Where’s it gonna be? Somewhere downtown and bike friendly would be best for me. Also, apparently the Menthols are playing at Louie’s tonight.
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Where’s it gonna be? Somewhere downtown and bike friendly would be best for me. Also, apparently the Menthols are playing at Louie’s tonight.
i like food!
…and downtown would be good for me, too, since I rode my bi-cycle. i dunno if we’ll make it to Louie’s for the big show—gotta pack for roadtrippin’ tomorrow.
Curious
But not bi. I wonder what new options are at the Metro/411? There was a story in the paper. Supposedly there’s a "1940s style diner" there. Plus the usual Metro stuff.
Oh, I have stupid stories for each one of you!
Some of them are even new! But yeah, pick a place. I don’t care.
Just got wisdom toof yanked.
Just got wisdom toof yanked. Novacaine still raging. Warming up the lortabb in the bullpen.
I’ll be at home tonight.
Mentholated
herrrmmmmmm
I must admit that I have serious trepidation about ever trying to get grub at the M*tro again. Ugh. Or….have they hired a kitchen manager that knows what they’re doing, since they’re actually advertising food now? Or do they have the same staff and a larger menu and even more opportunity for disorganization and burning?
Not to be a horrible jerk, but DANG.
Humm...
I think I might have missed the last Met dining experience. Wha’ happen?
I hear that they are putting more effort into food. Are they doing this now, I dunno.
Meat Row
Met-row
We et there last Friday, when nobody was around to go out together. Menu was same as it ever was. So was the food, being as it was off of the same menu they’ve always had. There was only four of us, and one other table, and our server was the also the only bartender (Bad Management 101!), but I can’t speak to the abilities needed to serve a large group. Everything we ordered was pretty difficult to fuck up, but then again, it seems to me that the whole menu is idiot-proof, as far as prep goes. So that was OK. We did get to peek in the almost-open-to-public new space, the 411 Room or whatever. That is open now. It is indeed styled after a mid-century diner, with counter, stools, chrome, etc., plus tables and booths, and/but there was an (empty) buffet/salad-bar-looking thing. Not sure what is gonna go on with that, or whether anything SHOULD go on with that, besides removing it. It’s supposed to be Kalamazoo’s Most Awesomest Blues Hot Spot, or something. (The new space, not the salad bar.) The Gzette probably worded it better. Probably. (I caught a certain someone who is old enough to know better writing "tarter sauce" in a grub article. Too good for spellchecker, are we?) OK, don’t start that! The important thing is that you all know there will be three or four Inks out tonight for chow, depending on the whims of Mr. High Schooler. (Of course if it’s Met., he’s there.) I don’t really have a preference, as long as everybody is happy. Very, very happy.
Regarding Cookie’s comments: I was under the impression that we went there more for logistical reasons than for the chef’s talents. It fit the general needs: good location, room for lotsa people in one group, affordable drink and food prices, uncrowded, friendly staff. But I could, of course, be wrong, and what I just said there is not intended to address whatever problems/complaints we’ve had. It’s just why we started going there, I think. That doesn’t really explain why we sort of stopped going to the Tweakorner Bar, though, so I guess I should throw "meth-free ambience" on the list of criteria.
Regarding Hue: so sorry, but GOOOOOOOOO lortabbb!
I'm going to Menthol Louies.
I like to visualize them wearing footie pajamas. It makes me giggle.
Yes, the Metro food was never the reason to go there, that is true. I don’t know if they’ve improved or not. What are the other options?
Mmm... tarter sauce...
Maybe the EAT MEtro isn’t ready for primetime.
And it looked like whoever wrote the story on it was drunk.
Other choices?
And for all the pruffreeders in the house, heres one for you’re amusement; THATS not punctuation I can believe in!
;^)
Corner Bar - "Too Methy"
Metro - Bad?
Louie’s - Sexist camo tank tops
Sh*kespeare’s - Hold the spit!
This is exactly how your choices will eventually get whittled down to The Cracker Barrel or Old County Buffet.
(Your Grandpa used to like Dog N’ Suds, but Grandma thought the Suds weren’t sudsy enough.)
"Ooooh! Lookitt those big checkers over by the unfinished rocking chairs!"
Poking Mama Bear with a stick,
Tree
Ooooh
CRACKER BARRELL! CRACKER BARRL!! They got a good catfish sammich there.
I don’t mind Louie’s. I had kind of forgotten that there’s food there! We haven’t been there in a long time.
M*tro just….I get exasperated by the 1-hour lapse between the first person eating and the last person eating and….and….I dunno. I liked em when they first opened and had things like tuna noodle casserolle (sp?), but I guess that cook must’ve quit.
