Night time after the Spa - Page 2

Sightseek · #21 08-16-2007, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by trifecta124

How could anyone not like the Parting Glass. They have over 50 beers on tap & in bottles. After you are piss drunk, you can go in the back room and throw darts all over the place.

To each his own.

paisjpq · #22 08-16-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sightseek

I'd lower it to 28

make that 18.

Sightseek · #23 08-16-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

make that 18.

Did you see Greeley's Conquest is entered on Saturday in the Super Derby prep? (Prelude Stakes)

paisjpq · #24 08-16-2007, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sightseek

Did you see Greeley's Conquest is entered on Saturday in the Super Derby prep? (Prelude Stakes)

I didn't...haven't checked the stable mail lately...thx.

boswd · #25 08-17-2007, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

If you are over 30 then avoid the Parting Glass like the plague. If you want to impress your wives bring them to the cafe in the Adelphi Hotel on Broadway. Much more discriminating crowd.

The same goes for Gaffney's at night. It's WAY too crowded. If you are looking for a nice bar to just chill and relax Parting Glass and Gafney's are not it.
But I would still check out those places during the day if you aren't at the track. There are wonderfull.

Swap Fliparoo · #26 08-17-2007, 11:41 AM

I'm 29 and the Parting Glass is my FAVORITE! Yes, crowded... but filled with racing memorabilia and definitely a beer lover's paradise. I can't find a lot of those beers elsewhere.

GPK · #27 08-17-2007, 11:49 AM

Check with Byk....he can recommend this wonderful place that charges $15 for a house salad and $13 for a side plate of brocolli.

SentToStud · #28 08-17-2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Check with Byk....he can recommend this wonderful place that charges $15 for a house salad and $13 for a side plate of brocolli.

I have a client in Chicago. He and his wife were in Miami Beach so I offered to buy them dinner, their choice of restaurant. We went to a french place called Evolution. We had the "tasting menu." $650 for the 4 of us, including tip. They brought out small pieces of food I could barely see. The chef stopped by the table and asked me to describe my "experience." I told him that where I come from the portions he served are commonly referred to as "bait." After "dinner," drove straight to Wolfy Cohen's Rascal House deli and got a rare roast beef which I happily ate on the drive home. Live and learn.

Swap Fliparoo · #29 08-17-2007, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SentToStud

I have a client in Chicago. He and his wife were in Miami Beach so I offered to buy them dinner, their choice of restaurant. We went to a french place called Evolution. We had the "tasting menu." $650 for the 4 of us, including tip. They brought out small pieces of food I could barely see. The chef stopped by the table and asked me to describe my "experience." I told him that where I come from the portions he served are commonly referred to as "bait." After "dinner," drove straight to Wolfy Cohen's Rascal House deli and got a rare roast beef which I happily ate on the drive home. Live and learn.

OMG... i sure hope he bought whatever it was you were selling him.

hoovesupsideyourhead · #30 08-17-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cajungator26

I liked Clancy's... seemed to be more my cup of tea.

i dont think you ever had a cup of tea...anywhere!!!

Sightseek · #31 08-17-2007, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardus

You're not alone.

A few months ago, my then-fiancee needed to get away for a weekend at a B&B in northwest Connecticut, just south of the Massachusetts border. We drive a few minutes into Mass. for dinner at a well-regarded restaurant.

The waitress brought to our table one of the chefs "creations." He put a small (one bite) piece of roast beef on a Ruffles-like potato chip, and topped it with horseradish, I guess. This was supposed to be a master creation! And the portions sizes would leave a squirrel hungry. I couldn't believe that there was a market for a place like this in the woods of Massachusetts. I think it had a French sounding name, too?

Is there a pattern here?

I do have to say one of the best apps I ever had was roast duck with a very light drizzle of some sort of sweet sauce on a sweet potatoe chip....at least I think it was meant for an app.

#32 08-17-2007, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Check with Byk....he can recommend this wonderful place that charges $15 for a house salad and $13 for a side plate of brocolli.

If I pay that much for a salad, that better be a damn big salad... tomatoes the size of pumpkins dont ya know.

GPK · #33 08-18-2007, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pgardn

If I pay that much for a salad, that better be a damn big salad... tomatoes the size of pumpkins dont ya know.

We didnt stay to find out Pat....Scavs wasn't properly dressed for the occasion.

Scav · #34 08-18-2007, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

We didnt stay to find out Pat....Scavs wasn't properly dressed for the occasion.

Bullshit, if I didn't go pull the menu and take a look, people would have had a coniption fit about $12 onions or whatever the **** they were. I should be considered a SAVIOR

infield_line · #35 08-18-2007, 07:08 PM

I was there. You really need to picture this. We pull up to what could pass for a French country house which is what it was, an incredible old house, white two story, out in the country, with portico, just smells of class and money. So we go in and fill the entry area of the place, and a number of us gradually looked at each other and our sweaty baseball caps, shorts and t-shirts, and subliminally consider the fact that we had not had any alchohol in like 30 minutes and we are probably certain to grab a wine list, after martini's for all 15 of us (my guess) and do serious damage. We looked at the blue blood crowd with many in coat and tie, white table clothes, candles, checked out the menu and did a little math, and said "this is a potential debacle". This was just a classic replay of the Blues Brothers who show up in the french place in Chicago, and get loaded and say "the little girl, how much for the women?"

To the credit of the nice folks who run the place, they were game, but after everyone agreed this was not the place to spread out the form for the next day, I was the one who offered our apologies for their efforts to seat us.

Anyway, all was well, we found a wonderful place that was more than prepared for the DT groove.

I/L

hoovesupsideyourhead · #36 08-18-2007, 09:23 PM

yes and scavs was dressed like a bum....

Danzig · #37 08-18-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Scav

Bullshit, if I didn't go pull the menu and take a look, people would have had a coniption fit about $12 onions or whatever the **** they were. I should be considered a SAVIOR

they must have been some FINE onions!

Scav · #38 08-18-2007, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

yes and scavs was dressed like a bum....

How dare any of you consider wearing Cubs gear as being dressed like a bum. there were drf hats, hawaii shirts, gym shoes with tube socks, next day DRF's in back pockets and Kev's uglyness, I was probably like 3rd best dressed now that I think about it

GPK · #39 08-19-2007, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Scav

How dare any of you consider wearing Cubs gear as being dressed like a bum. there were drf hats, hawaii shirts, gym shoes with tube socks, next day DRF's in back pockets and Kev's uglyness, I was probably like 3rd best dressed now that I think about it

Please....noone....NOONE makes shorts, tshirts and flip flops look as good as I do

Danzig · #40 08-19-2007, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Scav

How dare any of you consider wearing Cubs gear as being dressed like a bum. there were drf hats, hawaii shirts, gym shoes with tube socks, next day DRF's in back pockets and Kev's uglyness, I was probably like 3rd best dressed now that I think about it

hanging around in new york in cubs gear....like they say, there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity!