January 2009

  • Seattle’s B&O Espresso: More Than Just Great Coffee

    By dubayns on 1/31/09 2:48pm
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    Seattle’s unique B&O Restaurant, a Capitol Hill staple and one of Seattle’s oldest coffee houses, is an excellent place to enjoy a drink with friends or family. Whether you’re looking for an upper, like a café noir or americano, or a downer, like a La Fin Du Monde or a Stella Artios, this restaurant and bar delivers every time. I’ve always had excellent service, although I have heard stories from my friends that they have waited for almost half an hour for their check. I’ve never experienced anything of the sort.

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  • Duke’s Bar & Grill in Scottsdale, AZ, Pleases me Some Ways, Plagues me in Others

    By Michael Jon Lazar on 1/20/09 3:52pm
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    A four hour band rehearsal on the big stage both makes me tired and hungry, and thirsty for a cold, frothy beer. So upon leaving our full dress, stage rehearsal with my new band Scar Lit Soul – we decide that since we are in Scottsdale, rehearsing at Scottsdale Rehearsal Studios that a good bar and grill nearby is in order to eat and drink away our fathoming woes from thirsty gullets and tummies that are grumbling. A few short clicks on the 101 freeway and we find ourselves at the tucked away bar and grill called Duke’s, located off McDowell Road and Miller Road, in the Southeast Complex, at the corner of the complex behind Denny’s.

    I have been here many times and eaten here many times, but tonight I tried to be adventurous. I had already sampled the prime rib sandwich at British Open Pub – see previous entries – and it was wonderful. So I place an order for a pitcher of dark, Moose Drool Ale, and their signature 8-ounce prime rib sandwich.

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  • British Open Pub in Scottsdale, AZ Offers Fine Eats and Drinks – Good Prices Too!

    By Michael Jon Lazar on 1/6/09 11:50am
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    So I find myself on the brink of being very hungry and fathoming what a nice Spiddick’s beer would go down with—a very dark English lager—when I happen upon the British Open Pub in Scottsdale, Arizona, located in the Papago Plaza on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and McDowell in South Scottsdale. The date was January 5th, of this year (2009) and I was waiting to rendezvous with my older brother to attend the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona—where the number three ranked Texas Texans were sparring off against the number ten Ohio Buckeyes. Of course, everybody knows that stadium beer sucks and that the food also sucks, and of course, that you will pay handsomely for such sucking.

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