Corporate
Decisions
At first they didn’t.
Now apparently they do. Ground
has been scraped and steel is being erected to provide us with the fourth (of a
planned five) chain eateries along Rte. 235 North. First of course, was the long anticipated
arrival of the flagship of corporate Italian dining, the Olive Garden, soon joined by the
upscale burger palace Red Robin, and lately one of two Texas style steakhouses.
What used to be green grass (well, okay weeds, but they were
green) is now home of yet another constructions site.
It is quite amazing how fast these things arise once they
begin. And yes, another “coming soon”, the
all too common sign of “development” in our county. This one announces
Another wished for addition to our ever expanding cadre of processed,
market researched, prepared off site, and delivered to you places. And of course “we” do nothing to dissuade
them, the parking lots are always full to the gills.
Which leads me to a little observation about the barrel of
crackers. They seem to always locate
next to a heavily traveled road, interstate, or at big interchanges. Most of the ones I have seen have some
of the parking lot between the building and the thoroughfare. A vast majority of CB parking lots that I have
observed always seem to have that first row full. Would they make the employees park there to
appear busy? Who knows. Just take notice as you motor around the
country. And oh yes, they make you enter
the restaurant through a gift shop. Real
fine dining.
An Indie Update
I think I have reported before that one of our local independent
chefs, Ahmed (originally of the Tides) who currently operates Chef’s American Bistro
in my nearby San Souci, announced changes to the place, and a return to his
roots. Apparently it is in progress
The sign is kind of confusing as I read it, but
nonetheless it announces the change. Seeing "gourmet" and "soul food" in the same sentence strikes me as kind of an oxymoron. Be interesting to see the menu. Oh yeah, add "buffet" to the words I would not expect to see. I suppose it is too "cutesy" to have called it "Kafe Kili...." and I
have seen no movement toward his other objective of rehabbing the Lone Star spot in Lex Park to “Bistro
235”.
And our old McDonalds, new Golden Corral location seems to be worked
on sporadically.
Publications
I was looking at some food blogs just a bit ago, and was
reminded of an experience from our last San Diego visit. I think you remember
that our friend there is a very good cook, and one of her friends gave her a subscription
to Lucky Peach, a recently launched publication of David Chang of MomoFuko, a pretty respected
restaurant. It is in the sort of second
tier of foodie mags, for a more limited market I presume. While there I picked up one of her
issues. This particular one contained a
sort of round table discussion between David, I think maybe Mario (I may be
wrong here) and a couple of other well known chefs. I try to be liberal in this things, but I was
amazed to find a constant string of F Bombs, scatological references, and use
of many words that would not be part of my conversation, especially about
food. Being famous doesn’t give you the
right to be vulgar. Just a thought.
MFO and the MOMSTER are on the road again to Wisconsin, and I am
holding down the digs. Most likely I won’t
be
DFD
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