‘BOM’


Not Quite the Best of Mediterranean

November 18th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Get that green stuff out of here.

Get that green stuff out of here.

It was a night for delivery and looking through LAbite, we found a good-looking Mediterranean place to order from it was called Best of Mediterranean (BOM), which is quite a boast to be put in a name, even for a place in West Hollywood.  Obviously a place by that name had to be checked out.  I was too hungry for a schwarma sandwich, so I ordered the chicken schwarma dinner plate.  This came with hummos, tabouli, rice and garlic sauce.  Knowing that tabouli is some strange mix of greens, I tried to order without it, but the website wouldn’t allow me.  This was a big fail on the part of both LAbite and BOM, because many other restaurants allow you to customize dishes.  Unfortunately, I knew that vegetables would be dying for my sake that night and wouldn’t even have the pleasure of being digested. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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