I like Shakespeare’s okay, too—it’s just gotten so crowded that it’s hard to go there. Sniff. They have giant pizzas that you can order and abandon. It’s exciting. DO NOT ORDER THE SALMON SAMMICH! It is a pressed hockey p[uck.
We never go to the liquored coney island, which could be really funny. That place is small, though. That OUzou’s place where you can order ouzo’s food or get coney island. I probably shouldn’t be eating no coney island.
Sprout, too, but we just went there last night and wallowed in noodle bowls.
HA!
That’s exactly right. Ah, the joys of convincing 14 people to agree on one place.
BTW, I personally figure every restaurant has meth somewhere in the kitchen, and tank tops are a necessary tyranny no matter what.
Now, off to run errands…
pinata
there’s that goofy-ass pinata out there on drake, too. Buyt that’s way out on drake. Type-o-graphically challenged,
Dingey
So, where are we going again?
I haven’t left for errands yet. There was cleaning. It’s a good thing I’m not home often during the day, or I’d fritter my life away wiping up smears and spills in the sunshine. Also, I’m justifying slacking by the fact my elderly, shaky cat needs me right now.
Louie’s has been good most of the time. We could go there, some can stay, whatever.
Really, I honestly don’t care where we go. I would go (and have gone) to the most crowded, awful food establishment just to talk to y’all.
Louwee's
I have voted. It is convenient.
louie's louie's
should we just cawl it? Louie’s? Eh? Burgers (medium-to-well-done)? I seem to remember it being pretty okay, food-wise. COWBOY SAUCE. Titter.
Louie's x 2
Me and Dadmin have voted. Maybe we could sit outside? Unrelated: We once took the kids there when Jum Jum had a friend over. A vegetarian friend. A preteen female vegetarian friend. I was getting irritated by their mothlike movements from outside to their table by the banquettes (again and again), so Jum finally informed me of her friend’s animal-friendly views and how she was freaked out being inside Louie’s. I of course thought it was hilarious. Because I’m going to hell anyway.
please stop making me laugh at work...
…as I am stuck covering the front desk. Oh, poor lil’ vegan.
You know… I’ve seen what
Sounds maybe could look like it’s probably most likely Louie’s. Which is great. I haven’t eaten there. I do want to see the Sweatballs. Er, Menthols. So I will try to “hit that.”
please do
The "door" is "wide open." "Knock" before "entering," and please let it "hit you on the ass" on the way "out."
I really have absolutely no idea what I’m saying. I’m too distraught by the GILF comment.
I, too, like the longdong grill. We have wondered why large crew never goes there. It’s a bit pricey, but so’s real dinner at the OP, know whut mean?
Looks like Sarah Palin would
Looks like Sarah Palin would be okay with Louie’s tonight…
I SAIIID, please stop makin' me laugh at work!
That bear got crabs.
Dusty?
[quote=dingey]
That bear got crabs.
[/quote]
I thought it was a torn ligament?
stop! stop!
Youse guys are killin’ me!
one down ...
We lost a dining comrade, people. We are down to two, with the hormonal dark horse still in the running as a possible third dining companion. What’s the time? The time to get swill? Sikhs? Sikhs-dirty?
I gotta tell you...
… I’m with the little vegan girl on this one. I was ok with the international house of creepy taxidermy and glass eyeballs up until the polar bear. Really, Louie? A freaking dead polar bear in the dining room? Did you really have to go there?
That, and the food is pretty "eh". Once you go Sprout, you really can’t go back to the GFS without some grumbling. However, the company and conversation of the fabulous Leppo crowd far outweighs the negatives. Louie’s it is.
And Angie, you
And Angie, you so right.
LorFab, I says.
Please DO feed the bears!
yo!
Maybe we can get a table in the front! Or, as Angie say, on the "pat-yo."
Also, I am hoping that we can be there earlier rather than later (?) I’ll just be pedalling from work. Anyone? Anyone? What’s yer take, butterbake?
If people are pushing for later, I’ll just take a steamy bike ride.
welllllllll
Wait….polar bear? WAs there a polar bear last time I was there? The taxidermy is pretty out of control, and it seems insane to stick it in a bar situation, knowing how expensive that stuff is!
OUT!
Got a costly weekend planned, so I’ve decided to bow out.
Try not to get all Mentholated on me.
(Anybody got doins planned fer Monday?)
Bears and Tardies
That big ol’ polar bear has been there for a while. It’s in the left-side far corner of the big room, in the VIP section behind the velvet rope. And, yes, what Jules said. Srsly?! And they got some sort of warning on the menu about what they’ll do to you if they catch you touching the ‘dermy. I think they will have you kilt and stuffed and mounted. None of that in a good way.
I guess it’s too late for us to be early, but we coulda been. Now we are only contenders for on time.
We have NO Laborless Day plans. You guys? Er, maybe another thread for this should be happening.