What's on the menu for today for everyone?
(seems like a long time since I've typed that...
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Our saga of ridiculousness continued into the night!
Just pouring out (but that's really o.k., I've gotten enough sun to recharge my batteries for a while) and driving around a town we're not familiar with, found out Mesa's Cafe Bao has closed!!! The Cafe Bao that I called to make reservations is in Tempe!! Thank God for cell phones and iPads (that work!!) - called and cancelled the reservations and started searching for restaurants near where we were and came up with Blue Adobe Grille.
http://www.originalblueadobe.com/menu.html
And, what a find it was!! What a great place, the entire waitstaff was just so up and helpful and funny. the food was delicious. The day had gone so upside down for us, we both would have been happy to just drink the whole bottle of Layer Cake Primitivo (Zin), but we both ordered appies and a salad.
Anyone still with me here? I know I'm rambling....
We both had Carne Adovada. What it was was a hunk of lettuce with mounds of (fantastic) pico de gallo, Jack/Cheddar cheese, beef or chicken, & sour cream. Just peel off a leaf of lettuce and fill with the goodies and top with the (also fantastic) black been dip which they had served when we arrived.
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Not a pretty presentation, but oh my what a great way to serve lettuce wraps. I'll certainly do this again. Like for dinner today - there was so much left.
O.K., I'm done - that's what we're having.
(seems like a long time since I've typed that...
)Our saga of ridiculousness continued into the night!
Just pouring out (but that's really o.k., I've gotten enough sun to recharge my batteries for a while) and driving around a town we're not familiar with, found out Mesa's Cafe Bao has closed!!! The Cafe Bao that I called to make reservations is in Tempe!! Thank God for cell phones and iPads (that work!!) - called and cancelled the reservations and started searching for restaurants near where we were and came up with Blue Adobe Grille. http://www.originalblueadobe.com/menu.html
And, what a find it was!! What a great place, the entire waitstaff was just so up and helpful and funny. the food was delicious. The day had gone so upside down for us, we both would have been happy to just drink the whole bottle of Layer Cake Primitivo (Zin), but we both ordered appies and a salad.
Anyone still with me here? I know I'm rambling....
We both had Carne Adovada. What it was was a hunk of lettuce with mounds of (fantastic) pico de gallo, Jack/Cheddar cheese, beef or chicken, & sour cream. Just peel off a leaf of lettuce and fill with the goodies and top with the (also fantastic) black been dip which they had served when we arrived.
Not a pretty presentation, but oh my what a great way to serve lettuce wraps. I'll certainly do this again. Like for dinner today - there was so much left.
O.K., I'm done - that's what we're having.
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