Friday night is for dinner and drinks with friends. Last night we ratcheted that up a bit last night. Jill put out the call for a Happy Hour, and it was on from that point. Our group would start with Jill, Sarah, Scott & Kim Turner and myself meeting up at West End Tavern.
Our visit to West End Tavern was quite brief. They wouldn't let us have a table (even though they had about 10 open tables) since we were just having drinks and appetizers. They wanted us to move to the bar area. Uh...OK, whatever. We went to the bar area, but the heaters were cooking us so we moved on to a place that seemed to want our business more.
Bacarro was right across the street, and new to me so we stopped in there. We got settled upstairs on the balcony, grabbed a round and then set sail again. 2 establishments, 30 minutes and we were just getting started.
Brief walk to Rhumba, a cool looking always busy place with lots of action. We grabbed a table, some appetizers and a couple drinks. We lasted about an hour or so at Rhumba, and our crowd grew as we picked up some law school buddies of Scott's.
Another 1/2 block walk and we were at place #3, a local Mexican dive called Juanitas. I've been there many times, kind of the greasy spoon Mexican place in town where the slogan is "Praise the Lard". We grabbed a couple tables and some beers & margaritas. Just like always, I ate at every single place we stopped, grabbing a chicken soft taco and even more chips and salsa here.
The fourth stop in our 5 hour tour of Pearl Street would be the Pearl St Pub, which is a dark, cozy little place that feels somewhat out of place on the commercialized Pearl St Mall.
We didn't make it too long here before here before heading off to Pizza Calore, where we grabbed a couple slices of pizza and then headed for the house about 10pm. The young law school kids (early 20s) kept going, but us old folks were tired and ready for bed.
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