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I haven't been to Ann Sathers in a while. Would anyone be up for that? Or Clark's Diner? The only downside is that they are both pretty loud.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

But Lula is pretty amazing... Maybe I should just pick a place and time and see if anyone can make it?

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Meeting up with folks at Uncommon Ground was fun that time, even though the food wasn't that spectacular. It's nice to see you guys in the light of day for a change o' pace, as opposed to a dark bar.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah. We also met up at Heartland one morning.

Talkin' to myself about brrruuuunch... Talkin' to myself about bruuuunnncchhh....

My eyes shoot open by 8am usually on the weekend. I'm just too excited about free time to waste it sleepin'. I do, however, almost always end up taking a nap at some point in the day. I want to get out and about.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am an early bird, which I guess explains why I'm the only one posting on here at 7am, while a ton of people seem to post after midnight.

Ok, I guess that's a hint for me to go to work now.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Victory's Banner is one of those places where I really have to balance my patience with my desire for their food. I also have to have come out on the right side of the brunchy goodness/intolerable wait for that one since there's not much room to wait once you get there. But when all is right with the world, VB is spectacular.

Jesse, the last time we went to Heartland it was almost okay. We got a table before I could really get into any free radical newspapers. But then we had to give up on jelly, salsa, ketchup, and something we actually ordered because our server somehow never managed to come to our table again.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm awake! And now I'm hungry!

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't like Ann Sather. Their sticky buns are great, obv, but their savory brunch food is really just so so, I think.

Tweet Let's Eat is lovely for brunch.

― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, PF is hating on the new CoCoRosie album today. I quite like it.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard the new one, but their old stuff annoys the hell out of me.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

We've met up with you guys at Tweet Let's Eat. I liked it, though the neighborhood was kind of scary. Or maybe it was more sad than scary. We had to walk around about 3 or 4 crazies on the way back to the car, which was less than a block away.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's not scary, that's entertainment. I love the guy who does cigarette tricks.

― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Regarding the "biscuits": they are hard lumps of whole grain held together by plaster of paris. They are like my mom's biscuits, and that's not such a good thing.

As far as bad service, they are pretty consistently slow. It's funny when the service is so bad that you are glad when the worst thing that happened is that you don't get your jelly and ketchup.

I don't expect to be treated like royalty, and I recognize that every server and restaurant has off days (look what I do for a living!) but Heartland is consistantly unnaccountably sloooow. Their seating is jacked up (I hate waiting while there are open tables) and the servers seem paradoxically always in the weeds and lacking a sense of urgency.

But I will probably go back, but it falls on my list of places to frequent each time I visit.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I didn't get an xpost--

Sarah, there is a halfway house right across the street.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, where is your favorite place for brekkies/brunch?

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I made this vegetarian pho recipe last night. It was pretty good.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I usually go to Tweet.

A guy at work was telling me that he went to M. Henry and it was great (loooong wait, of course), but a woman at another table had a birthday and one of the women who worked there came out and sang really boisterously, whistled, and did a dance around the dining room!

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Orange too. Balsamic reduction belongs in all meals BECAUSE IT'S WONDERFUL.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been to orange before. It didn't get great reviews online.

One brunch spot I actually hated was Brett's in Roscoe. We only ate there once. They brought us this basket of SO much bread that, for the first time in my life, I was grossed out by bread.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven's Gate (VB) is really good too.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

One place Nick basically hates that I like is Milk & Honey. The staff are a bunch of biotches and you have to bus your own table and it's crowded as hell... BUT the food is good and they have patio tables. Also, it's close to our place.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I think we should descend on Victory's Banner at 10:30 on Sunday. Who is with me??

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there is a "10:30 AM" on Sundays.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I was waiting for you to say something genius like that. Yes, I would love to have brunch. Maybe even a late breakfast.

Jesse, get up and come with us, lazy.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say that it's the weekend and I shouldn't have to get up that early on my day off, but the opposite is true. I work weekends, so I am up late on Saturday, so I sleep in (11 or 12) on Sunday and then work in the evening.

Still, I might make it.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

The last, and only, time I was at Ann Sathers we had a waiter who would say he was going to go check on something and then never return. He'd come back to the table next to us, but then just wander away again without giving us any information. He also seemed disturbingly unconcerned about the nasty crustiness that we found on all five of our water glasses.

― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

ew. Is that the Belmont location, or the Andersonville? I've never had trouble at either, but that's no good at all.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Belmont location. Also, please make my officemate stop fighting/making up/doing household finances on the phone. We have an agreement to avoid personal calls in the office (she's on her cell phone)...but apparently she's chosen to define this as "any personal phone calls, excluding my girlfriend." Her stupid phone calls with her girlfriend are the reason I suggested the stupid rule.

― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Neutral.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want some fucking hash browns right fucking now.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?

Man, I have no idea. It's impossible to listen to it without thinking it's cheezy and cliche, but it's also impossible to tell if that's the song's fault.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Bleh. I'm going to be dozing off today, I just know it. Played a weird show last night at the K1net1c Pl@ygr0und -- we had a 10-minute set early in the evening and then a half-hour set at like midnight -- and then came home and typed up a few Kate Bush reviews and wrote a long e-mail to someone to whom I volunteered to give feedback re his EMP paper on the changing meaning and context of the song "Hallelujah." Crawled into bed at 2:30.

I'm glad that my late-night post didn't prove to be as contentious as I thought it might. I don't want to argue about restaurant service and customer expectations.

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

See, I never heard the full song until I was in my 20s so I was just listening to it and was able to think "Man, this is awesome." Except for the lyrics.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

When I am listening to the radio in the car I usually listen to NPR talk programs, but I think I just like the sound of talking. When I hear music I don't like I will change the station and as often as not I will leave it on any station where any talking that is not a Christian--this includes long commercial breaks.

I can't tell you how many times I am surfing the radio, hear commercials and stop, and only when another terrible song comes on a few minutes later do I realize that I have contentedly been listening to ads for 3-5 minutes.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

When I was in 9th grade I shoplifted a cassette of advertisements from the '50s and '60s.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

the solo in that is scorching but the first half of that song.... well, it seemed better when i was in middle school.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Except for the lyrics.

yes, well... welcome to led zeppelin.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, we're playing this dealie tonight if anyone wants to hang out. It should be fun, and it's for a good cause:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/428187731_7a0542add0_o.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

And listened to it on my Walkman over and over. In between the beatings by my peers.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have high cholesterol.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

My mouth is shaped like a rabbit.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading a book about word salads.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to work.

― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was the first LZ song I heard and I remember lying in bed and thinking, "huh, I guess he IS an awesome drummer!" Then my drum teacher got me waaaaay into them and it's probably my least-listened to Zep song since then.

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxxxp I should also say that for our midnight set there were maybe 10 people in the room. MAYBE. We didn't promote the show because it was being put on by this organization that promised us they had a built-in crowd (and we're playing the Abbey Pub in a few weeks anyway), but obv. they didn't have enough of one. I actually don't care about that too much. The venue is less than a mile from from my apartment, and I drank for free all night. Still tired, though.

Also: EL found out last night that someone who was in the band she was in in high school (who was, in fact, older) is now in the Decemberists. A guy whose name I recognize, even. (Not C.M.) But even though she likes the band, she doesn't read about music, so she never wondered, "Hey, I wonder if C.F. is the same C.F. I was in that band with?" Instead, she had to find out from her parents, who called her after reading an article in the local newspaper and said "Did you know C.F. is in this band you might know about?"

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah same here, I always skip it. It's just a bit... much.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone else listening to Panda Bear as compulsively as I am?

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nope.

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

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