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- Planning to give Bar Louie a whirl today with some old high school friends. Still just hate that The Tavern is gone. I find stuff I like, and I stay with it, and it pisses me off when it gets screwed up. Ever noticed?
- Speaking of eating out, I have it from an off-the-plane, native-born Japanese woman that Mikawa is the finest sushi in town, and it’s not even close.
- As I type it is looking quite wet for both Alabama and Auburn this weekend.
- Considering whether I want to weigh in on the sorority debacle at the University of Alabama. There are some things I really don’t care for in how it’s been covered. Maybe tomorrow.
- Remember Lazlo Hollyfeld, the guy who lived in the closet in Real Genius? Check this out.
- Jordan in that movie is Judy in Revenge of the Nerds, by the way. Funny, eh?
- Ever consider what it would be like to be blind from birth? That’s one of the more intriguing philosophical situations, to me. If you can see for a bit and then you lose your sight, then you know what color means. Think you ever really get it if you never had it? How could you?
- I have firm and detailed memories of mechanical cash registers. I’m probably a youngest member of the very last generation for which that is true.
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I too will miss the Tavern. Apparently a lot of people had bad experiences there. My complaint was usually that I over budgeted time for a movie and they got us our food too early so I was left with no choice… “Yea I’ll have another one…” We usually sat in the bar area, so maybe the service was better there than the main dining area.
Just the other day, I was actually thinking about an assignment my class was given back in grade school (I’m thinking around 5th grade). We were supposed to describe some of the more basic colors to someone who was born blind. It is quite possibly the earliest recollection I have for getting into a deep philosophical debate with myself. The assignment wasn’t easy (for me).
Ohh I forgot to mention my single Bar Louie experience: It was like Jefferson’s on a bad day. It was on a particularly packed Thursday, and there was a special event going on… but they just didn’t seem to have any kind of reliable system.
That’s just a single data point though. I’m hoping it was a fluke.
Our service was fine. I didn’t realize going in that short shorts on attractive young women was part of the Bar Louie business model. But so be it. I’m accommodating. 🙂
It was a meal of reasonable quality, but nothing particularly memorable. My seared ahi tuna sandwich had fresh avocado and a reasonably tasty tomato, but it was quite salty.
The Tavern was the first real go-to restaurant for me at Bridge Street. I never had an experience south of a B+ in there. I hoped Bar Louie would be its replacement. Sadly, it isn’t.