I saw that decor(Scalo) when I walked in...I'd guard my wallet...a lot of frou-frou tacked on to the menu prices.
To paraphrase Freud..sometimes a tasty meal is just...a tasty meal

yeah I hear that but really (I have the ticket in hand) the cost came to, including wine, dessert and the three meals, $50.15.

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just finished our lunch/dinner : some nice aspargus soup that was left from yesterday , some slices of TRUE pumpernickel - the heavy black kind - , sweet butter , some cold cuts , soft brie , real swiss , side-salad and tom juice .

as we were driving home we noticed cars lined up at the take-out window of tim horton's - no line-up at our window - service was quick and food served with a smile Very Happy

- all i had to do , was take the garbage out - i guess that was my "tip" Laughing

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hbg

will have to wait for a couple of hours for tea and cake - a MAJOR hardship !
oh , wait , there are fresh blueberries with a touch of cointreau in the kitchen - perhaps a stopover might be in order :wink: (i'm on good terms with the cook :wink: )

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Perfectly cooked soft boiled eggs hopefully!

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Yeah, I'm a food elitist and not ashamed. That is, I like fresh well cooked food, often from very inexpensive local places, as well as expensive ones, which I get to quite rarely. When I do, I appreciate them.

Oh, that Scalo bill also included iced tea and two coffees. Not sure it would have been much less at some run of the mill place.

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Twas not to be a supper of boiled eggs tonight my friends. The date stamped on them was the 22nd.

Just ordered pizza.

Embarrassed

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

Twas not to be a supper of boiled eggs tonight my friends. The date stamped on them was the 22nd.

Just ordered pizza.

Tis quite easy to check to see if eggs are still good; put each one in a glass of water (any container deeper than the eggs themselves) if they lay down flat they are still quite good, if they stand on end, they are iffy and if they float DON'T EAT.

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What if they're sort of in-between?

(mind you, salmonella would be a pretty useful dieting tool at the moment.)

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King crab legs and baked potato. yum.

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